[Patreon] 403s and 401s

[SpaceAceMonkey]

I am having an issue similar to the issues described in #5731, #6140, #6239, and #6241. Requests to https://www.patreon.com/CreatorName, and https://www.patreon.com/CreatorName/posts always result in 403 errors after CloudFlare challenges.

None of the solutions suggested in those issues work for me. Changing browser options in order to modify the fingerprint doesn't work. Using different browsers doesn't work. Using the Patreon application user agent doesn't work.

I have tried using both the latest stable version and 1.27.7-dev.

The only thing that sort of works is pointing gallery-dl to https://www.patreon.com/home as mentioned in #6140 , which seems to bypass the CloudFlare challenge, but which then results in a 401 response for each attempted download. I have tried using cookies from both Brave and Firefox, both of which are logged in to my Patreon account. Even if this worked, I'm not sure if it would get all posts from the creator I am interested in.

[cookies][info] Extracted 2938 cookies from Firefox

[cookies][info] Extracted 2179 cookies from Brave

There are no reports of failure to decrypt any of the cookies with either browser. Initially, that was an issue with Brave, but once I specified the keyring, that problem disappeared.

I have also tried leaving 12+ hours between attempts as suggested by someone in one of the linked issues.

I don't know if it was mentioned in those other issues, but the Patreon URLs you see in your browser address bar include a /c/ portion that gallery-dl doesn't seem to expect. If you include the /c/ as in https://www.patreon.com/c/CreatorName/posts, gallery-dl reports that it cannot find that creator. Presumably, it thinks the creator is c. I imagine this is handled behind the scenes by 30x redirects, but it seemed worth mentioning.

I am using ubuntu 24.04.