Pluralsight: ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

[ivanskodje]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/docker-ansible-continuous-delivery/table-of-contents', u'-o', u'/home/username/Videos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)02d - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s', u'--sleep-interval', u'35', u'--max-sleep-interval', u'120', u'--sub-lang', u'en', u'--sub-format', u'srt', u'--write-sub']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-4.8.0-53-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-18.2-sonya
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pluralsight:course] docker-ansible-continuous-delivery: Downloading course JSON
[pluralsight:course] docker-ansible-continuous-delivery: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests (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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 598, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

I've tested several times, and the problem still occurs a day between attempts.
I've tried to use a VPN, I've tried to turn off the VPN, and it still occurs.

Any ideas?

[robk9e]

I guess that Pluralsight has changed somehting in their infraestructure to protect them from youtube-dl.
I'm facing the same problem since yesterday

[madewithfire]

I got the same issues. 2 days back it was working.

[deltaepsilon]

@robk9e is right! I'm on the Pluralsight team that runs that endpoint. We're not huge fans of scraping the site ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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