youtube-transcript-api RequestBlocked and IpBlocked on cloud servers, and what actually fixes it
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If you've used youtube-transcript-api you've probably seen this. It works on your laptop. You deploy it to AWS or a VPS or some serverless thing, and every call dies with RequestBlocked or IpBlocked . I've hit this a lot while building transcript scrapers. This week I reran it from scratch to get r…
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youtube-transcript-api RequestBlocked and IpBlocked on cloud servers, and what actually fixes it