oh yeah for sure cohost-dl goes way into the weeds and there were a lot of extra steps to take to get it running, the creator made a guide for how to get it running on windows. make sure you are swapped into the blog you are trying to back up at the time and remember to edit the config file for every blog swap (don't be me, the Certified Computer Dumbass™ who forgot to do it and then couldn't figure out why the thing wasn't doing the thing at first).

i'm hoping the official exporter will be a little more user friendly if/when it comes to fruition