[Question] Too Many Requests!

[mbnoimi]

Checklist

• I'm asking a question
• I've looked through the README and FAQ for similar questions
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar questions including closed ones

Question

I still get HTTPError 429: Too Many Requests! although I use --sleep-interval 5 as shown below:

youtube-dlc --newline -i --force-ipv4 --age-limit 30 -R 99 --hls-prefer-native -o /home/laptop/Downloads/youtube-dl/downloads/Documentary/DW/%(title)s.%(ext)s -f mp4 --merge-output-format mp4 --write-sub --sub-format srt --sub-lang en --embed-subs --continue --sleep-interval 5 --download-archive /home/laptop/Downloads/youtube-dl/downloads/Documentary/DW/ytdl-archive.txt https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCET6sWl4Xcu-U8Ka9PJPrwA/videos

How can I bypass this issue?

UPDATE: youtube-dlc ver. 2020.11.7

[pukkandan]

I have found that using cookies fixes the issue

[pukkandan]

On a sidenote, channel extraction is currently broken. See #148

[mbnoimi]

I have found that using cookies fixes the issue

How can I do it (example please)?

[Ch4h3d]

How can I do it (example please)?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/62213935

[blackjack4494]

Question

I still get HTTPError 429: Too Many Requests! although I use --sleep-interval 5 as shown below:
How can I bypass this issue?

Send less requests, obviously 😆
Jokes aside. --sleep-interval is only dealing with audio/video downloads. If you download lots of subtitles you could use --sleep-subtitles as well - it should take some number as input.

What I have been experimenting with is actually to throttle the actual api requests that usually helps. But there is no parameter for that as of now and I am unsure whether this can be implemented globally or for youtube only (will need quite some work either way).
When I was fixing the history feed I noticed that when I reach 50-60 of 100+ pages it will return me some 429s. However when I put a 1-2s timeout in between each request I did not get any 429s.

For cookies you can use this
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg
export as netscape

[IMIEEET]

im getting same error (too many requests)
by running this
youtube-dlc -f 140 --embed-thumbnail 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCLAK5uy_kLWIr9gv1XLlPbaDS965-Db4TrBoUTxQ8'
running version 2020.11.11-3
edit: cookies is the solution

[IMIEEET]

Why do you get that error?

idk but maybe bcz of my vpn(before that yt showed me that capcha thing).

[IMIEEET]

I found why, is is because you have downloaded for extensive amount of times, so you are getting a warning (too many requests)
It just happened with me right no, so slow down the download or change the ip address using a vpn, that way you have to do a good amount of download before you get another warning for that up address and so on

you dont have to download a lot for this to happend. its VPN. many users may get same ip. maybe they are doing a lot of downloads and this will happend to everyone who is connected to same vpn server and using google services. anyway i have to use vpn to access yt since its censored/sanctioned here. i have to reconnect another server when this happens