ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

[FykDev]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.09.12.1
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-f', u'(mp4)[height<720][protocol=https]', u'--get-url', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMrQjkZXkjA']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.09.12.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.4.1708-Core
[debug] exe versions: none
[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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2229, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 469, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 656, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

Extracting video Url of YouTube video has started to result an error as "Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests ..."

[FykDev]

Hello @dstftw . Issue was closed, but I could not see any explanation. Is there something i missed or i do something wrong? Please help me why i am resulting this "Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests" error.

[nikooo777]

there are countless issues with this exact problem, it's because youtube is throttling users downloading from their site. It's not ytdl's fault