[artstation][error]HTTP request failed: 403: Forbidden for url tried updated pyOpenSSL

[BBlayne]

Everything was working fine yesterday but stopped today.

When I try to download from Artstation I am met with this error:

[artstation][error] HTTP request failed: 403: Forbidden for url: https://www.artstation.com/users/ralphballesteros/quick.json

Here is verbose:

C:\Users\MyUserName>"W:\PathToGalleryDL\gallery-dl.exe" --verbose https://www.artstation.com/ralphballesteros
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.21.1 - Executable
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.7.9 - Windows-10-10.0.19041
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.27.1 - urllib3 1.26.9
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://www.artstation.com/ralphballesteros'
[artstation][debug] Using ArtstationUserExtractor for 'https://www.artstation.com/ralphballesteros'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.artstation.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.artstation.com:443 "GET /users/ralphballesteros/quick.json HTTP/1.1" 403 None
[artstation][error] HttpError: '403 Forbidden' for 'https://www.artstation.com/users/ralphballesteros/quick.json'

Result of show pyOpenSSL:

C:\Users\MyUserName>pip3 show pyOpenSSL
Name: pyOpenSSL
Version: 22.0.0
Summary: Python wrapper module around the OpenSSL library
Home-page: https://pyopenssl.org/
Author: The pyOpenSSL developers
Author-email: cryptography-dev@python.org
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Location: c:\users\MyUserName\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python310\site-packages
Requires: cryptography
Required-by:

I usually use the exe via the Windows CMD prompt; I went and installed Python to install pyOpenSSL and then used pip to attempt to install gallery-dl that way but just running "gallery-dl" or "gallery-dl.exe" without quotes in the CMD prompt after adding it to PATH didn't seem to work in case it needs the python version of gallery-dl or something; I don't really know what I'm doing after checking the previous issues on the topic.

[biggestsonicfan]

Getting the same on my end with Linux ver:

[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.21.2-dev
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.8.13 - Linux-5.17.3-1-default-x86_64-with-glibc2.34
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.27.1 - urllib3 1.25.11
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://www.artstation.com/proado/albums/all'
[artstation][debug] Using ArtstationUserExtractor for 'https://www.artstation.com/proado/albums/all'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.artstation.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.artstation.com:443 "GET /users/proado/quick.json HTTP/1.1" 403 None
[artstation][error] HttpError: '403 Forbidden' for 'https://www.artstation.com/users/proado/quick.json'

[austblack88]

Same issue here.

[Hrxn]

Then it's a site change..

[biggestsonicfan]

Then it's a site change..

I mean it might be, but I can access the JSON files just fine in my browser. Possibly blocking some sort of useragent or something?

[Twi-Hard]

It works fine for me. I do use a custom user agent.

[slowthgt]

Having the same issue, using a custom useragent to mimic the latest firefox version didn't help

[Hrxn]

If you haven't tried this already... (it's a good habit in general):

Set the "user-agent" setting in your config to exactly the same User-Agent that gets used by your browser.. (the browser you use to browser, sign-in and use ArtStation with)

[TahliaKat]

I'm having the same issue, changing the user-agent didn't help.

I've tried with 3 different browser user agents and the 403 error still appears. However, going to the site on the browsers works.

[Twi-Hard]

Hmmmm..
I commented out the custom user-agent so gallery-dl uses the default and I was still able to download. I have my computer scheduled to update the artists I've saved once per day so I doubt you're blocked for using it too much.

[TahliaKat]

I was able to solve my issue.

I added "browser": "firefox" to the artstation portion of the config file (using a firefox user-agent) and now it seems to work.

[biggestsonicfan]

I was able to solve my issue.

I added "browser": "firefox" to the artstation portion of the config file (using a firefox user-agent) and now it seems to work.

This solved the issue for me! 🥂

[BBlayne]

I was able to solve my issue.

I added "browser": "firefox" to the artstation portion of the config file (using a firefox user-agent) and now it seems to work.

Also solved the issue for me! You're a Genius! Should I close my issue? I dunno what Github's etiquette is.

[mikebatnz]

I was able to solve my issue.

I added "browser": "firefox" to the artstation portion of the config file (using a firefox user-agent) and now it seems to work.

Awesome!

I was using a Safari useragent and adding "browser": "safari" also fixed it for me

"artstation": {
"browser": "safari",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15"
}

[BBlayne]

I was able to solve my issue.
I added "browser": "firefox" to the artstation portion of the config file (using a firefox user-agent) and now it seems to work.

Awesome!

I was using a Safari useragent and adding "browser": "safari" also fixed it for me

"artstation": { "browser": "safari", "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15" }

Oh is that where the user agent bit is supposed to go? What do I put for Chrome?

[mikebatnz]

Oh is that where the user agent bit is supposed to go? What do I put for Chrome?

Try:

"artstation": { "browser": "chrome", "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.41 Safari/537.36" }

[BBlayne]

Oh is that where the user agent bit is supposed to go? What do I put for Chrome?

Try:

"artstation": { "browser": "chrome", "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.41 Safari/537.36" }

Alrighty I tried this but sadly didn't seem to work. Only "browser": "firefox" seems to work. No need for user-agent for whatever reason.

[mikf]

The latest release uses "browser": "firefox" by default, so I guess this can be closed.