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Impossible to download #5905

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qlaffont opened this issue Jun 6, 2015 · 1 comment
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Impossible to download #5905

qlaffont opened this issue Jun 6, 2015 · 1 comment

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@qlaffont qlaffont commented Jun 6, 2015

i have this error :

root@srv:/usr/local/bin# youtube-dl -x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSp-eYpRqo
[youtube] reSp-eYpRqo: 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.

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@jaimeMF jaimeMF commented Jun 6, 2015

You have propably download too many videos, see this FAQ entry (issue #5138 may also help). If you can't watch the video on the browser using the same computer youtube-dl can't download it.

Side note: don't run youtube-dl as the root user.

@jaimeMF jaimeMF closed this Jun 6, 2015
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