# Coursera authentication helper

> Coursera authentication helper for use with coursera-dl

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/coursera-authentication-helper](https://chrome-stats.com/d/coursera-authentication-helper)

## Overview

- **ID:** `coursera-authentication-helper`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** e-learning-archive
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 30
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2019-12-16
- **First published:** 2019-12-16
- **Size:** 20 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/coursera-authentication-helper/)

## Description

Coursera authentication helper is an extension that allows you to conveniently re-use your authentication details for Coursera with the open source coursera-dl software.

## Rankings

- #20,485 — Overall
- #47 — course
- #51 — mention
- #168 — location

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `cookies`
- `https://*.coursera.org/`
- `clipboardRead`
- `clipboardWrite`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/coursera-authentication-helper)