403 Forbidden error when downloading images from Weibo (with Username+Password) -SOLVED: WORKAROUND!!!

[spectrefps]

Hello. I am trying to use gallery-dl to bulk download art from various artists on Weibo. However, I keep getting the '403 Forbidden' error when running it (even tried it on specific artwork url instead of just on their main gallery url. Oddly enough, I can go into each specific artwork's url and manually download them individually ('save as' works fine). I am also signed in to my account and updated the session ID cookie in the config file. Still no luck getting gallery-dl to download any of their artworks.

Any ideas?

[spectrefps]

UPDATE: Found a workaround (in a closed issue thread: #3188). The trick was to add -o downloader.http.headers.Referer="URL_FOR_ART_OR_GALLERY" in front of the art/gallery url. Then it worked fine. Here is the example used in that thread for how the whole command line looks like:

gallery-dl -o downloader.http.headers.Referer="https://weibo.com/1907840615/MbvNTd5Eh" https://weibo.com/1907840615/MbvNTd5Eh

[mikf]

The weibo extractor sends Referer headers by itself since v1.24.0 (e3abab8).
What gallery-dl version are you using that you are still getting these errors?

[spectrefps]

The latest version of the .exe I downloaded was from late February. I'll grab the newest .exe version.