Do we know the limitations of youtube?

[triplesixman]

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• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Hello,

Do we know the limitations of youtube? I want to create a website who allows the download of youtube videos. But I guess that Google put some limitations by ip in the server. I want to know how many videos can be download from 1 ip, and how many by hours, days... max

I see that the tool purpose to enable a proxy. I tried one (proxy6) but it's very slow when I download a video. Do you recommand a fast proxy ?

Thank you

[dstftw]

No concrete numbers are known. Also some hosters are known to have entire IP blocks already banned.