Help with syntax?

[XanthosGambit]

Hello everyone.

So I've never really used a CLI-based program before, and I'm not sure if the command I've been trying is malformed or if I've somehow broken the program. Anyway, I've tried both

gallery-dl --cookies "C:\Users\smart\Documents\Gallery-DL\cookies.txt" -d "F:\" "https://www.furaffinity.net/favorites/xanthosgambit/"

and

gallery-dl --cookies "C:\Users\smart\Documents\Gallery-DL\cookies.txt" -d "F:\" "https://www.furaffinity.net/favorites/xanthosgambit/"

but each one throws a generic "you're missing the URL argument" error at me.

I wonder if it has to do with the "cookies.txt" path? Maybe that's not correct and it's screwing everything else up? I know this is probably a basic question but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Thank you.

EDIT: I managed to sort of understand how the JSON files work, enough that I could make my issue non-existent.

[mikf]

The problem here is the "F:\", specifically backslash + quote. The second quote gets escaped and you end up with F:" https://www.furaffinity.net/favorites/xanthosgambit/ as argument for -d and no URL.

You'd need to use the path without quotes F:\, with a forward slash "F:/", or with an escaped backslash "F:\\". There are probably even more ways of getting this to work. Welcome to the wonderful world of escape characters ...