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Download Plurasight Courses with youtube-dl.md
create `youtube-dl.bat` file and paste all this below code
> youtube-dl.exe --output "c:/YourDownloadPath/Pluralsight%%(playlist)s%%(chapter_number)s - %%(chapter)s%%(playlist_index)s - %%(title)s.%%(ext)s" --cookies "pluralsight_cookie.txt" --no-overwrites --no-post-overwrites --verbose --write-sub --rate-limit 1M --add-header Referer:"https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses" --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36 Edg/92.0.902.62" --batch-file=batch_filelist_pluralsight.txt
> pause
* Go to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent make a note of your user agent i.e. `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36 Edg/92.0.902.62`
* Install [EditThisCookie](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg) extension, go to settings and set format (defaults to JSON) to Netscape HTTP Cookie file
* Login into Pluralsight using Edge/Chrome
* Click on the EdiThisCookie icon, select Export, paste the cookies copied texts into a file called `pluralsight_cookie.txt` (create a `pluralsight_cookie.txt` file in the same directory as `youtube-dl.bat` directory)
* create a `batch_filelist_pluralsight.txt` file in the same directory as `youtube-dl.bat` directory and past your Pluralsight course links on this file `batch_filelist_pluralsight.txt` (one link per row)
i.e `https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/YourCourseLink`
Note: after downloading a few videos, Plurasight will ban your account this way.
Enjoy
Working as of 7-Aug-2021
@anumomin
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is it still working?
I tried and doesn't seems to work.

@pratikbin
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pratikbin commented Nov 16, 2021

Yes working, but there is no way to escape account banning. Their system is so good.

@anumomin
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Hi Prakit,
It will let you download at least 3 4 courses?
I don't mind ban...
I followed steps but still having issue 503 error I get

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