HTTPError 429 When downloading from any url.

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/home/robot/Nitro$ /home/robot/Nitro/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl --dump-json -f best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qp5vcuMIlk -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--dump-json', u'-f', u'best', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qp5vcuMIlk', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.14
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.14.32-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.20-6, avprobe 9.20-6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/home/robot/Nitro/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 406, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/robot/Nitro/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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I get this error when I run the command on any file from any video service
Im using the node package of this in my nodejs project.
That means I am running this from my code, and the error crashes my server.
Running ubuntu 14.

[dstftw]

1. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#http-error-429-too-many-requests-or-402-payment-required
2. #5138.