HTTP Error 403: Unauthorized ( Udemy Account )

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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: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.udemy.com/modern-javascript-the-complete-course-build-10-projects/learn/v4/content', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.01
[debug] Python version 3.7.0 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-91567-g076b19660e, ffprobe N-91567-g076b19660e
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[udemy:course] Downloading login popup
[udemy:course] Logging in
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Unauthorized (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Unauthorized'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "c:\python\python37\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 599, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "c:\python\python37\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "c:\python\python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "c:\python\python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 641, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "c:\python\python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "c:\python\python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "c:\python\python37\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
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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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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Hi sir, Love with your youtube-dl feature. Im try to figure out how to bypass the 403 from udemy.com site, however i can't find any solution at all to bypass the 403 error. If there anything u need from me just let me know. Thanks.

My question is how can i bypass the 403 error from udemy when it trigger the download login popup?

Any chance of a fix, please?