"No video Formats found" error when trying to download from pluralsight!

[pooria1366]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--cookies', 'cookie.txt', '--sleep-interval', '120', '--all-subs', '-o', '%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/csharp-collections']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.07.04
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-91152-g7c333dc6a7
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pluralsight:course] csharp-collections: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: C# Collections Fundamentals
[pluralsight:course] playlist C# Collections Fundamentals: Collected 109 video ids (downloading 109 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 109
[pluralsight] csharp-collections-fundamentals-m1-welcome-0: Downloading JSON metadata
[pluralsight] csharp-collections-fundamentals-m1-welcome-0: Downloading mp4-high viewclip graphql
[pluralsight] csharp-collections-fundamentals-m1-welcome-0: Waiting for 4 seconds to avoid throttling
ERROR: No video formats found; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpuh7o953j\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpuh7o953j\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 501, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpuh7o953j\build\youtube_dl\extractor\pluralsight.py", line 409, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpuh7o953j\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 1281, in _sort_formats
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; 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.

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I use following command:
youtube-dl -v --cookies cookie.txt --sleep-interval 120 --all-subs -o "%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/csharp-collections"
Have tried changing my IP ,one other account and other courses and unfortunately still the same error.

[lasharela]

[pluralsight] rust-fundamentals-m1-0: Waiting for 2 seconds to avoid throttling
ERROR: No video formats found; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 501, in extract
ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/pluralsight.py", line 409, in _real_extract
self._sort_formats(formats)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1281, in _sort_formats
raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')
ExtractorError: No video formats found; 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.

The same here.
https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/rust-fundamentals/table-of-contents link

[dstftw]

Most likely your cookies are expired. Anyway for any work on the issue you must provide account credentials.

[pooria1366]

@dstftw Yup I was supplying the wrong file instead of cookie X'D

[nepax]

whats the solution on this?

[mringler]

I think it means you need to supply youtube credentials. Seems like there are three methods to do it:

• use the --username parameter for and give password in prompt (or use --password parameter)
• copy cookie header from request (as nicely described here and supply it through --add-header parameter
• download youtube cookies to text file and supply filename with --cookies parameter

However, for youtube, first two do not work (for me?), third is too much hassle, to be honest.

When I give google username (mesa@googlemail.com) and enter my google password, it won't work.
Giving the cookie header does not work either, probably because of wrong format (see here). Again, argh, the hassle...

Am I missing something here? Seems like downloading from youtube with youtube-dl is quasi-broken at this point.

[NirobNabil]

just as @mringler said, tried all three of em (for youtube) and it still says no video formats found. although i couldn't really get the login thing to work (says couldn't look up account info with a http: 400 bad request).

also, i was getting "too many requests http: 429" error when using my main IP. using a proxy solved that issue but now i'm stuck with this no video formats problem.

PS. i used firefox plugin cookies.txt to get the cookies