Is rule34hentai.net not working?

[subash-ganesan]

Hello,

I have been trying to download from rule34hentai.net and so far has been unsuccessful. The last time i tried was sometime ago and it was working then but now not sure if the issue is with my side

These are what i got so far

gallery-dl --version 1.27.4

gallery-dl --cookies-from-browser vivaldi --write-tags --download-archive rule34_hentai_archive.txt "https://rule34hentai.net/post/list/Ciri/1"

[cookies][warning] Failed to decrypt cookie (AES-CBC Unicode) [cookies][info] Extracted 3191 cookies from Vivaldi (18 could not be decrypted) [rule34hentai][warning] Cloudflare challenge [rule34hentai][error] HttpError: '403 Forbidden' for 'https://rule34hentai.net/post/list/Ciri/1'

though i have solved the cloudfare challenge in browser, i get above my reference: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/4844#issuecomment-1872529821

[Hrxn]

Uh, depends, if latest Vivaldi already includes recent changes from Chromium preventing cookie extraction as usual.

e.g. see here: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10927#issuecomment-2332602512

You could try it with the Chrome extension from said comment to extract cookies into a file to use with gallery-dl

[subash-ganesan]

Hmm I tired exporting the cookies with that extension and then feeding it with --cookies but it didnt work. Did it from Incognito window as well. Not sure if me using Vivaldi is the issue as several have mentioned it worked for them

[mikf]

Are you setting your browser's --user-agent somewhere? You need both User-Agent and solved cookies to bypass the challenge.

[subash-ganesan]

that i have missed. After adding "--user-agent browser" to it, I'm able to download. Thank you guys!