Method to Download Any Skillshare Premium Course using Google Colab (no Skillshare account needed)

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Sometimes, you need to learn how to interpret the error code.

HTTP 403 is a HTTP status code meaning access to the requested resource is forbidden for some reason. The server understood the request, but will not fulfill it due to client-related issues.

Busted, Google Colab has just been blocked the access. I believed someone has just leeched too much bandwidth, and as a consequence they blocked the IP.

what to do now?

Wait..! It may take days or weeks for the Skillshare giving the access back again.

How do you know when it is back again?

In Google Colab, try this command

!wget {skillshre_course_url}

if you see “Success” or a number of 200, you are good to go
If you see “Forbidden” or a number of 403 and IP (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx), meaning that Google Colab is still blocked by the Skillshare

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Hey is the hack fixed now??? It’s not working for me anymore

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Hey, how about checking it yourself? :thinking:

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Where do I need to enter this command?

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It works like charm until yesterday. But today i got this error while tryng to download

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/dl.py”, line 50, in
main()
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/dl.py”, line 11, in main
dl.download_course_by_url(course_url)
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 29, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 32, in download_course_by_class_id
data = self.fetch_course_data_by_class_id(class_id=class_id)
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 69, in fetch_course_data_by_class_id
assert res.status_code == 200, ‘Fetch error, code == {}’.format(res.status_code)
AssertionError: Fetch error, code == 403

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yes, where should it be? :thinking:

If you use Google Colab, you should be able to identify right away.

Please tell me if you read all comments before posting.

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how about reading all of the comments first?

3 people just asked the same question!

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Oh ok. Google Collab blocked by Skillshare. Got it

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Just wait for the time.

I believed it’s blocked by automated system, which will be unbanned soon. As said, it’d be days or weeks.

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Not only google colab, I tried on my server and got error 203 as well…

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Were you able to resolve this ?

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please help me i have this problem and i don’t know how to fixe it please Help Me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/dl.py”, line 50, in
main()
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/dl.py”, line 11, in main
dl.download_course_by_url(course_url)
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 29, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 32, in download_course_by_class_id
data = self.fetch_course_data_by_class_id(class_id=class_id)
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 69, in fetch_course_data_by_class_id
assert res.status_code == 200, ‘Fetch error, code == {}’.format(res.status_code)
AssertionError: Fetch error, code == 403

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im getting same issue

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/dl.py”, line 50, in
main()
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/dl.py”, line 11, in main
dl.download_course_by_url(course_url)
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 29, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 32, in download_course_by_class_id
data = self.fetch_course_data_by_class_id(class_id=class_id)
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 69, in fetch_course_data_by_class_id
assert res.status_code == 200, ‘Fetch error, code == {}’.format(res.status_code)
AssertionError: Fetch error, code == 403

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@soultana_soultana @Gurpratap_Sangha @Sumit_Pattnaik

Were you able to read all comments above?

I believed I made it clear on why the code is not working

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Update: Working as of today 14/6/20

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i wasn’t expecting it will work that much smoothly . very nice script bro

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Awesome!! If possible pls pls help us get PLURALSIGHT courses using a similar script. That would be really appreciated.

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We don’t even need an account for doing that :rofl:

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Thanks for the confirmation. As said, it will take a while.

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It was okay but not anymore and it gives me this message when I reach to this stage

Run this Cell to Download Skillshare Course

=======
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/.Skillshare-DL/dl.py”, line 33, in
main()
File “/root/.Skillshare-DL/dl.py”, line 11, in main
dl.download_course_by_url(course_url)
File “/root/.Skillshare-DL/skillshare.py”, line 29, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File “/root/.Skillshare-DL/skillshare.py”, line 32, in download_course_by_class_id
data = self.fetch_course_data_by_class_id(class_id=class_id)
File “/root/.Skillshare-DL/skillshare.py”, line 69, in fetch_course_data_by_class_id
assert res.status_code == 200, ‘Fetch error, code == {}’.format(res.status_code)
AssertionError: Fetch error, code == 403

So please let me know what to do!!!

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