From a8b60b2bd987ee397f5688a91a3b110893ff55c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:45:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] change default cache directory for unix systems

Use either $XDG_CACHE_HOME or ~/.cache (if the former isn't set)
and store potentially sensitive cookies and tokens in a user's
home directory and not in the world-readable /tmp.
---
 docs/configuration.rst |  3 ++-
 gallery_dl/cache.py    | 12 ++++++++----
 gallery_dl/version.py  |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 819874c5..e47b2807 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -1492,7 +1492,8 @@ cache.file
 ----------
 =========== =====
 Type        |Path|_
-Default     |tempfile.gettempdir()|_ + ``".gallery-dl.cache"``
+Default     * |tempfile.gettempdir()|_ + ``".gallery-dl.cache"`` on Windows
+            * (``$XDG_CACHE_HOME`` or ``"~/.cache"``) + ``".gallery-dl.cache"`` on all other platforms
 Description Path of the SQLite3 database used to cache login sessions,
             cookies and API tokens across `gallery-dl` invocations.
 
diff --git a/gallery_dl/cache.py b/gallery_dl/cache.py
index 25b66607..1cee4a29 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/cache.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/cache.py
@@ -189,13 +189,17 @@ def clear():
 
 def _path():
     path = config.get(("cache", "file"), -1)
+    if path != -1:
+        return util.expand_path(path)
 
-    if path == -1:
+    if os.name == "nt":
         import tempfile
-        import os.path
-        return os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), ".gallery-dl.cache")
+        cachedir = tempfile.gettempdir()
+    else:
+        cachedir = util.expand_path(
+            os.environ.get("XDG_CACHE_HOME", "~/.cache"))
 
-    return util.expand_path(path)
+    return os.path.join(cachedir, ".gallery-dl.cache")
 
 
 try:
diff --git a/gallery_dl/version.py b/gallery_dl/version.py
index 33d19595..20797434 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/version.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/version.py
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
 # published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
-__version__ = "1.9.1-dev"
+__version__ = "1.10.0-dev"