ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError()

[ggkr]

trying to download a few courses from PluralSight. everything worked fine yesterday when all of the sudden it stopped working. the issue occurs both in version 2018.10.29 and 2018.11.07.

help would be much appreciated.

CMD> .\youtube-dl.exe --verbose --username #### --password #### https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/tfs-2015/table-of-contents -o "D:\Guides And Tutorials\IT\Pluralsight\%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)02d - %(chapter)s/
%(playlist_index)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s" --sleep-interval 35 --max-sleep-interval 120 --sub-lang en --sub-format srt --write-sub

[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', 'https://app.pluralsight.com/libr
ary/courses/tfs-2015/table-of-contents', '-o', 'D:\\Guides And Tutorials\\IT\\Pluralsight\\%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)02d
 - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s', '--sleep-interval', '35', '--max-sleep-interval', '120', '--sub-la
ng', 'en', '--sub-format', 'srt', '--write-sub']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1255, fs mbcs, out cp1255, pref cp1255
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.07
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17134
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pluralsight:course] tfs-2015: Downloading JSON metadata
[pluralsight:course] tfs-2015: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (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 w
ith the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpj6iiia1g\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 60
5, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpj6iiia1g\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in 
urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default

[remitamine]

Duplicate of #14288.