diff --git a/download_ffhq.py b/download_ffhq.py
index b626ebce7..b6d300d7c 100755
--- a/download_ffhq.py
+++ b/download_ffhq.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import itertools
 import shutil
 from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict
+import os.path as osp
 
 PIL.ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True # avoid "Decompressed Data Too Large" error
 
@@ -54,22 +55,31 @@
     'tfrecords': dict(file_url='https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1SYUmqKdLoTYq-kqsnPsniLScMhspvl5v', file_path='tfrecords/ffhq/LICENSE.txt',     file_size=1610, file_md5='724f3831aaecd61a84fe98500079abc2'),
 }
 
+
+headers = {
+        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36"  # NOQA
+    }
+
+home = osp.expanduser("~")
+
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def download_file(session, file_spec, stats, chunk_size=128, num_attempts=10, **kwargs):
     file_path = file_spec['file_path']
     file_url = file_spec['file_url']
+    file_url = file_url.split('?')[0] + '?export=download&confirm=no_antivirus&' + file_url.split('?')[1]
     file_dir = os.path.dirname(file_path)
     tmp_path = file_path + '.tmp.' + uuid.uuid4().hex
     if file_dir:
         os.makedirs(file_dir, exist_ok=True)
 
+
     for attempts_left in reversed(range(num_attempts)):
         data_size = 0
         try:
             # Download.
             data_md5 = hashlib.md5()
-            with session.get(file_url, stream=True) as res:
+            with session.get(file_url, headers=headers, stream=True) as res:
                 res.raise_for_status()
                 with open(tmp_path, 'wb') as f:
                     for chunk in res.iter_content(chunk_size=chunk_size<<10):
@@ -118,6 +128,17 @@ def download_file(session, file_spec, stats, chunk_size=128, num_attempts=10, **
             if not attempts_left:
                 raise
 
+    cache_dir = osp.join(home, ".cache", "ffhq_download")
+    cookies_file = osp.join(cache_dir, "cookies.json")
+
+    with open(cookies_file, "w") as f:
+        cookies = [
+            (k, v)
+            for k, v in session.cookies.items()
+            if not k.startswith("download_warning_")
+        ]
+        json.dump(cookies, f, indent=2)
+
     # Rename temp file to the correct name.
     os.replace(tmp_path, file_path) # atomic
     with stats['lock']:
@@ -164,6 +185,10 @@ def download_files(file_specs, num_threads=32, status_delay=0.2, timing_window=5
         print('All files already downloaded -- skipping.')
         return
 
+    cache_dir = osp.join(home, ".cache", "ffhq_download")
+    if not osp.exists(cache_dir):
+        os.makedirs(cache_dir)
+
     # Launch worker threads.
     spec_queue = queue.Queue()
     exception_queue = queue.Queue()
@@ -208,6 +233,20 @@ def download_files(file_specs, num_threads=32, status_delay=0.2, timing_window=5
 
 def _download_thread(spec_queue, exception_queue, stats, download_kwargs):
     with requests.Session() as session:
+
+        # Load cookies
+        cache_dir = osp.join(home, ".cache", "ffhq_download")
+        cookies_file = osp.join(cache_dir, "cookies.json")
+        if not osp.exists(cookies_file):
+            session.get('https://www.google.com')
+            cookies = [(k, v) for k, v in session.cookies.items() if not k.startswith("download_warning_")]
+            with open(cookies_file, "w") as f:
+                json.dump(cookies, f, indent=2)
+        with open(cookies_file) as f:
+            cookies = json.load(f)
+        for k, v in cookies:
+            session.cookies[k] = v
+
         while not spec_queue.empty():
             spec = spec_queue.get()
             try: