can no longer download videos using youtube-dl, using a OVH server " Error
[0;31mERROR:[0m Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests (caused by
how do i fix this?
screenshot below of the error in ubuntu terminal

so follow-up on this discussion- is there some sort of rate-limiting that could be done? The problem sort of makes itself worse once it triggers since the bot then starts requesting a BUNCH of things in playlist order
We can, but with the tradeoff of not being able to get title and duration of the entry until we chose to get it later. This behavior is one of the features implemented in #1973 (untested) which can be enabled as an option. It is not a solution though.
We can't use google API to prevent ip blacklist?