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minus-squaretallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-218 hours agoYou might try again. I was blocked for a couple weeks after I pulled a bunch of videos from a channel using yt-dlp, and for a while YouTube required an account (which I will not get) from that IP. But a couple weeks later, things were working again.
minus-squaremesa@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·18 hours agoOk cool! I updated yt-dlp via pip, and it looks like its working again. No warnings or anything. Awesome.
You might try again. I was blocked for a couple weeks after I pulled a bunch of videos from a channel using
yt-dlp
, and for a while YouTube required an account (which I will not get) from that IP. But a couple weeks later, things were working again.Ok cool! I updated yt-dlp via pip, and it looks like its working again. No warnings or anything. Awesome.