Udemy - ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: FORBIDDEN

[IAmIlliest]

• [x ] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.10.07
• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)

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$ youtube-dl -v -u 'user' -p 'password' -o '~/MyVideos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.udemy.com/draft/210674/learn/v4/overview

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'-p', u'PRIVATE', u'-o', u'~/MyVideos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s', u'https://www.udemy.com/draft/210674/learn/v4/overview']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Linux-3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.2.1511-Core
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-79151-gff982e0, ffprobe N-79151-gff982e0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[udemy:course] Downloading login popup
[udemy:course] Logging in as user
[udemy:course] draft: Downloading webpage
[udemy:course] 210674: Downloading course curriculum
[download] Downloading playlist: UNIX and Linux Operating System - Beginner & Advanced
[udemy:course] playlist UNIX and Linux Operating System - Beginner & Advanced: Collected 180 video ids (downloading 180 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 180
[udemy] Downloading login popup
[udemy] 1248832: Downloading webpage
[udemy] 1248832: Downloading lecture JSON
[udemy] 1248832: Downloading lecture JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: FORBIDDEN (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/home/user/myapps/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 403, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/user/myapps/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
...
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I'm not sure what the issue is, but it appears to be receiving a 403 and having JSON errors. After the above, it spits me back on to the command line. The operating system is CentOS 7.

[horusra]

I have this same issue. if it can be fixed by providing account, I will allow access to my account to one of the developers

[dstftw]

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