HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

[quinlanjohn]

youtube videos won't download just getting this in the terminal windwo help plz 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.

[jaimeMF]

You have probably downloaded too many videos, first make sure you can play the video in a browser from the same computer. If that works, please post the full output of `youtube-dl URL --verbose (as the message says).

[quinlanjohn]

it seems to be working again, i've only downloaded one song. i was downloading playlists when i got the error 429 message. I fixed the registry i think that's how i'm able to dl again. thanks for the reply :)

[JehandadK]

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkiAQGiG9d4 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--restrict-filenames', u'-r', u'3', u'-c', u'--write-sub', u'--download-archive', u'~/arhive.txt', u'-f', u'22']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkiAQGiG9d4', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.07.21
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-3.14.35-28.38.amzn1.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] bkiAQGiG9d4: 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; 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 314, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1731, 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)

Can someone take a look at this?

[jaimeMF]

@JehandadK see this FAQ entry and issue #5138.

[JehandadK]

Even when downloading a single video this issues exists on latest version

 youtube-dl --version
2015.07.21

When i downloaded a playlist this happened, I thought this maybe youtube rate limiting so i created another server with different public ip and tried downloading only one video but the same issue occured