Cont. issue#49, v1.4.10, html parser, Error: "Warning: no downloadable content found for <several courses>"

[SantiagoG]

Hello Dirk,

First, thank you for this script and all the updates and your work into it in general. I've been using it without any problems using Homebrew's python -which also includes pip- but since today I keep getting error message above even though using html parser.

Thanks!

[HyShai]

Same issue here. Trying to download - programdesign-001 - and getting " Warning: no downloadable content found for programdesign-001, did you accept the honour code?" (i had accepted already).

[SantiagoG]

Yep, that is not the problem. I thought that it was because I was working with courses that have ended -even though the material was still open- but that is also not the problem.

[maitreyak]

Same issue. I tried changing the default parser (lxml,html5lib) yet not luck.

[bhrgunatha]

I get this for all 4 of my current courses. I'm using python 2.7.5 / beautiful soup 4.3.1 / mechanize 0.2.5 Not sure if it's relevant, but I tried stepping through the code - in the BeautifulSoup section (elelment.py) the in find_all I looked at all the objects returned when navigating the video index page. I found these - just before the find_all method returned an empty list of found objects.

Please use a modern browser with JavaScript enabled to use Coursera.

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Seems its a problem with the way coursera uses javascript.

Why do others not have this problem? Won't it be the same for everyone?

[bhrgunatha]

Sorry formatting of html strings

<div id="coursera-loading-nojs" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:10px;display:none;">Please use a <a href="/browsers">modern browser </a> with JavaScript enabled to use Coursera.</div>

<div><span id="coursera-loading-js" style="display: none; padding-left:45%">loading   <img src="https://d2wvvaown1ul17.cloudfront.net/site-static/images/icons/loading.gif"/></span></div>

<noscript><div style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:10px;">Please use a <a href="/browsers">modern browser </a> with JavaScript enabled to use Coursera.</div></noscript>

[stephen-andrew-lynch]

Same problem. Using the same versions as bhrgunatha.

[dgorissen]

Confirmed. Will look into it tonight and/or tomorrow. Any further information/debug output is always helpful.

[bhrgunatha]

Sorry I've gone about as far as I can. I tried lxml and html5lib for the parser also with no luck. I did read that mechanize doesn't support javascript and the only other suggestion I could find were to use a full-fledged browser like webkit or selenium instead of mechanize.

[dgorissen]

Coursera changed their authentication details. Updated the code, seems to work for me. Test with the master branch, if you still have issues reopen.

[sunwooz]

How do I update my coursera-dl install to the master branch? I tried doing pip install coursera-dl --upgrade, but it's saying all requirements are up to date?

[dgorissen]

You need to checkout the repo using git. See the github docs ( https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git). If I get another confirmation that it works (or I get to my other machine) I will update the package in on pypi (so you can upgrade with pip)

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On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Sunwoo Yang notifications@github.comwrote:

How do I update my coursera-dl install to the master branch? I tried doing pip install coursera-dl --upgrade, but it's saying all requirements are up to date?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl/issues/69#issuecomment-23171145 .

[maitreyak]

Works well. Thank you. I cloned the repo and ran: python coursera-dl/courseradownloader/courseradownloader.py -u username -p password -d destDir classname

Just finished downloading the entire course. OS:Ubuntu 64

[jaskerr]

Works. Followed @maitreyak suggestion. Thanks.

[sunwooz]

Did the same and it worked.

Thanks a lot! Love this script.

[bhrgunatha]

Yes - the fix is working. I suck at debugging :( Thanks for your quick action and a great and useful tool.