HTTP Error 403: FORBIDDEN (caused by HTTPError()) downloading certain UDEMY video

[dbodily2000]

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PS E:\UDEMY Courses\ITIL Foundation COMPLETE ITIL Foundation Exam Training> .\youtube-dl.exe -v -u email@yahoo.com -p ********* https://www.udemy.com/draft/470634/learn/v4/overvie
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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.udemy.com/draft/470634/learn/v4/overview']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.14
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[udemy:course] Downloading login popup
[udemy:course] Logging in as email@yahoo.com
[udemy:course] draft: Downloading webpage
[udemy:course] 470634: Downloading course curriculum
[download] Downloading playlist: 470634
[udemy:course] playlist 470634: Collected 121 video ids (downloading 121 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 121
[udemy] Downloading login popup
[udemy] 2771478: Downloading webpage
[udemy] 2771478: Downloading lecture JSON
[udemy] 2771478: 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 versio
n; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpykl6x8ju\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 498, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpykl6x8ju\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2100, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default

PS E:\UDEMY Courses\ITIL Foundation COMPLETE ITIL Foundation Exam Training>
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<end of log>

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• Multiple videos from single Udemy course: https://www.udemy.com/draft/470634/learn/v4/overview

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Trying to download my paid Udemy content, all videos have downloaded correctly except the following URL:https://www.udemy.com/draft/470634/learn/v4/overview I have tried comming back on a different day to see if the course was locked or updated etc. No success. Attached dump if needed, again all other videos ~50 downloaded with no incident using same creds, powershell as admin and same parent directory.
Udemy_HTTP_Error_403_dump.txt

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[Deviad]

Same here, but having:

"ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 406: NOT ACCEPTABLE (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."

This happens with:
https://www.udemy.com/oop-php-object-oriented-programing-with-project-1-course/learn/v4/content
and
https://www.udemy.com/become-a-full-stack-developer-with-spring-aws-and-stripe/learn/v4/

It happens also with udemy-dl.
https://github.com/nishad/udemy-dl/issues/207

[dbodily2000]

So after looking further into my own issue, I found that the Udemy error was caused because there was a "draft" (the course was being updated) I have found that by deleting the "draft" portion of the URL, the download worked. I.e:

https://www.udemy.com/draft/470634/learn/v4/overview (does not work)

https://www.udemy.com/470634/learn/v4/overview (does allow download without errors of all content)
this may be useful for other users who are having issues downloading wile the course is in a "draft" state.

My issue has been resolved at this time.