diff --git a/gallery-dl.conf b/gallery-dl.conf
index 3cb8d403..3395dd52 100644
--- a/gallery-dl.conf
+++ b/gallery-dl.conf
@@ -33,7 +33,12 @@
         "gelbooru":
         {
             "pattern": ["g(?:elbooru)?[.:-_](\\w.+)"],
-            "filename": "{category}_{id:>07}_{md5}.{extension}"
+            "filename": "{category}_{id:>07}_{md5}.{extension}",
+            "cookies":
+            {
+                "user_id": null,
+                "pass_hash": null,
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py
index 87244904..e5c4f8e7 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 """Extract image-urls from http://gelbooru.com/"""
 
 from .booru import XMLBooruExtractor
+from .. import config
 
 info = {
     "category": "gelbooru",
@@ -26,6 +27,9 @@ class GelbooruExtractor(XMLBooruExtractor):
         XMLBooruExtractor.__init__(self, match, info)
         self.api_url = "http://gelbooru.com/"
         self.params = {"page":"dapi", "s":"post", "q":"index", "tags":self.tags}
+        self.session.cookies.update(
+            config.get(("extractor", info["category"], "cookies"))
+        )
 
     def update_page(self, reset=False):
         if reset is False: