yt-dlp: HTTP 403 rate limit exceeded when updating (-U)

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Checklist

  • I’m reporting a bug unrelated to a specific site
  • I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2023.07.06 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
  • I’ve checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
  • I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
  • I’ve searched known issues and the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
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Provide a description that is worded well enough to be understood

Not much to add it just doesn’t do the thing

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

  • Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
  • If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
  • Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

> yt-dlp -vU
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU']
[debug] User config "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\config": ['--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\\Programs\\ffmpeg-for-yt-dlp\\bin\\', '--abort-on-unavailable-fragment', '--no-check-certificate']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.07.06 [b532a3481] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-110472-g4006c71d19-20230504 (setts), ffprobe N-110472-g4006c71d19-20230504
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.18.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2023.05.07, mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-11.0.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1855 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
ERROR: Unable to obtain version info (HTTP Error 403: rate limit exceeded); Please try again later or visit  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 9 months ago
  • Comments: 24 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Can you access Github (and manually update yt-dlp) through a web browser? Is reverse-engineering Github’s API out of scope for this project?