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

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Checklist

I'm reporting a broken site support issue

• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.06.06
• 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

Below is the verbose log. It continues to do the same for all the videos.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--download-archive', 'downloaded.txt', '--cookies', 'cookies.txt', '-f', 'bestvideo+bestaudio/best', '-i', '-o',
'udemy/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s-%(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--write-description', 'https://www.udemy.com/course/link']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.8.3 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-106-generic-x86_64-with
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.3, ffprobe 4.2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[udemy:course] course: Downloading webpage
[udemy:course] 648826: Downloading course curriculum
[download] Downloading playlist: 648826
[udemy:course] playlist 648826: Collected 318 video ids (downloading 318 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 318
[udemy] 4281754: Downloading webpage
[udemy] 4281754: Downloading lecture JSON
[udemy] 4281754: Downloading lecture JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: 'Forbidden'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org
/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and
include its complete output.
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Removing the /course/ from the links seems to be working.

More: #22306

[harshluthra]

Hey can you help me with this same issue?
check out this link which shows the error
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SHcfS-S7XqlRuqqQkhZ3sSGMVkw6Z2ay/view?usp=sharing