Udemy Trick You Must Try (WorkAround) by dillagr

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Udemy Trick You Must Try (WorkAround)
Sometime back in my early days in SteemIt, I posted a Udemy trick to be able to download the course(s) on another mobile device -- a notebook or netbook, perhaps. In case you missed that post, you may find it here: [Udemy Trick You Must Try](https://steemit.com/how-to/@dillagr/udemy-trick-you-must-try).

In my continued quest to improve myself professionally, I still use this every now and then to download new courses I enroll in. However, in the past week, the script seemed to have stopped working. I did update to the latest Python packages required and pulled the latest code in github. To no avail...

I get the error: ***Udemy Says: 403 Unauthorized...*** 
(as you will see on the screenshot below)

<center>![UDEMYDL.PNG](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmeADYQenGCvupcdkBYEPtY5T1JGFWZ7gYCKtkt8865Z8p)</center>
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To those who are adventurous enough to still want to make this trick work, follow along.

Download Google's Chrome browser. If you already have it, launch the browser and press ***"F12"*** on the keyboard to open the browser's built in Development Tools.

Login to Udemy.

Then on the Development Tools, under ***Network***, go to ***XHR*** and find the ***?sessionState=....*** resource. You will find a ***Request Headers*** to the bottom right of the window (as shown in the screenshot). Pardon the limited view on that screenshot, as I cannot share with you the cookies to my Udemy account.

<center>![UDEMYDLDEV.PNG](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmWDkGAUKAmJ8EQ73YjTmGDu6kcWkL8GLNYjua61EY3Q1T)</center>
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Copy and paste the contents of ***Request Headers*** and save it as a text file, which in this example we will name ***cookies.txt***.

Now execute the download with the same options as before, with the additional ***-k cookies.txt***. (```python3 udemy-dl.py https://www.udemy.com/linux-high-availability-clustering -k cookies.txt```)

This sample below is for the same [Linux High Availability Clustering](http://bit.ly/LinuxHACluster) course.

<center>![UDEMYDLCOOK.PNG](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmXtLoj4prhDHEoFZy5ZZwAtnVzzdvhNi7SMmgM9B2x4vp)</center>
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The download trick still works, albeit a bit more technical this time.

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