need help with cookies

[spidersinsidemyroom]

I'm new to coding so a lot of the language being used goes over my head. But I somehow got the gallery-dl to work on most sites, but not on https://www.furaffinity.net/ where it says you need cookies in the "Authentication" (it works on SWF pics, but not on NSWF even when I write my user and password in the CMD).

I've read the Readme about cookies and I'm trying to understand what to do, but I'm completely lost.

If someone could write a very noob-friendly step-by-step of what to do I would appreciate it!

[mikf]

There are two ways to accomplish this. The first one requires you to install a browser addon, the second one might be a bit more complicated and needs a config file.

1. Exporting cookies as cookies.txt

• install a browser addon that can export your browser cookies as a cookie.txt file (the README lists Get cookies.txt for Chrome and Export Cookies for Firefox. There might be others)
• Go to furaffinity.net, make sure you're logged in, and use said addon to export the cookies for that site to a file, lets say C:\Users\username\cookies.txt
• Run gallery-dl as usual and also specify --cookies "C:\Users\username\cookies.txt" as arguments

2. Manually adding cookies to your config file

• Go to furaffinity.net, make sure you're logged in, and press F12
• In the Developer Tools window, click on "Storage" in the top
• Copy the values of the a and b entries and add them to the furaffinity block in your config file like so

{
    "extractor": {
        "furaffinity": {
            "cookies": {
                "a": "584dda11-b0bd-1234-5678-abcdef123450",
                "b": "1e694418-fd02-4d52-b61d-64a2a792cd65"
            }
        }
    }
}

These cookies don't ever expire, so you'll only have to do this once.

The furaffinity login form is protected by a google captcha by the way, which is why a regular login doesn't work for this site.

[spidersinsidemyroom]

thank you so much! very kind of you!