nable to download: Error 403, Error: Forbidden for url, when use coursera_dl download lecture

My coursera_dl version 0.11.5

When use

$ coursera-dl -u <your-email> -p <your-pwd> the-lecture -ca CAUTH

It also prompts bellow error:

coursera_dl version 0.11.5
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/coursera/cookies.py", line 148, in login
    r.raise_for_status()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 941, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://api.coursera.org/api/login/v3

Solution

run command:
coursera-dl -u xxxxx@xxxxxxx -p xxxxxxxxxx --cauth ccccccccccccc course-name

here ccccccccc is the cauth cookie. Take a note that there is double -- before cauth.

 

for comman help, run command: 

coursera-dl -h

references:

1. https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl#china-issues

2. https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/issues/723

3. https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl#sslerror-errno-1-_sslc504-error14094410ssl-routinesssl3_read_bytessslv3-alert-handshake-failure