HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[etman55]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'-o', u'~/Downloads/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s', u'--verbose', u'--sleep-interval', u'120', u'https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/jenkins-2-getting-started/', u'--playlist-start', u'1']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-19.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pluralsight:course] jenkins-2-getting-started: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: Getting Started with Jenkins 2
[pluralsight:course] playlist Getting Started with Jenkins 2: Collected 64 video ids (downloading 64 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 64
[pluralsight] Downloading login page
[pluralsight] Logging in
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: 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 with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

I was trying to download pluralsight course and found this bug

[etman55]

how did you closed that issue if it's not resolved yet in the other duplicated one that you closed too!

[AlineFreitas]

how did you closed that issue if it's not resolved yet in the other duplicated one that you closed too!

I'm wondering the same thing. I tried finding the original one, and it was also closed, but no solution seem to have been provided. I'm confused