Unable to download Linkedin Learning videos with cookies

[rocxteady]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--cookies', u'cookies.txt', u'-o', u'%(playlist_index)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s', u'https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ios-app-development-design-patterns-for-mobile-architecture']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {'http': 'http://127.0.0.1:8888', 'https': 'http://127.0.0.1:8888'}
ERROR: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError(u'JSESSIONID',)); 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/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/linkedin.py", line 154, in _real_extract
    course_data = self._call_api(course_slug, 'chapters,description,title')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/linkedin.py", line 34, in _call_api
    'Csrf-Token': self._get_cookies(api_url)['JSESSIONID'].value,
KeyError: u'JSESSIONID'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 793, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 521, in extract
    raise ExtractorError('An extractor error has occurred.', cause=e)
ExtractorError: An extractor error has occurred. (caused by KeyError(u'JSESSIONID',)); 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'm trying to download Linkedin Learning videos with "--cookies" option. But it gave me the error about "JSESSIONID". I'm using the cookies.txt Chrome extension to export the cookies. I can download the videos with user and password option but I don't want to login so often.

Thank you.

[remitamine]

Invalid cookie file, it should contain at least the JSESSIONID and li_at cookie.

youtube-dl --cookies ~/Downloads/cookies.txt https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ios-app-development-design-patterns-for-mobile-architecture
[linkedin:learning:course] Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: iOS App Development: Design Patterns for Mobile Architecture
[linkedin:learning:course] playlist iOS App Development: Design Patterns for Mobile Architecture: Collected 29 video ids (downloading 29 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 29
[linkedin:learning] welcome: Downloading 360p JSON metadata
[linkedin:learning] welcome: Downloading 540p JSON metadata
[linkedin:learning] welcome: Downloading 720p JSON metadata
[linkedin:learning] welcome: Downloading m3u8 information
[download] Destination: Welcome-630948.mp4
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 57 4283k   57 2447k    0     0   478k      0  0:00:08  0:00:05  0:00:03  493k

[rocxteady]

How did you export your cookies? My cookie file have JSESSIONID and li_at.

[remitamine]

with cookies.txt extension on Firefox, and removing the #HttpOnly_ prefix for the cookies needed.

[rocxteady]

I didn't understand the part removing #HttpOnly_ prefix for the cookies. Can you explain?

[rocxteady]

I uninstalled firefox and installed again some how it worked. Thank you.

[vesnikos]

youtube-dl --cookies ~/Downloads/cookies.txt https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ios-app-development-design-patterns-for-mobile-architecture -v

I can only download up to the 5th video in the series, after that it gives me an error :

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--cookies', './cookies.txt', 'https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ios-app-development-design-patterns-for-mobile-architecture', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.01
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
[download] Downloading video 5 of 29
[linkedin:learning] architecture-pieces: Downloading 360p JSON metadata
[linkedin:learning] architecture-pieces: Downloading 540p JSON metadata
[linkedin:learning] architecture-pieces: Downloading 720p JSON metadata
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\tmplyslo9xs\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 794, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmplyslo9xs\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 508, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmplyslo9xs\build\youtube_dl\extractor\linkedin.py", line 126, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmplyslo9xs\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 1305, 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.