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Your log is the same as mine for unauthenticated access. But in the browser I get a redirect to the URL with `.../course/...'. The 403 comes with a Cloudflare challenge...

Please link a Site Support Request for this site or paste the completed template here. Also, there are some more _flake8_ nits to clear.

>Does this comment provide suggestions from a dimension you hadn’t considered? Not really. >Do you find this comment helpful? It doesn't tell me anything that I wouldn't have seen in...

The "data model" of yt-dl, and `--download-archive ...` in particular, expects that the `id` is unique over all items extracted by the same IE. One case where this isn't so...

See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/9248 and the [linked advice](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#user-content-im-getting-http-error-403-and-the-site-has-an-open-issue-on-the-tracker-thats-labeled-cloudflare-related-what-can-i-do), except that yt-dl doesn't have `--cookies-from-browser ...`.

Follow the FAQ instructions for exporting cookies to a file and then use `--cookies ...` with the name of the cookie file as argument.

Try using the same UA that acquired the cookies, as per the _yt-dlp_ instructions (or making your browser use `Mozilla/5.0`).

Unmatched quotes: ```diff ---user-agent "Mozilla/5.0'(Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0" +--user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0' ``` Although it's not the problem...

Regarding yt-dl vs yt-dlp, the differences are well documented at the yt-dlp project GitHub site. tldr; yt-dlp gets more development but requires a new-ish Python, while people are able to...

Maintainers don't have to watch the content that's supported by the programme, at least not unless it's **very compelling**. As to quoting, a non-default `IFS` would break my [decades-old intuition...