Edx http error 403: Forbidden

[mugeshk97]

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Your environment

• Operating System (name/version):Ubuntu 20.04
• Python version:3.8.2
• youtube-dl version:
• edx-dl version:0.1.13

Steps to reproduce

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specific subsection or unit if possible.
https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:MITx+6.00.1x+1T2021/course/

Expected behaviour

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raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Actual behaviour

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[mugeshk97]

It didn't worked

[felixoldsoul]

Similar issue at my side urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Likely html change?

[PaPa-G17Hub]

Getting the same issue with the change in the URL. I'm trying to dl

https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:USMx+ENCE607.4x+1T2021/home

[Onimir89]

I can't download the course because I get http error 403: Forbidden.

Environment:
windows 10 64 bit [[Versione 10.0.19042.867]]
Python version:3.9
youtube-dl version: lattest version at3/21/2021
edx-dl version:0.1.13

Steps to reproduce:

• open cmd, navigate to edx-dl-master
• edx-dl -u email --list-courses
• edx-dl -u email url of course
• Then I get the error

[Terr]

It seems that the 403 is caused by the user agent being sent with the HTTP requests.

If I change it to something realistic (like Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0) the error goes away. So edX is actively trying to block this program.

However I'm running into #670 after the change, so downloading videos doesn't work yet.

[ribvl]

I managed getting rid of this error by substituting 'User-Agent': 'edX-downloader/0.01' by 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.190 Safari/537.36' on the header from edx_dl.py located in Python37\Lib\site-packages\edx_dl\edx_dl.py (line 425)

The script created the folders as expected, but there are no files inside any of them, though. It appears to be the same error from Issue #670. Did anyone find a solution?

[rowatc]

following: same error for MITx' 6.86x

[nerobianchi]

Same error

[floviolleau]

Checkout this project: https://github.com/rehmatworks/edx-downloader

He put a cool feature, take a random user agent from a list https://fake-useragent.herokuapp.com/browsers/0.1.11

Kind regards