Update app.py

app.py

@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ headers = {
         "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" # Example
 }
 
+cookie_info = os.environ.get("COOKIE_INFO")
+
 def get_json_data(url):
     url_split = url.split('/')
     if len(url_split) < 5 or not url_split[4].isdigit():
@@ -501,14 +503,6 @@ For more details, including weighting, merging and fusing LoRAs, check the [docu
 
 
 def get_creator(username):
-    # Ensure COOKIE_INFO is set as an environment variable
-    # Example: "__Host-next-auth.csrf-token=xxx; __Secure-next-auth.callback-url=yyy; __Secure-next-auth.session-token=zzz"
-    cookie_info = os.environ.get("COOKIE_INFO")
-    if not cookie_info:
-        print("COOKIE_INFO environment variable not set. Cannot fetch creator's HF username.")
-        gr.Warning("COOKIE_INFO not set. Cannot verify Hugging Face username on Civitai.")
-        return None # Cannot proceed without cookie for this specific call
-
     url = f"https://civitai.com/api/trpc/user.getCreator?input=%7B%22json%22%3A%7B%22username%22%3A%22{username}%22%2C%22authed%22%3Atrue%7D%7D"
     try:
         response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=10)