Subj : youtube-dl?
To   : Ron Lauzon
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Jan 23 2022 01:36 pm


 On 2022 Jan 23 10:52:00, you wrote to Rob Swindell:

 RS>> BTW, I can confirm, youtube-dl is very slow (e.g. 52.56KiB/s) these
 RS>> days. But I think it's been that way for a while now, at least for
 RS>> me.

 RL> Same here.  But only for YouTube.  Other sites work much faster.  So I
 RL> think YouTube is throttling.

one way to find out would be to take a look at the sources and see what user agent is being used... then change it and see what happens... it may be that the tool is identifying itself and a more generic browser UA could be used...

[edit]

i just found the --dump-user-agent command line option... i don't see anything that appears to allow one to specify a different UA...

$ /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --dump-user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.50 Safari/537.36

of course, YT might also be analyzing how the downloads are being done and throttling based on certain flow patterns they are seeing...

but then i look at the following and wonder...

$ /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp --dump-user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.164 Safari/537.36

the only difference i see is the Chrome version... hummm :thinking:

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