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I know some (most?) of you reading HN saw this last week, but remember that you can use Coursera-dl[1] to download the material for offline reference.

[1]: https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl

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I just tried it, did not work :(. Says failed to authenticate as username. I tried it on Saturday and it worked ok. Maybe they are blocking it?

It's working for me ... this was a godsend! Thanks a lot!

When was the last time you tried it?

Not working for me too with the same error.

Noticed the issue raised ( probably by you? ) - https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl/issues/81

Edit: Tried this one ( https://github.com/jplehmann/coursera ) and it too failed for login.

Yes that was me. I hope Coursera has not blocked it somehow...I think the dgorissen implementation is based on the other one, so not surprising the other one doesn't work either.

Are you running Firefox at the same time as the script? :)

https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl/issues/81

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