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[Pixiv] Metadata caption field empty on some works that have captions #5191

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Meta-Didact opened this issue Feb 11, 2024 · 1 comment
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Preface:
Pixiv work metadata includes a field caption that is the description that the artist has given the work.

Issue:
Occasionally a work that has a caption when viewing in a browser, but when downloaded with gallery-dl the field in the metadata output is an empty string ''.

The issue seems intermittent. Sometimes on redownloading the field is correctly populated.

Remedy:
As the issue comes and goes it likely is an issue on Pixiv's side and thus cannot be solved by gallery-dl but I felt it worthwhile documenting it here so that if someone is affected they may want to try download the affected works again.

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mikf commented Feb 13, 2024

This is a known issue (#4327 (comment)).

Only solution would be not using the App API, like PixivUtil2
or some form of fallback (#4327 (comment)).

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