Bad cookies file or wrong class name - Coursera platform redesign

[rteslaru]

./coursera-dl -u -p wh1300-2012-001 -f "mp4 pdf"

Downloaded http://class.coursera.org/wh1300-2012-001/lecture/index (218312 bytes)

Found 0 sections and 0 lectures on this page
Probably bad cookies file (or wrong class name)

-- I keep getting this error on any course I try downloading. I opened the lecture/index URL in Safari and it displays just fine. As raszpl pointed out, the most likely cause is the platform redesign.

[raszpl]

its not osx related. Coursera did redesign today.
"We are rolling out a redesign of our platform today, including improvements to the navigation bar and forums. Please report any issues in the "Technical Issues" subforum. Happy 2013! ☺"

[rteslaru]

Thanks, raszpl, I updated the issue description to reflect your comments.

[rbrito]

The fix is relatively simple. I just had a look at the current situation and the most "critical" part is still working (the authentication).

The only thing to change is that they have changed their skeleton of their pages to something not so much different, but with things that the current BeautifulSoup fails to match.

If nobody beats me to it, I can provide a patch to make the script work again.

[rteslaru]

Fixed it -- pull request issued. ;)

[vkaracic]

I'm still getting this error.

[rbrito]

@vkaracic

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:31 AM, vkaracic notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm still getting this error.

Can you open another issue with the latest version of the script?
Please, do share what course you are trying to access, your command
line (it's fine to hide your username/password) and the precise
messages that you get.

Thanks,

Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/
DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br

[bearzx]

I was downloading comnetworks-002 relationship-001 insidetheinternet-003 these three courses yesterday, getting the same error. I just used a very simple script coursera-dl -u *** -p *** comnetworks-002 relationship-001 insidetheinternet-003.

The reason might be that these three courses are finished courses, so I'm not sure if the page structure has changed.

[rbrito]

Hi there.

I don't know about the other courses, but I just took comnetworks-002
for real (meaning that followed it very closely) and I have no
problems with it (or I would try to fix it promptly).

Can you provide us with the information described in
https://github.com/jplehmann/coursera#troubleshooting ?

Thanks,

Rogério.

Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito
DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br

[bearzx]

Problem solved, I was using an old version of the coursera-downloader. Things work well after I updated the code.
Sorry for disturbing you. Thanks for the response.