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It seems youtube banned me with "Error 429: Too Many Requests" for downloading too much? #22983
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Yes. Youtube does this. I'm not sure if it's a ban really since no one has reported they've been also blocked on the www-site. |
Hi @Zuccace , thanks very much for your answer! Are they known to unban me after some time? By now it's been 4 days, still the same... |
I don't know how youtube handles these internally. But I investigated more, and it seems that "greylisted" IPs need to solve catchpa. I figured this out by sandboxing a seperate browser session and using a proxy server. There isn't much I, or youtube-dl devs can do right now. :( This really sucks since I cannot usually watch 4k content directly on browser because my internet connection is very unstable. The obvious answer has been to use youtube-dl. We can just hope someone comes up with a working patch. |
Oh yes! Thanks for finding that catchpa behavior! Indeed, it's very easy to reproduce. Just open an incognito window and click any youtube video, boom there's the catchpa. I hope it'll go away on its own after some time, I'll report back when it does. |
same issue here... no solution? |
Hi @ZYinMD,
Have you been unbanned? Thanks. |
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Yesterday I was downloading several thousand songs from youtube with
--extract-audio
, by having over a hundred playlists in my url file. Today I woke up and found half was done, the second half were all blocked byError 429: Too Many Requests
. Then I tested with some other random non-music videos, same result.I have no problem watching youtube in browser though.
Is youtube known to do this? Will I get unbanned after a while?
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