Unable to download JSON meta on Udemy

[luxint66]

yt-dl_error.txt

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

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.udemy.com/draft/1305998/learn/v4/content']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.20
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[udemy:course] Downloading login popup
[udemy:course] Logging in as PRIVATE
[udemy:course] draft: Downloading webpage
[udemy:course] 1305998: Downloading course curriculum
[download] Downloading playlist: 1305998
[udemy:course] playlist 1305998: Collected 198 video ids (downloading 198 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 198
[udemy] Downloading login popup
[udemy] 7620610: Downloading webpage
[udemy] 7620610: Downloading lecture JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: NOT FOUND (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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpvdixi2dy\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 503, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpvdixi2dy\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2195, 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
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[luxint66]

Just noticed a similar issue 3 days ago and the response was it has been fixed in the next release. Hopefully, that'll be sometime soon. Thanks for a great program. - LUX

#14549

[aadil268]

same issue with me