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Hi,
I enounter a 429 too many request error.
How can I fix this issue? Thanks
[root@]# youtube-dl --verbose 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=U8r3oTVMtQ0'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=U8r3oTVMtQ0']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 (CPython) - Linux-3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.3.1611-Core
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] U8r3oTVMtQ0: Downloading webpage
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; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2238, 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 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)