error with some courses

[michaeljf]

Thank you for this awesome tool!

I am getting an error with just some courses. This is from a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OS. Below is the error message:

...

• Authenticating as site_user...
• Already logged in
• Collecting downloadable content from http://class.coursera.org/dataanalysis-001/lecture/index
• Got all downloadable content for dataanalysis-001
• dataanalysis-001 will be downloaded to /home/local_user/my/coursera/courses/dataanalysis-001
  • Downloading lecture/syllabus pages
• Authenticating as site_user...
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/coursera-dl", line 9, in
  load_entry_point('coursera-dl==1.1.11', 'console_scripts', 'coursera-dl')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/courseradownloader/courseradownloader.py", line 452, in main
  d.download_course(cn,dest_dir=args.dest_dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/courseradownloader/courseradownloader.py", line 183, in download_course
  self.login(cname)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/courseradownloader/courseradownloader.py", line 42, in login
  page = self.browser.open(self.LOGIN_URL % course_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 203, in open
  return self._mech_open(url, data, timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
  response = UserAgentBase.open(self, request, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 204, in open
  response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 457, in http_response
  'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 221, in error
  result = apply(self._call_chain, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
  result = func(_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 571, in http_error_302
  return self.parent.open(new)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 203, in open
  return self._mech_open(url, data, timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
  response = UserAgentBase.open(self, request, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 193, in open
  response = urlopen(self, req, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open
  '_open', req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
  result = func(_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1170, in https_open
  return self.do_open(conn_factory, req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1118, in do_open
  raise URLError(err)
  urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>

[dgorissen]

Mm, tested here and it works fine. Ensure you are using the last version. Did you manually accept the honour code before trying to download via the script?