From 5b8ad403dd4d1737f72be1f58030a8cd06476b26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:40:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [xenforo] decode '/goto/link-confirmation' links (#8964)

---
 gallery_dl/extractor/xenforo.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/xenforo.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/xenforo.py
index 32a5609d..dc25fa15 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/xenforo.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/xenforo.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from .common import BaseExtractor, Message
 from .. import text, exception
 from ..cache import cache
+import binascii
 
 
 class XenforoExtractor(BaseExtractor):
@@ -65,6 +66,9 @@ class XenforoExtractor(BaseExtractor):
                     if ext[0] == "/":
                         if ext[1] == "/":
                             ext = "https:" + ext
+                        elif ext.startswith("/goto/link-confirmation?"):
+                            params = text.parse_query(text.unescape(ext[24:]))
+                            ext = binascii.a2b_base64(params["url"]).decode()
                         else:
                             continue
                     data["num"] += 1