error and mp4 download issue

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Hi Bright,

I think the previous error is caused by my local network restriction. But the error like below always appears whether I use VPN to bypass restriction or not:

ERROR: UnicodeEncodeError - 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xa5' in position 21140: ordinal not in range(128)

When I use VPN, the ssl error like below doesn’t appear.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 559, in urlopen
body=body, headers=headers)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 345, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 784, in validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 252, in connect
ssl_version=resolved_ssl_version)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl.py", line 305, in ssl_wrap_socket
return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 376, in wrap_socket
_context=self)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 747, in init
self.do_handshake()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 983, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 628, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLEOFError: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:646)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 376, in send
timeout=timeout
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 588, in urlopen
raise SSLError(e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.SSLError: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:646)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "futurelearn-dl.py", line 536, in
token, cookies = getToken(session, SIGNIN_URL)
File "futurelearn-dl.py", line 144, in getToken
response = session.get(url, headers=headers)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 480, in get
return self.request('GET', url, *_kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 468, in request
resp = self.send(prep, *_send_kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 576, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 447, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:646)

But when it downloads mp4, it takes so long and I’m not sure whether it’s working.

Downloading 6-week course 'inside-cancer'
ERROR: UnicodeEncodeError - 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xa5' in position 21140: ordinal not in range(128)
Downloading urlhttps://ugc.futurelearn.com/uploads/files/23/bc/23bc970a-2eaa-457e-90b8-564dc5de5c24/IC6S1_Models_used_in_Cancer_Research_6_1.pdf ...
type=pdf, content.len=191414
Downloading urlhttps://ugc.futurelearn.com/uploads/files/06/69/066931f3-d9cb-4008-85a4-34362eeb53c5/IC6_S1_Models_used_in_Cancer_Research.pdf ...
type=pdf, content.len=1631448
Downloading urlhttps://view.vzaar.com/1435674/video ...

I wait 30 minutes and it’s still on that line. How can I see the progress and know whether it’s downloading the file? And can you give some option in your code and output a list of urls and the corresponding file names in a file? The code like coursera-dl and edx-dl have some option like that. Thank you.

Best regards.

Rui Guo