rule34 Cloudflare challenge

[timeg7100]

hi i have some issues with rule34 now ever time i try to download it give me this:

[rule34][warning] Cloudflare challenge [rule34][error] HttpError: '403 Forbidden' for 'https://api.rule34.xxx/index.php?page=dapi&s=post&q=index'

the image im trying to download is this : https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=7996681

[randumblai]

wanna bump this, because this appears to now be a general problem for FurAffinity as well, even when using cookies. cf_clearance seems to be the most obviously relevant cookie, but doesn't seem to do anything after updating my cookie file to include it.

[taskhawk]

Seems to be happening with Danbooru for some images as well.

Edit: They are having bot issues so they are blocking all bots at the moment :/ https://danbooru.donmai.us/forum_topics/25845

[mikf]

To get around a "Cloudflare challenge":

• visit the site with your browser and let it solve the challenge
• export its cookies
• configure gallery-dl to use those cookies and the same user-agent string as the browser they are from

If there's only one browser installed, the following should work (replace "firefox" with whatever browser you're using):

gallery-dl --user-agent browser --cookies-from-browser firefox "URL"

When there's no Cloudflare challenge for your browser and/or there's no cf_clearance cookie, you are out of luck.

The CF block on FurAffinity usually resolves itself within a few hours/days and I'm not getting one for rule34 either.