Download non-video files from Udemy

[2ndg33r]

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This is just a question about downloading non-video files from Udemy. On Udemy there are some lectures that are text only. I can download video files fine but when it gets to a part of "chapter" that is not a video the script quits with ERROR: Lecture xyz is not a video. Is there a workaround for this? I'm fine not actually downloading these so is there a way to say when it's not a video file skip it and continue to the next one?

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[dstftw]

This issue is already fixed and fix will be incorporated in the next version of youtube-dl. For now you can enforce ignoring errors with -i.

[MaZZly]

I encountered the same problem with a course containing text-content... When passing the -i flag it gets one step further and then fails on ERROR: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'copy'
But if it'll get fixed on next release I can probably wait. ETA?