Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[dharam020]

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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: ['-v', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', '--verbose', '--sleep-interval', '120', 'https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/python-data-science/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.09
[debug] Python version 3.6.4 (CPython) - Linux-4.13.0-38-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pluralsight:course] python-data-science: Downloading course JSON
[pluralsight:course] python-data-science: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 519, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2203, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/home/dharam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/home/dharam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/home/dharam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/home/dharam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/home/dharam/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

While downloading the videos getting below error:
Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden