From e0599d35dcfa8c2ccd79f3d88753c4b63a6cc0f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [civitai] fix 'AttributeError' when a file's post was deleted
 (#7860)

---
 gallery_dl/extractor/civitai.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/civitai.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/civitai.py
index 8d6a1252..e4a81ee8 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/civitai.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/civitai.py
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ class CivitaiExtractor(Extractor):
                         data["post"] = file.pop("post")
                 if self._meta_post and "post" not in data:
                     data["post"] = post = self._extract_meta_post(file)
-                    post.pop("user", None)
+                    if post:
+                        post.pop("user", None)
                 file["date"] = text.parse_datetime(
                     file["createdAt"], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ")