Errors with cookies and downloading & sorting from a twitter page

[voreman567]

So I am having an error with gallery-dl where on some extractors (Most notably twitter) I get the following:
"[twitter][warning] cookies: [Errno 13] Permission denied: './gallery-dl/cookies' "

Which is the folder in which I store my cookies, I don't know why I get this error, but along with that error, if I don't get the 403 error, I get the following:
"[postprocessor][error] 'metadata' initialization failed: TypeError: expected str, got NoneType"

I'm assuming it has to do with my config, as I have a postprocessor part of the twitter config, I dont really fully get it but I copy pasted it from one of my other ones that works in the config and edited it as I wanted the downloader to put retweets into a folder inside the artist's folder. for instance, Normal media: "User/gallery-dl/twitter/Artist/" and retweets: "User/gallery-dl/twitter/Artist/Artist Retweets"

My final error I believe is related to the first one, when I try to download from https://twitter.com/kinkyvorechick/media, I get the following message: [twitter][error] 403 Forbidden ("Not authorized to view the specified user.")
I'm assuming this has to do with the fact that the permission is denied from cookies so it cant see them and let me download their media.

If anyone can help me solve any of these issues it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
config - Copy.txt

[mikf]

[twitter][warning] cookies: [Errno 13] Permission denied: './gallery-dl/cookies'

Try chmod +r or something. Are you perhaps using the Snap package?

[postprocessor][error] 'metadata' initialization failed: TypeError: expected str, got NoneType

This here is "wrong":

            "postprocessors": [{
                "retweets": true,
                "skip": true,
                "name": "metadata",
                "mode": "custom",
                "directory": "Retweets-{user[name]}",
                "filename": "{author[name]}-{date:%Y-%m-%d}-{filename}.{extension}"
            }]

"mode": "custom" needs a format / content-format.
If you are trying to save retweets into their own directory, that isn't easily doable at the moment.

[twitter][error] 403 Forbidden ("Not authorized to view the specified user.")

That user's tweets are private. This should be fixed when you get your cookies working.
Speaking of, you can add your Twitter auth_token cookie directly into your config file.

[voreman567]

Its been awhile since ive installed, how do I check if im using the snap package? Also i tried "gallery-dl chmod +r" and it said no suitable extractor found like this:
[1/2] chmod
[gallery-dl][error] No suitable extractor found for 'chmod'
[2/2] +r
[gallery-dl][error] No suitable extractor found for '+r'

[rautamiekka]

gallery-dl chmod +r is unsupported/illegal syntax as far as g-dl is concerned, you most likely meant chmod +x gallery-dl. Also, although this is your ticket, you need to make a new ticket for that cuz it's unrelated.

The only sure way is to run

sudo pip uninstall gallery-dl

to uninstall the PyPi version if you wanna use the Snap one.

[mikf]

how do I check if im using the snap package?

Take a look at the output of which gallery-dl. I'm just asking because a Snap might not have the permissions to read other files in your home directory etc.

Also i tried "gallery-dl chmod +r"

chmod is its own program, used to modify access permissions of other files. +r would give read permission to all users.

[voreman567]

Do I have to use the snap version of gallery-dl to fix this? and for the proper chmod command "chmod +x gallery-dl", It doesnt recognise it, I searched it up and saw chmod was a unix thing, so whats the windows version of that? Im running windows 10.

[mikf]

Oh, sorry. For some reason I thought you were on a Unix platform.
You don't need to worry about chmod or Snap then.

I just took another look at your config and realized that ./gallery-dl/cookies is most likely not a file but a directory, given you are using paths like ./gallery-dl/cookies/deviantart.com_cookies.txt for other sites.

Remove the global "cookies": "./gallery-dl/cookies", at the top of your config and add cookies or username&password for Twitter to be able to access that private user.

[voreman567]

Ok then thanks! It worked, Im still having trouble with the postprocessing thing, but im gonna get rid of it in the twitter section, in the future will there be a way to sort out regular tweets and retweets?

[ExeArco]

in the future will there be a way to sort out regular tweets and retweets?

I too was wondering about this as it seems that there is contradictory information about whether or not you can separate retweets.

#1481
I was wondering about this in my issue here.