[Errno 13] Chrome cookies are not able to be used? Firefox seems fine

[zxgbs]

I used Chrome cookies and got "Errno 13," but Firefox worked fine.
The command I used and the verbose output:
$ C:/Users/123/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python310/Scripts/gallery-dl -d D:/Downloads/gallery-dl -r 2.5M --sleep 2.0-3.5 --sleep-request 2.0-3.5 --filesize-max 22.5M https://fantia.jp/posts/1704263 --verbose --cookies-from-browser chrome
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.25.5
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.10.6 - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.25.1 - urllib3 1.26.12
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['%USERPROFILE%\gallery-dl.conf']
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://fantia.jp/posts/1704263'
[cookies][debug] Extracting cookies from C:\Users\123\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies
[fantia][warning] cookies: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Users\123\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies'
[fantia][debug] Using FantiaPostExtractor for 'https://fantia.jp/posts/1704263'
[fantia][warning] no '_session_id' cookie set
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): fantia.jp:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://fantia.jp:443 "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 None
[fantia][debug] Sleeping 3.11 seconds (request)
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://fantia.jp:443 "GET /api/v1/posts/1704263 HTTP/1.1" 200 None

Edit: I'm using Chrome ver. 114.0.5735.134 ; Firefox ver. 110.0.1

[mikf]

[Errno 13] Permission denied

Make sure you have permission to access the Chrome profile folder it tries to access. Pass a different profile name or a path to the profile folder if the default is not the one you want, e.g. --cookies-from-browser chrome:PROFILENAME

[zxgbs]

I can access the Chrome folder, and the default cookie database is the only one on this PC.
Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks.

[mikf]

Do you get a different behavior with yt-dlp?

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome BaW_jenozKc

[mikf]

This appears to be a recent Chrome "feature": yt-dlp/yt-dlp#7271, yt-dlp/yt-dlp#7290

[zxgbs]

oh I was just trying to figure out how yt-dlp works, the two links seems interesting

[atefalvi]

I have used Edge instead of chrome and it seems to be working.

[shinji257]

You can add --disable-features=LockProfileCookieDatabase to the shortcut for Chrome/Brave/Edge for the time being until they decide to depreciate it.

As suggested in referenced bug reports this appears to be a performance improvement patch rather than anything to do with blocking external cookie access.

Edit: There is a module called shadowcopy that can workaround this issue by getting it from VSS on Windows. The issue is that you have to grant admin rights to the application for them to be able to do so. That was suggested to yt-dlp and it works when the file is locked.

https://pypi.org/project/shadowcopy/