[Pluralsight] Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPError())

Checklist

• [ x] I’m reporting a broken site support issue
• [ x] I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
• [ x] I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [ x] I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• [ x] I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• [ x] I’ve read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', 'https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/48cc2615-745c-4dde-bcff-36d49dfeeb24', '-o', 'C:/Users/asalinas/Videos/Pluralsight/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)02d - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s', '--sleep-interval', '35', '--max-sleep-interval', '120', '--sub-lang', 'en', '--sub-format', 'srt', '--write-sub', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pluralsight:course] 48cc2615-745c-4dde-bcff-36d49dfeeb24: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
[pluralsight:course] playlist Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation: Collected 51 video ids (downloading 51 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 51
[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.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 634, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpkqxnwl31\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2288, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default

Description

Trying to download videos from Pluralsight.com. This requires username and password that will not be posted here but I can provide if required. Please request credentials privately for testing or troubleshooting and I can provide. Followed instructions according to the following page: https://gist.github.com/ivanskodje/5bd8697a64e9879f397f7ef161cf0956

What the problem is

• Videos doesn’t download properly How it could be fixed
• Not sure How your proposed solution would look like
• Videos downloading properly

[dirkf]

Try adding a specific UA parameter to the yt-dl command line (Windows: make the quotes ‘’ double “”):

--user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36'

However if you should succeed your account will be banned, according to commenters in OP’s linked Gist. Also, according to #28712, the extractor hasn’t been working even after its most recent commit: perhaps it should be marked as not _WORKING.

[vlazic]

It doesn’t work with the --cookies flag either. Only the first video is downloaded and I for other videos I get a 403 error.