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I am trying to youtube-dl to get metadata information of some videos. It was working fine till dec 2020. Recently It started giving me this error "YouTube said: Unable to extract video data". What did i try?

  1. Update to latest youtube-dl: I did this everyday till dec 28
  2. I tried using command line and python library
  3. I used the option to remove cache directory (--rm-cache-dir)
  4. Use different VPNs and try downloading it.

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg --skip-download --rm-cache-dir They blocked it after i downloaded info for ~30k videos. Can anyone tell me how youtube is detecting my machine and if there is a way to bypass it using youtube-dl

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Suddenly after few days reinstalling the youtube-dl library fixed this issue.

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