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4 years ago Hi, I am using GitHub first time, basically am a noob but I guess I could help you in this. I faced the same problem & am pasting solution given by other person.
You can fix it by changing line 425 of edx_dl.py which specifies the User-Agent attribute of the http request header. Change 'User-Agent': 'edX-downloader/0.01', to 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0', and it will work.
if you are using chrome then you could change it to 'Chrome/84.0.4147.125'. Note :
- here 84.0.4147.125 is chrome version, get yours at chrome://settings/help
- Search "edx_dl" in the file directory, open folder. Then open file 'edx_dl.py' in text editor & scroll till line 425. See line no. at bottom right corner of the editor.
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I am getting HTTP Error 403: Forbidden issue when downloading from Edx. I did make the change in the dll
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Steps to reproduce
Tell us how to reproduce this issue. Please provide us the course URL, and the specific subsection or unit if possible.
I am management student trying to download the below course https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:BUx+QD501x+2T2020/course/
Expected behaviour
Download the course.
Actual behaviour
C:\windows\system32>edx-dl -u username@gmail.com https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:BUx+QD501x+2T2020/course/ edx_dl version 0.1.13 Password: Building initial headers for future requests. Getting initial CSRF token. Found CSRF token. Logging into Open edX site: https://courses.edx.org/login_ajax Extracting course information from dashboard. Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main return _run_code(code, main_globals, None, File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Users\rajal\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Scripts\edx-dl.exe__main__.py", line 7, in
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\edx_dl\edx_dl.py", line 1020, in main
all_selections = {selected_course:
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\edx_dl\edx_dl.py", line 1021, in
get_available_sections(selected_course.url.replace('info', 'course'),
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\edx_dl\edx_dl.py", line 184, in get_available_sections
page = get_page_contents(url, headers)
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\edx_dl\utils.py", line 58, in get_page_contents
result = urlopen(Request(url, None, headers))
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 222, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 640, in http_response
response = self.parent.error(
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
return self._call_chain(args)
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
result = func(args)
File "c:\users\rajal\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden