What is the username?

[karambir]

Is it the email address I use to login in coursera or the long string which coursera gives to every user(mine is something like 0f084b7d7cce109d4............57 ) or something else?

I have tried both and they did not work. Please help

[jonasdt]

It is the email address. Coursera.org is down at the moment, maybe try again in a few minutes ...

[karambir]

I have been downloading some videos manually (even tried signing in using firefox), so I don't think there is a problem with site now. It gives following message when using email:

Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org.

[rbrito]

Can you please show us the output of the command when you run with the --debug option? Feel free to remove only your personal information (like your password). Leave the rest intact, please.

[rbrito]

Hi.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Jonas De Taeye
[email protected] wrote:

It is the email address. But I see that coursera.org is down, maybe try again in a few minutes ...

It may have been a transient situation. It is working for me:

http:https://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/coursera.org
http:https://status.coursera.org/

Regards,

Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http:https://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito
DebianQA: http:https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br

[karambir]

Sure. I'm using the repo version just cloned in a virtualenv.

(dl)karambir@local:~/coursera$ python coursera-dl -u [email protected] -p <password> --debug algo2-002 
root[main] Downloading class: algo2-002
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): class.coursera.org
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "GET /algo2-002 HTTP/1.1" 302 0
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): accounts.coursera.org
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "POST /api/v1/login HTTP/1.1" 401 31
root[main] Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org.

[jonasdt]

Try with the --clear-cache option, and change line 110 in cookies.py to:

print(r.text)
raise AuthenticationFailed('Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org.')

[karambir]

Found it, it was not due to username but the password. I changed my password to a very simple string(just alphabets) and it worked. It was due to my complex password. I don't know what is the correct term for it, but maybe your command is not sending my actual password but leaving something. Note that my actual password contained alphabets, numbers and % & * all these symbols. Maybe it is escaping something.

[jonasdt]

Ok, good catch. I'll try to fix it.

[asiviero]

Is there a way of wrapping the arguments, like it's done on bash scripts with double quotes?

[jonasdt]

Indeed, I temporarily changed my password to #£§("éù&*^¨l°_<!+@\%, and it works fine if you wrap the password in single quotes

coursera-dl course -u user -p '#£§("éù&*^¨l°_<!+@%'

Double quotes works also, but you have to escape some characters (backtick, !, ...).

@akarambir can you try again with your old password using single quotes?

[rbrito]

On Dec 10 2013, Jonas De Taeye wrote:

Indeed, I temporarily changed my password to #£§("éù&*^¨l°_<!+@\%,
and it works fine if you wrap the password in single quotes

coursera-dl course -u user -p '#£§("éù&*^¨l°_<!+@%'

Yes.

Double quotes works also, but you have to escape some characters
(backtick, !, ...).

@akarambir

Especially exclamation points, as they may try to invoke history. Backticks,
OTOH, tell the shell to perform interpolation by (trying to) call a program.

What do you get if you simply use something like this (substituting your password,
that is):

echo coursera-dl course -u user -p '#`£`§("éù&*^¨l°_<!+@\%'

Do you get back what you typed?

@akarambir can you try again with your old password using single quotes?

What about putting your password in a netrc file?

Regards,

Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http:https://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito
DebianQA: http:https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br

[karambir]

@jonasdt Yes, it is working with single quotes.
@rbrito netrc file way is also working fine. With double quotes I had to escape some symbols as @jonasdt said.
I think it should be recommended to always use single quotes around password and mentioned in readme/docs.

Btw Thanks all for the great tool

[chenlinwang]

Hi, guys, I have been experiencing the same problem with authentication errors like:

Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org.

I have tried to use --clear-cache and change password to pure string or numbers and also wrap my email and password with single quotation marks, but it is still not working. The --debug option results show as followed:

chenlin@coursera$ ./coursera-dl --debug -u '[email protected]' -p 'password' datascitoolbox-005
root[main] Downloading class: datascitoolbox-005
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): class.coursera.org
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "GET /datascitoolbox-005 HTTP/1.1" 302 0
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): accounts.coursera.org
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "POST /api/v1/login HTTP/1.1" 400 18
root[main] Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org.

Any thought? Thx a lot!

[nalbyuites]

I get the same error as chenlinwang; tried what he tried as well -

~> ./coursera/coursera-dl --clear-cache --debug --aria2 -n --path=study/datascitoolbox-005/ datascitoolbox-005
root[authenticate_through_netrc] Trying netrc file None
root[main] Downloading class: datascitoolbox-005
urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): class.coursera.org
urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] Setting read timeout to None
urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "GET /datascitoolbox-005 HTTP/1.1" 302 0
urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): accounts.coursera.org
urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] Setting read timeout to None
urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "POST /api/v1/login HTTP/1.1" 400 18
root[main] Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org.

[kshitijdholakia]

hey, I'm getting the " Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org." issue when I changed my password yesterday. I changed it back to the original one and the issue persists.

Here's the trace using the debug option:

python coursera-dl -u (username) -p (password) hwswinterface-002 --debug
root[main] Downloading class: hwswinterface-002
urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): class.coursera.org
urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] Setting read timeout to None
urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "GET /hwswinterface-002 HTTP/1.1" 302 0
urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): accounts.coursera.org
urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] Setting read timeout to None
urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "POST /api/v1/login HTTP/1.1" 400 18
root[main] Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org.

[2power10]

Hey, I'm also getting the authentication error:

Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org

My password only contain alphabets, after turn on the --debug, --clear-cache and change to print the text in cookies.py, the output looks like that:

python coursera_dl.py -u [email protected] -p xxx "algs4partI-005" --debug --clear-cache
root[main] Downloading class: algs4partI-005
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): class.coursera.org
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "GET /algs4partI-005 HTTP/1.1" 302 0
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_new_conn] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): accounts.coursera.org
requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[_make_request] "POST /api/v1/login HTTP/1.1" 400 18
Malformed request.
root[main] Could not authenticate: Cannot login on accounts.coursera.org.

[rbrito]

Hi. This problem is already fixed with the latest version of coursera-dl.

Also, a kind request: please, don't "revive" old, closed bugs. If needed, please file new bugs.

Regards,

Rogério Brito.

[zhouna]

Hi, I also encountered the problem. And finally solved by warping the username and password with double quotation marks(not single). Hope can help you. @chenlinwang

[tasnim2487]

when I run the command
~/coursera-dl$ ./coursera-dl -u -p class
terminal says,
bash: email:no such file/directory .
what can I do?

[Khun111]

Not working. Tried the options in this thread. Still doesn't work