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Fix header-based authentication documentation #135

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Expand Up @@ -111,7 +111,22 @@ JSESSIONID="ajax:xxxxxx"

## How do I setup header-based corporate account access?

If you have a corporate connected account you can fix the download issue by using a `headers.txt` as per below.
If you have a corporate connected account you can fix the download issue (where only frist 2 videos download successfully while others fail with "No video URL found" errors) by using a `headers.txt` as per below.

### Method 1: Using Developer Tools (Recommended)

1. Create a file named `headers.txt` and place it in the folder you want to download your courses to.
2. Open the Developer Tools in your browser:
- **Chrome**: Press `Ctrl+Shift+I` (Windows/Linux) or `Cmd+Option+I` (macOS)
- **Firefox**: Press `F12` or `Ctrl+Shift+I` (Windows/Linux) or `Cmd+Option+I` (macOS)
3. Go to the **Network** tab and refresh the page.
4. Filter requests by typing `linkedin.com/learning-api` in the filter box to find relevant API requests.
5. Click on any of the filtered requests and go to the **Headers** section.
6. In the **Request Headers** section, you can filter headers by typing `x-li-identity` to quickly find the header value.
7. Copy the `x-li-identity` header value.
8. Open the `headers.txt` file and paste in the values of `x-li-identity` and `User-Agent` as shown below:

### Method 2: Using Page Source (Alternative)

1. Create a file named `headers.txt` and place it in the folder you want to download your courses to
2. Right click on the page and select view source
Expand All @@ -121,6 +136,15 @@ If you have a corporate connected account you can fix the download issue by usin
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigmadkev/knowbee-hosting/master/assets/llvd_FindCodeInSourceCode.png" width="auto" height="auto"/>
5. Open the `headers.txt` file and paste in the values of `x-li-identity` from the above.

> [!NOTE]
> Page source may show HTML-encoded characters like `&#61;` which should be `=`:
> ```
> ❌ x-li-identity=MTU2NDI0NjQ5LDIxNzM4MTk1Nik&#61;
> ✅ x-li-identity=MTU2NDI0NjQ5LDIxNzM4MTk1Nik=
> ```

### Headers File Format

```sh
x-li-identity=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
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