PluralSight ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError());

[rrskumar4]

Hello Team need an assistance in below:

C:\Y>youtube-dl.exe -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2020.07.28)

C:\Y>youtube-dl -u ****** -p ****** https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/commvault-help-desk-operator/table-of-contents
[pluralsight:course] commvault-help-desk-operator: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: Commvault® Help Desk Operator
[pluralsight:course] playlist Commvault® Help Desk Operator: Collected 13 video ids (downloading 13 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 13
[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.

C:\Y>youtube-dl -u ****** -p ****** https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/commvault-help-desk-operator/table-of-contents --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', 'https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/commvault-help-desk-operator/table-of-contents', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.07.28
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pluralsight:course] commvault-help-desk-operator: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: Commvault® Help Desk Operator
[pluralsight:course] playlist Commvault® Help Desk Operator: Collected 13 video ids (downloading 13 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 13
[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 "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpq2whuxta\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpq2whuxta\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, 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

tried adding cookies.txt also no luck

Thanks in advance

[sagarvd01]

Same here. Getting the following

>youtube-dl -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2020.07.28)
[pluralsight:course] illustrator-cc-crafting-visual-identity-2441: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: Crafting a Visual Identity in Illustrator CC
[pluralsight:course] playlist Crafting a Visual Identity in Illustrator CC: Collected 16 video ids (downloading 16 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 16
[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.

[booyaa]

Will try to see if this workaround still works: #24008

Here's what is working for me at the moment:

• Go to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent make a note of your user agent i.e. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36 Edg/84.0.522.59
• Install EditThisCookie extension, go to settings and set format (defaults to JSON) to Netscape HTTP Cookie file
• Login into Pluralsight using Chrome/Edge
• Click on the EdiThisCookie icon, select Export, paste the cookies into a file called cookies.txt
• Add the following switch to youtube-dl --cookie <path to cookies.txt>
• Remove --username and --password switches.

Warning, you will still get 403s regularly, Pluralsight have upped their detection abilities. You might need to refresh cookies after each download.