Lynda organization session has expired

[Mgayar-sci]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt https://www.lynda.com/Unity-tutorials/Add-player-positions/427923/479695-4.html? --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--cookies', u'cookies.txt', u'https://www.lynda.com/Unity-tutorials/Add-player-positions/427923/479695-4.html?', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[lynda] 479695: Downloading video JSON
ERROR: lynda returned error: Session has expired
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 669, in extract_info
  File "youtube_dl\extractor\common.pyo", line 323, in extract
  File "youtube_dl\extractor\lynda.pyo", line 124, in _real_extract
ExtractorError: lynda returned error: Session has expired
...
<end of log>

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I'm having problems downloading videos from Lynda.com using my login cookies.txt file, it displays an error requiring me to use username and password which are not available in organization case

[dstftw]

Most likely your cookiefile has expired.

1. Can you watch it in browser?
2. How long ago have you exported your cookies? Re-export them and try again.
3. Post the output of youtube-dl --dump-pages --print-traffic --cookies cookies.txt https://www.lynda.com/Unity-tutorials/Add-player-positions/427923/479695-4.html.

[Mgayar-sci]

1. I can watch in browser.
2. 2 or 3 minutes
3. It worked for some time after I re-exported the cookies and it seems working for some time and I must re-export the cookies again.

Some cookies worked just fine and some other didn't.