Unable to download videos from linkedin learning - Unsupported URL

[anshad]

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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 https://www.linkedin.com/learning/critical-thinking/the-importance-of-critical-thinking -v --cookies cookies.txt

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.linkedin.com/learning/critical-thinking/the-importance-of-critical-thinking', u'-v', u'--cookies', u'cookies.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.07.02
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] the-importance-of-critical-thinking: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] the-importance-of-critical-thinking: Downloading webpage
[generic] the-importance-of-critical-thinking: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/critical-thinking/the-importance-of-critical-thinking
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1986, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2539, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 50, column 4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 762, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2824, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/critical-thinking/the-importance-of-critical-thinking

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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.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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[Anil86]

Like youtube-dl supports downloading courses from Pluralsight & Udemy, please provide support for downloading courses from LinkedIn Learning as well.

Through LinkedIn Learning account we can download courses from 2 sites: LinkedIn Learning & Lynda (Lynda was acquired by LinkedIn. So Lynda's courses are available on LinkedIn Learning).

LinkedIn Learning is a major e-Learning site.

[chovy]

Its been awhile, anyone try this?

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/node-js-design-patterns

[namaljayathunga]

WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
ERROR: Unsupported ULR:

Above error again. I think the Linkedin site has been changed and removed lynda.com URL support. Please add this service. Thanks.