Please provide a username with the -u option, or a .netrc file with the -n option.

[talhanaimrao]

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Subject of the issue

When I try to download,, this message appears. Please provide a username with the -u option, or a .netrc file with the -n option.

I am using it for the first time

Your environment

• Operating System (name/version): Windows 10
• Python version: 3.11
• coursera-dl version:

Steps to reproduce

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enough information so that you can help us help you:

• Is the problem happening with the latest version of the script?
• Do you have all the recommended versions of the modules? See them in the
  file requirements.txt.
• What is the course that you are trying to access?
• What is the precise command line that you are using (don't forget to obfuscate
  your username and password, but leave all other information untouched).
• What are the precise messages that you get? Please, use the --debug
  option before posting the messages as a bug report. Please, copy and paste
  them. Don't reword/paraphrase the messages.

Expected behaviour

Tell us what should happen.

Actual behaviour

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output of the command or the stacktrace (don't forget to obfuscate your
username and password). If you cannot copy the exception, attach a screenshot.

[talhanaimrao]

D:\coursera_courses>coursera-dl data-visualization-tableau -u [email protected] -p shsggfga
coursera_dl version 0.11.5
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\DELL\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\coursera\cookies.py", line 148, in login
r.raise_for_status()
File "C:\Users\DELL\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 1021, in raise_for_status
raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://api.coursera.org/api/login/v3

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "", line 88, in run_code
File "C:\Users\DELL\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\coursera-dl.exe_main.py", line 7, in
File "C:\Users\DELL\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\coursera\coursera_dl.py", line 239, in main
login(session, args.username, args.password)
File "C:\Users\DELL\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\coursera\cookies.py", line 155, in login
raise AuthenticationFailed('Cannot login on coursera.org: %s' % e)
coursera.cookies.AuthenticationFailed: Cannot login on coursera.org: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://api.coursera.org/api/login/v3

[ykhan21]

I had the same errors. What worked for me was to use the --cauth COOKIES_CAUTH instead of the username and password.
This works:

coursera-dl -ca COOKIES_CAUTH cs101

This doesn't work:

coursera-dl -username myname cs101

See this answer and thread #816 (comment).

[AbdurRahman-Khan]

I had the same errors. What worked for me was to use the --cauth COOKIES_CAUTH instead of the username and password. This works:

coursera-dl -ca COOKIES_CAUTH cs101

This doesn't work:

coursera-dl -username myname cs101

See this answer and thread #816 (comment).

Still the same error