unable to download udemy course

[shahmoeen]

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~$ youtube-dl -v --cookies ./cookies.txt https://www.udemy.com/instagram-masterclass-grow-your-account-complete-guide
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--cookies', u'./cookies.txt', u'https://www.udemy.com/instagram-masterclass-grow-your-account-complete-guide']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.15rc1 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-38-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, ffprobe 3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, phantomjs 6011, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[udemy:course] instagram-masterclass-grow-your-account-complete-guide: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Unauthorized (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 605, 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)

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I am trying to download a udemy course but unable to do that with latest youtube-dl installed. I am using ubuntu 18.04.