Hey, yes, now PacktPub login has a captcha so this script won't work. Sorry, it was fun while it lasted.

Luckily. Packt has just unlocked all claimed items from free learning available to download as epub, mobi and pdf formats. Your code has been caught by Packt and so they changed their code

RE: it was fun while it lasted
Yes it was, kudos on the good work.

RE: login has a captcha so this script won't work
Web automation maybe? Launch a browser, login manually, automate away....just a thought. :)

Bad news, Packt has just 'fixed' their bug. The free learning is no longer available to download as offline formats

Good news: the downloader is working again!

sadly not today for me but thanks

it was fun while it lasted

Error login,  check user and password
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "packtpub-downloader-async/main.py", line 403, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "packtpub-downloader-async/main.py", line 388, in main
    user = User(email, password, quiet)
  File "/home/reiner/packtpub-downloader-async/user.py", line 25, in __init__
    self.header["Authorization"] = self.get_token(self.quiet)
  File "/home/reiner/packtpub-downloader-async/user.py", line 41, in get_token
    print("Error {}".format(e))
NameError: name 'e' is not defined

Probably the anti-not measure has been fixed by Packt. RIP.

me too, but strange thing.. on my mac works, on my rpi not

as of the 25th of februari 2020, I have just tested this script, and it seems to work fine. It's downloading all date in all formats right now(maybe you've fixed in in the meantime?) for passwords containing special characters just make sure you use single quotes, as in -p 'P@ssWord!1', otherwise it won't be escaped properly :)

One day it works, another day ist does not.

I added a print statement to see what the auth gets back.
When it does not work, the reason for this seems to be a missing captcha answer:
{'message': 'The recaptcha solution is missing.', 'errorCode': 7000035, 'errorId': '7b79509d-b03c-4d29-ae32-20f3ed7dc6b2'}

Some time later, the same call works just fine and the downloader manages to pull all the missing content.