Download error when downloading with LinkedIn account

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computer@computer:~/$ youtube-dl --verbose --print-traffic --dump-pages -u private --cookies cookies1.txt https://www.lynda.com/C-tutorials/C-Essential-Training/182674-2.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--print-traffic', u'--dump-pages', u'-u', u'PRIVATE', u'--cookies', u'cookies1.txt', u'https://www.lynda.com/C-tutorials/C-Essential-Training/182674-2.html']
Type account password and press [Return]: 
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.06.18.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Linux-4.2.0-27-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-15.10-wily
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I am trying to download some videos and followed every tutorial around.
I could fix the cookies prerequisites and start the download but, since my account come from linkedin it thrown an error:

ERROR: Unable to login: Please use the "Sign in with LinkedIn" option to sign in.
ExtractorError: Unable to login: Please use the "Sign in with LinkedIn" option to sign in.

There is something can be done about it ?

[dstftw]

If you authenticate with cookies you should not specify -u.

[tiagobrc]

When I do that it shows to me :
WARNING: 93 videos are only available for members (or paid members) and will not be downloaded.

Even using cookies

[aeruhxi]

I have the same problem with passing cookies. I am using organizational login. Also, I tried to download a single locked video, I got ERROR: lynda returned error: Session has expired But I can play the video in browser fine.

[yan12125]

An approach to get 3-month premium account: (thanks Mark for sharing this)

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you can get a free account (3 month premium account to both linkedin learning and pluralsight and many more) by signing up to

Steps:

1. Sign up for the FREE Visual Studio Dev Essentials program that you can find here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-dev-essentials-vs.aspx
2. After you create your account, Click on the “Get Code” under the Linkedin Learning Tile