pytube: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

This piece of code

from pytube import YouTube yt = YouTube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPEE9ZwTmy0')

Throws this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “test.py”, line 2, in <module> yt = YouTube(‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPEE9ZwTmy0’) File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytube/main.py”, line 91, in init self.prefetch() File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytube/main.py”, line 162, in prefetch self.watch_html = request.get(url=self.watch_url) File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytube/request.py”, line 36, in get return _execute_request(url).read().decode(“utf-8”) File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytube/request.py”, line 24, in _execute_request return urlopen(request) # nosec File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 223, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 532, in open response = meth(req, response) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 642, in http_response ‘http’, request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 564, in error result = self._call_chain(*args) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 504, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 756, in http_error_302 return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 532, in open response = meth(req, response) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 642, in http_response ‘http’, request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 570, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 504, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File “/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py”, line 650, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests