Unable to download Lynda.com videos with organization login

[ankur56]

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$ youtube-dl -v --cookies cookies.txt http://www.lynda.com/Bash-tutorials/Whats-Bash/142989/156632-4.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--cookies', u'cookies.txt', u'http://www.lynda.com/Bash-tutorials/Whats-Bash/142989/156632-4.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.05.16
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[lynda] 156632: Downloading video JSON
ERROR: lynda returned error: Session has expired
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 676, in extract_info
  File "youtube_dl\extractor\common.pyo", line 341, in extract
  File "youtube_dl\extractor\lynda.pyo", line 124, in _real_extract
ExtractorError: lynda returned error: Session has expired
...
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It is a very common issue among youtube-dl users who want to download playlists/videos from lynda.com. I searched web to resolve this issue but none of the solutions worked. I have an organization login for lynda.com and I want to download whole playlists or member only videos from lynda.com. But when I try to do that, youtube-dl downloads only the free videos and not the whole playlist. And when I try to download individual member only videos, it gives the error "Session has expired". I have provided the full verbose output of this error. I used the method provided by DevKiddo in issue #5926 to download the videos. This issue is similar to issue #9118. I tried their solution which is nothing but trying to re-export the cookies. I tried this too but didn't work. I also tried to download the videos using a Linux (OpenSuse) machine but I got the same error. I would be grateful if someone could provide a working solution to this issue.

[dstftw]

Duplicate of #7725.

[ankur56]

issue #7725 doesn't use an organization login. #7725 has a private login.