yt-dlp: [youtube] Skipping player response / HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests / Video Not Available

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Downloading any video currently gives me the error of “No Video formats found” @coletdjnz already said it seems to be related to the API giving 429 responses. Here is my verbose log:

yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y7aFRsM7vRU" -v
[debug] Command-line config: ['https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y7aFRsM7vRU', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.03.04 [392389b7d]
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-5.15.0-56-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29 (OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020, glibc 2.31)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n4.4-179-gcb0a1bb805-20211011 (fdk,setts), ffprobe n4.4-179-gcb0a1bb805-20211011
[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 1822 extractors
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y7aFRsM7vRU
[youtube] y7aFRsM7vRU: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [youtube] Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests
[youtube] y7aFRsM7vRU: Downloading android player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] Skipping player response from android client (got player response for video "aQvGIIdgFDM" instead of "y7aFRsM7vRU"); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
[youtube] y7aFRsM7vRU: Downloading iframe API JS
[youtube] y7aFRsM7vRU: Downloading player bbe1b497
[youtube] y7aFRsM7vRU: Downloading web player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] Skipping player response from web client (got player response for video "aQvGIIdgFDM" instead of "y7aFRsM7vRU"); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
[youtube] y7aFRsM7vRU: Downloading initial data API JSON
WARNING: Extractor failed to obtain "title". Creating a generic title instead
ERROR: [youtube] y7aFRsM7vRU: No video formats found!; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1552, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1649, in __extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1708, in process_ie_result
    ie_result = self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 2650, in process_video_result
    self.raise_no_formats(info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1066, in raise_no_formats    raise ExtractorError(msg, video_id=info['id'], ie=info['extractor'],
yt_dlp.utils.ExtractorError: [youtube] y7aFRsM7vRU: No video formats found!; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U

I made sure to update to the latest version using this command:

sudo python3 -m pip install --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git --no-cache-dir --upgrade

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Complete Verbose Output

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.03.04 [392389b7d]
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-5.15.0-56-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29 (OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020, glibc 2.31)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n4.4-179-gcb0a1bb805-20211011 (fdk,setts), ffprobe n4.4-179-gcb0a1bb805-20211011
[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 1822 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Available version: stable@2023.03.04, Current version: stable@2023.03.04
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2023.03.04)