Password complexity issue

[vkaracic]

When I first tried this script with the -u and -p args I get an error:

bash: !an < rest of the password >: event not found

When I tried with the .netrc file I get a bad cookie or wrong credentials error, even though they were right. This is when I wanted to post the issue but I went through the code and found these lines:

if args.username and not args.password and not args.netrc:
  args.password = getpass.getpass("Coursera password for %s: " % args.username)

so I just entered my username via -u and the name of the class without my password, I got the prompt for the password, after entering it the download started normally. So I guess there is a problem with parsing the complex passwords - I'm not much of a coder so I'm not sure what exactly is an issue, hopefully you guys will know and improve this script!

Good script, it's a life savior! Cheers! :)

[rbrito]

Hi.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:53 AM, vkaracic notifications@github.com wrote:

When I first tried this script with the -u and -p args I get an error:

bash: !an: event not found

It's not clear here if you were trying to use bash's history functions
(a ! immediately followed by some characters to repeat a previous
command containing those characters) or if your password actually has
an exclamation character.

I suspect, from your message, that the second case applies here, in
which case you have to escape the exclamation.

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[vkaracic]

Yes, you are correct. I tried using single quotes in the ./netrc file but it doesn't work. Using it in-line via -u and -p did the trick!

[mrb1778]

I did not get the quoting to work or the .netrc, but i did get the conf file to work
coursera-dl.conf