Feature idea: Enable user login on bobx.com

[ThunderX2020]

Download from bobx.com has stopped working. Every single image that gets downloaded is actually a caption that states we need to be a BobX member to download. Looks like we now need the ability to sign in to bobx.com from gallery-dl.

https://imgur.com/doswWRk

[mikf]

Should be working again without logging in. As for right now BobX accepts any session cookie, regardless if it came from an actual login or if it's just randomly generated.

[ThunderX2020]

Thanks for checking mikf!

Unfortunately the issue is still occurring now. Every single file in every single folder that is downloaded is a 275KB JPG with that annoying caption. Indeed I can view the pictures from a browser session without having to be logged in, but download from gallery-dl isn't working.

[ThunderX2020]

I think I figured out what's happening. We can view the low-res images without being logged in but we cannot view the high-res pictures, which are the ones that gallery-dl fetches.

Example (NSFW)

OK
http://www.bobx.com/av-idol/bunko-kanazawa/bunko-kanazawa-721692.html
NOT OK
http://www.bobx.com/av-idol/bunko-kanazawa/large-bunko-kanazawa-721692.html

[mikf]

Just to make sure: you are using the latest git snapshot of gallery-dl, right?
Because downloading the gallery from your example links with b28bd1c work fine on my end, even when using a public proxy, and the BobX CI test also ran successfully.

[ThunderX2020]

Ah! I'm using the standalone Windows executable. Has this update reached the v1.10.6 build yet? If not, that explains it, and I'll wait for the updated build.

Thanks!

[mikf]

This update hasn't been put into any executable or Python package yet, but what you can do to get it to work with the current version is setting a BobXUser cookie in gallery-dl:

• create a new empty text file
• put the following inside

  # Netscape HTTP Cookie File
  
  .bobx.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	2196573020	BobXUser	1574493020.94.217.209.212.2196573020.729237
  

• load it with --cookies when downloading from BobX

  $ gallery-dl --cookies "path/to/cookiefile.txt" http://www.bobx.com/av-idol/bunko-kanazawa/photoset/graphis-2003-05-0-2-8.html
  

[mutter1978]

Is working now!, Just how @mikf said.
Thanks alot guys.

[nvmnghia]

Is the website closed now?

[mikf]

@nvmnghia seems like it. It wasn't really accessible for about a month now, and the one forum thread I found also confirms that: https://scanlover.com/d/7607-what-happened-to-bobx-com