Pluralsight unable to download login page (403)

[fullmerjf]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• 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 issues including closed ones

Verbose log

$ youtube-dl --rm-cache-dir --username "<USERNAME>" --password "<PASSWORD>" --verbose --sleep-interval 120 "https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/cisco-enterprise-networks-basic-networking-ip-fundamentals"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--rm-cache-dir', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE', u'--verbose', u'--sleep-interval', u'120', u'https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/cisco-enterprise-networks-basic-networking-ip-fundamentals']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.17 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-96-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.2-0york0, ffprobe 4.2.2-0york0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Removing cache dir /home/jon/.cache/youtube-dl ...
[pluralsight:course] cisco-enterprise-networks-basic-networking-ip-fundamentals: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: Cisco Enterprise Networks: Basic Networking and IP Fundamentals 
[pluralsight:course] playlist Cisco Enterprise Networks: Basic Networking and IP Fundamentals : Collected 29 video ids (downloading 29 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 29
[pluralsight] Downloading login page
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 "/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)

Description

I'm attempting to use youtube-dl to download PluralSight videos. I've followed instructions (including the suggested solution of adding "--rm-cache-dir" to solve 403 issues). The problem appears to be an inability to retrieve the login page. Just a guess. If it helps, I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. Current on patches. Any thoughts?

[gdguradio]

having same problems any solution for this one? @dstftw i dont think this a duplicate. None is working for ubuntu

[b1ggjoe]

Any luck with this yet?