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[JoshMHardy]

Guidance on using cookie string. Without quote marks, the spaces and semi-colons in the cookie string are interpreted by the shell.

[patrickkfkan]

Hi, thanks for the PR. I note that you put "Cookie: patreon_device_id:..." as example. However, the "Cookie: " part is the request header name and not part of the cookie value itself. I have not come across a cookie that includes spaces, so I'm not sure if it is in fact necessary to enclose it in quotes. Would you be able to verify this?

[JoshMHardy]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply!

I followed your instructions to copy the cookie in Firefox and the "Cookie:" was copied with it. Here is how it looked when copied to the clipboard (I've replaced the strings with zeroes to anonymise my cookie):

Cookie: patreon_locale_code=en-US; patreon_location_country_code=AU; patreon_device_id=00000000000000000000000; __cf_bm=0000000000000000000000; analytics_session_id=00000000000000000000; __ssid=0000000000000000; session_id=000000000000000; patreon_locale_code=en-US

The issue I had is with BASH interpreting the spaces as separate strings. The cookie input becomes just the first string "Cookie:" and the second string is interpreted as the URL e.g. "patreon_locale_code=en-US"

josh@ubuntu:~/$ patreon-dl --cookie Cookie: patreon_locale_code=en-US; patreon_location_country_code=AU; patreon_device_id=00000000000000000000000; __cf_bm=0000000000000000000000; analytics_session_id=00000000000000000000; __ssid=0000000000000000; session_id=000000000000000; patreon_locale_code=en-US https://www.patreon.com/posts/65221988

patreon-dl v2.3.0 Patreon Downloader

Error processing options:  Invalid URL: patreon_locale_code=en-US
 See usage with '-h' option.
--config-file: command not found

However, when I use quotes (either single or double quotes), the entire cookie is parsed and it works as expected:

josh@ubuntu:~/$ patreon-dl --cookie "Cookie: patreon_locale_code=en-US; patreon_location_country_code=AU; patreon_device_id=00000000000000000000000;
 __cf_bm=0000000000000000000000; analytics_session_id=00000000000000000000; __ssid=0000000000000000; session_id=000000000000000; patreon_locale_code=en-US" https
://www.patreon.com/posts/65221988

patreon-dl v2.3.0 Patreon Downloader

Jan 22 19:26:41: info: Created PostDownloader instance with config: : {
  type: 'post',
  targetURL: 'https://www.patreon.com/posts/65221988',
  postFetch: { type: 'single', postId: '65221988' },
  outDir: '/home/josh/',
  useStatusCache: true,
  dirNameFormat: {
    campaign: '{creator.vanity}[ - ]?{campaign.name}',
    content: '{content.id}[ - ]?{content.name}'
  },
  filenameFormat: { media: '{media.filename}' },
  include: {
    lockedContent: true,
    postsWithMediaType: 'any',
    postsInTier: 'any',
    campaignInfo: true,
    contentInfo: true,
    previewMedia: true,
    contentMedia: true,
    allMediaVariants: false,
    comments: false
  },
  request: { maxRetries: 3, maxConcurrent: 10, minTime: 333 },
  fileExistsAction: { content: 'skip', info: 'saveAsCopyIfNewer', infoAPI: 'overwrite' },
  dryRun: false
}

Proceed (Y/n)?

[patrickkfkan]

Right, I can see the spaces now within the cookie value.

What browser are you using to obtain the cookie? In my case, I'm using Firefox and simply right-clicking on the "Cookie" header and selecting "Copy Value" will omit the "Cookie: " part. Did you by any chance highlight the entire header (dragging across or triple-clicking it) before selecting "Copy Value"?

I think, to avoid ambiguity, we should just state "<cookie>" instead of "Cookie: patreon_device_id:...". Just in case users like me who didn't get the "Cookie: " part in the value will not have to wonder why that's the case.

[deema-404]

hello I’m having trouble understanding how to use this service, I want to access I Patreon post without a paywall is that possible?