Pluralsite download is broken: HTTP Error 403

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.03.03
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

D:\Bernardo\Aprendizaje Autonomo\Pluralsight>youtube-dl
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '-i', '-c', '--verbose',
 '--write-pages', '--no-warnings', '--console-title', '--batch-file=batch-file.t
xt', '--max-sleep-interval', '20', '--min-sleep-interval', '5', '-o', '%(playlis
t_title)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s'
, '-f', 'bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720]/worst']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: []
[debug] Batch file urls: ['\ufeffhttps://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/pyt
hon-design-patterns-building-more/table-of-contents']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.03.03
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-8.1-6.3.9600
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[pluralsight:course] python-design-patterns-building-more: Downloading JSON meta
data
[pluralsight:course] Saving request to python-design-patterns-building-more_http
s_-_app.pluralsight.com_player_api_graphql.dump
[download] Downloading playlist: Building More Python Design Patterns
[pluralsight:course] playlist Building More Python Design Patterns: Collected 54
 video ids (downloading 54 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 54
[pluralsight] Downloading login page
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by HTTPErro
r()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are usin
g 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\tmpvjygsi
k_\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 632, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpvjygsi
k_\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2275, 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_defau
lt

Description

Im trying to do a download with a config file on Pluralsight. Credentials are ok, yt-dl is up to date, however is returning a 403 error.

[dalcarobo]

I just follow this steps and was able to download a full course: https://www.quora.com/Tutorials-How-can-I-download-PluralSight-training-videos/answer/Ahmad-Ismail-42?ch=10&share=734732f5&srid=T4z6

If youtube-dl creates a cookies.txt, erase and add the cookies.txt downloaded from browser.

My command: youtube-dl --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" -u "xxxxxxxxx" -p "xxxxxxxxxx"

[dirkf]

Unfortunately this error persists: see #29776.