Wating - Rate limit Reset - infinite

[woodyDevTech]

I have a problem when running gallery-dl:
command:
gallery-dl.exe https://twitter.com/fulgrownbabyman/status/1731450840613875732
I get this:

This is only happening on one machine, other machines are working, and I'm not sure how to fix this, tried may gallery-dl options, any suggestion?

[mikf]

This is only happening on one machine, other machines are working

Are they all using the same external IP and/or account?

gallery-dl's Twitter settings should have no influence on this. This is most likely Twitter blocking this specific computer/Twitter account/IP.

[woodyDevTech]

But I can open twitter normally on the browser and it works, any possible for cashing with gallery dl? Coz i noticed that twitter does not work with "chromium" yet works with other browsers. Would that affect gallery-dl somehow?

[mikf]

gallery-dl uses a Firefox user agent by default.

I just noticed that you are using a guest token. That's probably the problem, together with everything else. gallery-dl's way of acquiring one of these tokens is not how browsers do it these days, so that may be a reason.

Give it a throwaway account to work with.

[woodyDevTech]

I tried with a username and password, i got same respond, if this is what you mean. If the machine does not have firefox would this be a problem?
Thank you for your fast response!

[mikf]

The login process might not work when you are rate limited.
Login in a browser and give gallery-dl its Twitter cookies.

If the machine does not have firefox would this be a problem?

I don't think so.

[woodyDevTech]

Tried this but for chrome:
gallery-dl --cookies-from-browser chrome https://twitter.com/fulgrownbabyman/status/1731450840613875732 --verbose

Response was as follows:

[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.26.4 - Executable
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.8.10 - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.31.0 - urllib3 2.1.0
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files []
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://twitter.com/fulgrownbabyman/status/1731450840613875732'
[twitter][debug] Using TwitterTweetExtractor for 'https://twitter.com/fulgrownbabyman/status/1731450840613875732'
[cookies][debug] Extracting cookies from C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies
[cookies][debug] Falling back to temporary database copy (OperationalError: unable to open database file)
[twitter][warning] cookies: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies'
[twitter][info] Requesting guest token
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.twitter.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.twitter.com:443 "POST /1.1/guest/activate.json HTTP/1.1" 429 69
[twitter][info] Waiting until 09:55:19 for rate limit reset.

Any other suggestion?

[woodyDevTech]

by the way it works for firefox:
gallery-dl --cookies-from-browser firefox https://twitter.com/fulgrownbabyman/status/1731450840613875732 --verbose

but not for chrome, so this means we need to have firefox right? And login there? no other work around?

[mikf]

[twitter][warning] cookies: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies'

See #4195 and #4894 (comment).
Chrome blocks access to its cookie database while it is running.