Thread 105804062

Will Google ban my account and block my IP from accessing YouTube if I use yt-dlp to batch download hundreds of gigabytes of videos at 1gbps? I need to download a few thousand videos from many different channels to complete my collection of old cartoons but I don't want to risk getting blocked from YouTube, especially since my isp doesn't let me change my ip address for the life of my account.

>>105804062 (OP)
Yes, I've had it happen to me. Supposedly the ban will go away if go a few weeks without trying access YouTube, but realistically you're going to need to change your IP. If you need to download a lot of videos from YouTube, use a VPN and limit how quickly ytdlp makes requests. I personally have have ytdlp delay 1 minute between requests.

>>105804203
It's literally impossible for me to change my IP so I guess I'm going to have to just use a VPN. I can't limit the rate either because some of the playlists I'm downloading from have hundreds of videos in them and it would take forever then.

>>105804062 (OP)
i'm pretty sure you can download all you want as long as you pass cookies from a youtube account
what happens if you download a bunch of vids is you get the "sign in to confirm you are not a bot" error... so yeah you can sign in by giving yt-dlp the cookies and then you are done

>>105804307
>I can't limit the rate either
lmao if you dont rate limit thats an obvious sign of scrapping you shouldnt download faster than it takes to play the videos

If I've learned anything it's that Google is completely arbitrary in its judgment.
I've mirrored tons of shit pretty rapidly yet friends of mine will get rate limited quickly. Why? Who knows. Google knows enough about me to deem me a safe human from this machine I guess, using whatever metrics they randomly came up with.

>>105804203
NTA, didn't realize this was a thing. Thanks for the info

>>105804307
>It's literally impossible for me to change my IP
Can't you just drop your ISP for a few days and then sign up again? I don't know if you're in an area that forces contracts but this sounds like the way to go.

>>105804203
>download a lot of videos from YouTube, use a VPN
whenever I have tried this I get a message youtube has blocked my ip or the api is blocked

>>105804062 (OP)
--limit-rate 4M --sleep-requests 5 --sleep-subtitles 5 --sleep-interval 60 --max-sleep-interval 90

Wtf? Since when did you need an account to download videos from YouTube using yt-dlp?

what the fuck is going on. it's like you new-gen scrapers have forgotten about rate-limiting.

>>105804062 (OP)
Probably yes, thats why you need an alt, in case you want to pass cookies to yt-dlp.
>b-b-b-but muh phone number
buy one online that costs around a dollar. DO NOT use free ones.

>will bad things happen if I break their ToS
Duh.

>>105804062 (OP)
I did download ~600 music videos from youtube in batch, but only at ~60 Mbps and got rate limited after about 120 videos, waited a few minutes and resumed the download, this worked fine without a ban, but I think that if you download at 1 GBps you will definitely get banned.
I'd suggest to either limit your download speed, or wait between downloads a few minutes. Or you can try with a VPN

>>105807624
Can confirm, I got rate limited around 100 music videos too. I just used a VPN to get around it

>>105804062 (OP)
>complete my collection of old cartoons
Whatever you're looking for exists somewhere else, retard. Looney Tunes?

>>105805130
nice nigga

>>105808589
No it doesn't. I'm downloading public domain cartoons from the 1910s and 1920s that don't exist anywhere. Sometimes I find stuff on archive.org, but most of it is only on YouTube.

>>105804062 (OP)
>I need to download a few thousand videos from many different channels to complete my collection of old cartoons
are you fr?
>>105809334
what the hell are you talking about?
How did this stuff end up on yt if it’s not anywhere else?

>>105805130
This. Retards don't know how to RTFM.

>>105804062 (OP)
in my experience they don't ban your account outright, but they block you from downloading. you can still watch videos fine though. i basically had to swap between a VPN every 4-8 hours (downloads capped at 4MB) because it would block the IP. downloading in safari mode was the only thing that bypassed the age restrictions/sign-in nags on most videos.

>>105804062 (OP)
>at 1gbps
cute to think they would give you that

Does this mean that the video wasn't downloaded correctly? There was also a bunch of "opening cloudfront.net link" before this. I haven't had a chance to watch the full video yet but it seems ok.

>>105810837
Twitch btw

I need to download my 4000 large video playlist, it's slowly getting privated or deleted. It holds big ammount of videos with only hundreds of views on them.

>>105810796
With jdownloader you can download 20 files simultaneously with 20 simultaneous connections per file, so you can definitely max out a 1gbps connection doing that.

>>105804062 (OP)
My IP keeps getting banned from YouTube every other day due to me using freetube, I have a static IP, but I thankfully get unbanned an hour or two later most of the time.

>>105804062 (OP)
>ban my account
don't use cookies.
if you download a bunch otherwise you might get your IP blocked for a few hours. just rate limit like the other anon said

>>105804570
I remember some Anons saying that they'll end up banning that account too
I guess you'd have to make new accounts until the ban is lifted from the previous ones

>>105811669
source: doesn't exist
google isn't banning accounts for this lmao

>>105804203
The most I got was a day, I caught bans using newpipe but not freetube which might be them being more hyper focused on mobile if they can even track that.

>>105811669
i think they only ban frequent offenders that are harvesting data at high rates and don't interact with any other google services at all, those are just bot accounts

>>105804062 (OP)
I use aTubeCatcher to download my vids and nothing ever happens. Should I be worried?

>>105812065
as long as you aren't downloading huge amounts of video every day you should be fine, i guess whatever method they use doesn't register as a bot download the way ytdlp and other services do now

>>105812065
why the fuck are you still using that shitware in 2025

>>105804062 (OP)
Youtube will first block yt-dlp downloads, prompting you to sign in
Then it will prohibit watching videos in your browser, prompting you to sign in
Then after about a month youtube will forget about it.

>>105804307
Call your ISP and tell them to change it

>>105813697
>again?

Hijacking OP's thread for a question of my own. What's the best way of scraping tags at the moment? It seems you can't properly scrape tags via the API anymore. I've tried, but it was pretty lackluster. Would the best option to just install something like VidIQ and then run a script that loads up the video's web page and saves the tags that VidIQ provides?
>>105804307
? Why tf are you on a static IP? Usually you have to pay extra to get a static IP, or are you student or something?

>>105813697
>i am sorry saar but i am unable to complete this request to your full satisfaction due to internal company policies

>>105814153
You can, I did exactly that just a few days ago.
I know Google's documentation is embarrassingly bad, but read it anyway.

>>105813697
>>105814153
You can't, it's not possible with AT&T fiber. They tie your IP address to your account so even if you completely change your gateway router, it still assigns you the same IP and their customer service has no ability to change it either. The only way to get a new one is to pay them an extra $30 a month for a block of 5 static IPs.

yt-dlp + bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider + vpn, monitoring 1155 channels without a ban

>>105817635
land of the free amirite

>>105806152
I think what OP means is he's passing a cookies file or something along with the command, authenticating him to download age-restricted videos and reduced chance of getting blocked overall. you basically just add --cookies and the path to a NETSCAPE formatted cookies file. Had to do this myself back when youtube-dl was still a thing.

>>105804307
What the fuck are you talking about? Like do you need to do a presentation on these videos in 3 days or what? What's the issue with staggering it over a 2 week period?

Dumbasses like to make problems for themselves.

out of curiosity I went to check Youtube's robots.txt file to see if they Disallow web crawlers (obv assume they do, but wanted to verify it on my own).

https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt
These are its contents:
# robots.txt file for YouTube
# Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after
# the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /comment
Disallow: /feeds/videos.xml
Disallow: /file_download
Disallow: /get_video
Disallow: /get_video_info
Disallow: /get_midroll_info
Disallow: /live_chat
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /qr
Disallow: /results
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /t/terms
Disallow: /timedtext_video
Disallow: /verify_age
Disallow: /watch_ajax
Disallow: /watch_fragments_ajax
Disallow: /watch_popup
Disallow: /watch_queue_ajax
Disallow: /youtubei/

Sitemap: https://www.youtube.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.youtube.com/product/sitemap.xml


tl;dr they Disallow crawling, so be sure to rate limit

-limit-rate 4M --sleep-requests 5 --sleep-subtitles 5 --sleep-interval 60 --max-sleep-interval 90

>>105804062 (OP)
Just use a VPN. What is the point of this thread?