Download Pluralsight Subtitles

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I use this command for downloading course subtitles in Pluralsight:

youtube-dl --username USERNAME --password PASSWORD --all-subs URL --skip-download

But I receive this :

[pluralsight:course] unity-shader-graph-introduction: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: Introduction to Shader Graph in Unity
[pluralsight:course] playlist Introduction to Shader Graph in Unity: Collected 19 video ids (downloading 19 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 19
[pluralsight] Downloading login page
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

But when I use this command, I can download videos:

youtube-dl --username USERNAME --password PASSWORD URL

What should I do to fix this problem ?

[jhondbv]

@ATHellboy try adding this argument on your youtube-dl command

-f “best[height<=720]/worst[height>720]”

something like : >youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt --write-sub --sub-lang en,es --verbose -f “best[height<=720]/worst[height>720]” https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/unity-shader-graph-introduction

Although I think the problem is the authentication , you must to pass the credentials , try upgrade phyton version and pass your credentials in the command ,

[jaimebl]

@ATHellboy Ah god, yes you have to manually edit one line of those cookies, look for _sdsat_Target in your cookies file and add this after Subscription info: (Notice there’s a tab at the beginning of the following snippet)

	InTerm:true|FullLibrary:true|Free:true|Trial:false|UserType:individual

So it will look something like this

app.pluralsight.com	FALSE	/	FALSE	1650564064	_sdsat_Target Subscription Info	InTerm:true|FullLibrary:true|Free:true|Trial:false|UserType:individual