Is patreon broken due to captcha now?

[left1000]

So I added my cookie session_id and that meant I stopped getting the "[patreon][warning] no 'session_id' cookie set" error... BUT I now get the following error:

[patreon][warning] Cloudflare CAPTCHA
[patreon][error] HttpError: '403 Forbidden' for 'https://www.patreon.com/user?u=somenumber

If patreon requires captcha on all logins now does that just break gallery-dl? or is there a way to fix this?

[Fukitsu]

Try adding Google cookies

[left1000]

What's the format for that? These links don't cover google.

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/gallery-dl.conf
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/gallery-dl-example.conf
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst

[mikf]

The idea is to export cookies with a browser addon, see https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl#cookies.

You might find something that works in issue #1117. Most of the time, rolling back to urllib3 version 1.25.11 helps.

[left1000]

Ah I see the instructions say you only need the session_id but actually I should follow the advice of that one guy in that thread and use:

"
Since this issue seems to still be present as of 1.16.4 (compiled exe), the workaround I found to work was to copy not only the session_id, but also the __cf_bm and __cfduid cookie, along with the correct User-Agent. This likely will not be a good method for people running this on a schedule or daemon, but in a pinch, it works.
"

as well as your own advice to set:

"
"browser": "firefox"
"

sidenote: I had been just grabbing cookie data from f12+lookingforit I don't think that would effect the issue though, but I was only grabbing an incomplete cookie because I wasn't sure which values gallery-dl would care about in specific for patreon.

[biznizz]

Since this is fairly new on the same topic as #1117, I'll give my update here.

Updated all dependencies to the latest version though pip (except idna, since 3.1 is incompatible with requests), including urllib3 to 1.26.3

Updated gallery-dl to latest dev build.

Added browser info to patreon extractor settings in config for a structure of

"patreon": {
	   "browser": "firefox",
            "cookies": {
                "session_id": "session id cookie"
            }
        },

And have used multiple User URL's (whole timeline of Patreon user) and Posts (individual posts in said timeline), and have not gotten a single Cloudflare Captcha issue yet.

Will report if there's any issues going forward.

[left1000]

Yep! Works! Don't even need the extended cookie, just the added line "
"browser": "firefox",
"
fixed it.