[TWITTER] mtime-from-date does not work well with syndication

[AdamSaketume26]

i had issue with twitter module not setting the modified time for some posts when using --mtime-from-date. I use cookies file but also do set twitter syndication to true in case there are issues. I realized now that my cookies file was either rewritten or I never saved properly (but i could get protected accounts no problem so idk) so gallery-dl kept falling to the syndication api.

When using syndication api the images saved never changed modified date to when the post was made. Videos werent affected it seems.

When I updated my cookies and removed syndication api option, --mtime-from-date worked fine for photos and videos no problem.

I think using twitter syndication option has problem extracting date for images.

[AdamSaketume26]

works no problem if using both syndication and cookie option, but syndication alone fails and if cookie is invalid and uses syndication it also fails

[AdamSaketume26]

i noticed now that cookies keep overriding and becoming invalid but idk why. maybe twitter api rate limit blocks me or its because i use twitter logout option in case of blocks and that is what overrides

[mikf]

What version of gallery-dl are you using?
The issue with broken date metadata and --mtime-from-date not working for syndication results was fixed in v1.23.1 (#2920). Upgrading to that will at least fix this one issue.

Your cookie file being overwritten can be controlled with the cookies-update option, but it being enabled should not cause any issues, least of all produce a broken cookies.txt file. What addon/userscript are you using to export your cookies?

[AdamSaketume26]

1.23 i think so i need to update ty

for cookies my cookies are valid to begin with but sometime after running more than once i noticed cookies was overridded with cookies that did not have my login. i did cookies update to false and it fixed that issue

[mikf]

i noticed cookies was overridded with cookies that did not have my login

That's why I was asking which software you used to extract your cookies. I'd like to reproduce this myself and fix this potential bug.

From what I can tell, the cookies.txt file produced by the addon I am using (Export Cookies) works as it should, so want to see if some other cookies.txt format from something else would cause problems.

[AdamSaketume26]

i used edit this cookie on chrome browser and changed cookie format to netscape

to repeat, it works the first time maybe a little more after but at some point it changed my cookie file to be logged out. i dont know when it happened or why.