One designer’s site of articulated robot and mecha models at toymakr3d.com — Transformers, Megazords, Gundams and the like, most of them free, the rest sold. Its model pages are anyone’s to read; its files, free ones included, go only to a signed-in user, and your liked products are yours alone to see.
| At a glance | |
|---|---|
| Sign-in | Your own Toymakr3D sign-in, per user, for the files and your likes |
| Thingport Grab | Recommended — it sends your sign-in as you visit toymakr3d.com |
| FlareSolverr | Not used |
| Imports | Models; your liked products, synced too; its categories |
How it works
Section titled “How it works”Toymakr3D is a shop with no API of its own, so Thingport reads its pages, as a browser would.
- Models. Paste a model link (
https://www.toymakr3d.com/product/<id>-<name>) in Thingport, or import it from the model page with Grab. A model is one print of the zip Toymakr3D hands over, unpacked into its files. Its page carries the description, the printing settings from its Setting tab, the whole gallery and the designer. - Free models. They still need your sign-in: Toymakr3D sends anyone else to its sign-in page. Each import counts as one download in your Free Download History, as it would if you pressed Download yourself.
- Paid models. Thingport imports one you have already bought, from your account. Toymakr3D watermarks a buyer’s files and builds the zip when it’s first asked for, so an import started while that is still running says so — wait a minute and import it again. Thingport never buys anything.
- Likes. Your liked products are Toymakr3D’s only list, and only you can see them, so Thingport reads them with your sign-in. Import them in one go, or sync them so new ones follow.
- Categories. A model’s page doesn’t say which of Toymakr3D’s categories it is in — only its category listings do — so Thingport reads those listings and keeps what it found for a few hours. Its “All Products”, “Free Download” and “Premium” menu entries are price buckets rather than subjects, so they’re left out of the mapping.
- Browse tab. With your sign-in, the sync dialog lists your liked products.
Setup: your sign-in
Section titled “Setup: your sign-in”Per-user (Configuration → Providers → Toymakr3D). Toymakr3D signs you in with two cookies: toymakr3dcom_session,
and a remember_web_… cookie that signs you in again once that one runs out. Thingport keeps both.
Easiest: Thingport Grab
Section titled “Easiest: Thingport Grab”With Thingport Grab allowed on Toymakr3D, opening toymakr3d.com while you’re signed in connects your account, and sends a new sign-in whenever you sign in there again.
Manual: copy it from your browser
Section titled “Manual: copy it from your browser”- Sign in at toymakr3d.com.
- Open DevTools (
F12, orCmd+Option+Ion macOS) and go to the Network tab. - Reload the page, click any request to
www.toymakr3d.comand find its Cookie request header. - Copy the whole header value.
- Right-click Toymakr3D in Configuration → Providers, choose Connect and paste it.
Compare with other providers
Section titled “Compare with other providers”| Provider | Sign-in | Thingport Grab | FlareSolverr | Collections | Likes | Sync | Print profiles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yours, for the files | Recommended | Not needed | No | Yes5 | Yes | No | |
| Your cookie | Recommended | Optional | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| None | Optional1 | Recommended | Yes | Yes1 | Yes | No | |
| Admin’s App Token | Optional | Recommended | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Admin’s API key, yours for paid | Optional | Recommended | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| Yours, for a day | Recommended2 | Not needed | Bookmarks | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Yours, for likes only | Required | Not needed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Yours, for a week | Recommended | Not needed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Yours | Recommended | Not needed | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Yours, renewed for a year | Recommended | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Your API key + browser sign-in | Recommended3 | Not needed | Printlists | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yours, for likes only | Recommended | Not needed | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Yours, for the files | Recommended | Not needed | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| None | Recommended4 | Not needed | No | No | No | No | |
| Yours, for saved projects only | Recommended | Not needed | Saved | No | Yes | No | |
| Yours, for the files | Recommended6 | Recommended | Wishlist | Yes6 | Yes | No | |
| Yours, for the files | Recommended | Not needed | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yours; Pro for community models | Recommended | Not needed | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| Yours, for the files | Recommended | Not needed | Collections, wishlists | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yours, for the files | Recommended | Not needed | No | Yes7 | Yes | No | |
| Yours, for the files | Recommended | Not needed | Bookmark collections | No | Yes | No | |
| Yours, for your collections and likes | Recommended | Not needed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Yours, for your collections and likes | Recommended | Not needed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
- Your private Printables collections and your likes are read by Grab, while you’re on Printables.
- Snapmaker’s sign-in lasts a day and only Grab renews it; without Grab you paste a new one every day.
- Cults3D’s files need your browser’s Cloudflare clearance, and Thingport on the same IP address as that browser.
- A gallery item that is a CAD project, rather than a library part, has no stored mesh: OwlCAD’s editor builds its file, so Thingport Grab exports it on owlcad.com.
- Toymakr3D hands a model’s files to signed-in users only, the free ones included, and shows your likes to you alone.
- CGTrader shows your likes and wishlist to you alone, and its downloads sit behind AWS’s bot check, which Thingport passes with Grab’s token from your browser or FlareSolverr’s own.
- Fab365 hands a model’s files to signed-in members only, the free ones included, and shows your favourites to you alone.
Known problems
Section titled “Known problems”Open bug reports about Toymakr3D in Thingport, on GitHub.
Notes from users
Section titled “Notes from users”Tips, workarounds and news about Toymakr3D from people who use it. Something broken in Thingport? See Known problems.