Issue downloading videos with youtube-dl from udemy course

[sharmakhimlal]

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2016.11.14.1. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.11.14.1

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[udemy:course] Downloading login popup
[udemy:course] Logging in as xxx@aaaaxxxx.com
[udemy:course] draft: Downloading webpage
[udemy:course] 138926: Downloading course curriculum
[download] Downloading playlist: 138926
[udemy:course] playlist 138926: Collected 58 video ids (downloading 58 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 58
[udemy] Downloading login popup
[udemy] 850438: Downloading webpage
[udemy] 850438: Downloading lecture JSON
[udemy] 850438: 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; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
ERROR: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'copy'

Please look into the issue and let me know , when this will fix ??

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.udemy.com/draft/138926/learn/v4/t/lecture/850438

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

$youtube-dl --version
2016.11.14.1

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with -v, i.e. add -v flag to your command line, copy the whole output and post it in the issue body wrapped in ``` for better formatting. It should look similar to this:

$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.12.06
[debug] Git HEAD: 135392e
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...

Do not post screenshots of verbose log only plain text is acceptable.

The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible and therefore do not get solved in short order, if ever.

[sharmakhimlal]

[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.udemy.com/draft/138926/learn/v4/t/lecture/850438', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.14.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.5 - Linux-2.6.32-642.6.1.el6.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-6.8-Final
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.2.1, ffprobe 2.2.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[udemy:course] Downloading login popup
[udemy:course] Logging in as xxxx@xxxaaa.com
[udemy:course] draft: Downloading webpage
[udemy:course] 138926: Downloading course curriculum
[download] Downloading playlist: 138926
[udemy:course] playlist 138926: Collected 58 video ids (downloading 58 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 58
[udemy] Downloading login popup
[udemy] 850438: Downloading webpage
[udemy] 850438: Downloading lecture JSON
[udemy] 850438: 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; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 404, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 470, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 580, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 508, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 588, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[dstftw]

Warning: The Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect - AL course is no longer available to purchase on the Udemy platform. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have already purchased this course, please log in to your Udemy account to access it.

[sharmakhimlal]

I already purchased this course from Udemy but I need to download this course for offline. So for this I need your help to fix this issue ASAP.

[dstftw]

For any further investigations you have to provide credentials of account capable to access the course.