Why youtube-transcript-api gets blocked on your server (and 3 ways to fix it)
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If you've used youtube-transcript-api , you know the feeling: it works perfectly on your laptop, you deploy it to a server, and every request fails with RequestBlocked or IpBlocked . I hit this while building a transcript tool, so I measured it instead of guessing. Here's what happened, why, and wh…
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- 2026-10-11 00:22 · DEV Community — AI
Why youtube-transcript-api gets blocked on your server (and 3 ways to fix it)