[Hitomi] 403 errors

[styler00dollar]

gallery-dl "https://[...]" --verbose
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.20.3
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.10.1 - Linux-5.15.16-1-MANJARO-x86_64-with-glibc2.33
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.26.0 - urllib3 1.26.7
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://[...]'
[hitomi][debug] Using HitomiTagExtractor for 'https://[...]'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): [...]:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://[...]:443 "GET /type/[...] HTTP/1.1" 206 100
[hitomi][debug] Using HitomiGalleryExtractor for 'https://[...].html'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://[...]:443 "GET /galleries/[...].js HTTP/1.1" 200 2051
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://[...]:443 "GET /gg.js HTTP/1.1" 200 5323
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): [...]:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://[...]:443 "GET /images/[...].png HTTP/1.1" 403 153
[downloader.http][warning] '403 Forbidden' for 'https://[...].png'

gallery-dl --version
1.20.3

[Hrxn]

Looks like a site change... again

[yindaheng98]

same error, how to fix?

[mikf]

I don't think this is fixable. Hitomi might have blocked any access to the original files and made it only possible to download the .webp or .avif versions.

Maybe there is a combination of HTTP headers and cookies that prevents these 403 errors, but I haven't found anything yet.

[Hrxn]

FWIW, Hitomi has a download button for every gallery/set giving you a zipfile, apparently the images are .webp files as well.

[mikf]

These ZIP files had the original JPEG or PNG files in them when I checked a month ago. The issue tracker on Hitomi-Downloader also says that it's only possible to download .webp or .avif anymore, so that's that.

The changes in 86fa412 now make it download the .webp files by default. Guess I'll close this issue.