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Offtopic but youtube doesn't allow me to view the embedded video, with a "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot" message. I need to open a dedicated youtube tab t

by lairv 2y ago

Offtopic but youtube doesn't allow me to view the embedded video, with a "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot" message. I need to open a dedicated youtube tab to watch it The barrier to scraping youtube has increased a lot recently, I can barely use yt-dlp anymore

ALittleLight 2y ago
That's funny. I was recently scraping tens of thousands of YouTube videos with yt-dlp. I would encounter throttling of some kind where yt-dlp stopped working, but I'd just spin a new VPS up and the throttled VPS down when that happened. The throttling effort cost me ~1 hour of writing the logic to handle it. I say that's funny because my guess would be they want to block larger scale scraping efforts like mine, but completely failed, while they attempt at throttling puts captchas in front of legitimate users.