Can't authenticate with valid credentials

Trying to download competition files gives me authentication errors:

$ kg download -u <my-username> -p <my-password> -c <competition>
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.kaggle.com
The username or password provided is incorrect.
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

I’m using the same user and password that lets me login via the browser with no problems.

[chasehere]

Quoting didn’t work for me but escaping dollar signs did. E.g. -p mypa\$word

[rissem]

I ran into this as well (because of a ‘>’ in my password I think). Simply quoting my password fixed it for me.