Which proxy service works best for this api / youtube.com?

[ne1baf]

I'm a brightdata customer but I tried both residential and data center proxies, they both lead to 403. I tried scraperAPI and rotating proxies and after 200 attemps with residentatial proxies, still getting 403... ouch

Anyone has recommendations?

[achillion]

Anyone can answer this question please?
OP, do you have the answer?

I know some proxy services block youtube, and you need to pass through some hoops with KYC and stuff, but appart from that, i would love to know what people are using?

[ne1baf]

Hi, I used webshare's static residential proxies. You pay $6/mo and you get 20 proxies. Out of those, I usually got 10-15 working ones for YT. There is no KYC from what I remember. You just must make sure to not burn them because you cannot ask for a new one. Hope it helps.

transcript = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(video_id, languages=[lang], proxies=proxy)

[achillion]

Thank you for that, that's also what i ended up using. So far it's enough for my usage. Thanks

[jdepoix]

See my answer below! 😊

[jdepoix]

Hi @ne1baf!

Since I have been getting a lot of messages about which provider of residential proxies I would recommend, I have tested a lot of different providers throughout the last months to be able to give a well-founded recommendation. While there's certainly different viable options, I have found Webshare's Residential Proxies to work most reliably! Therefore I have added a Webshare integration in version v1.0.0 , to make setting it up as easy as possible:

from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi
from youtube_transcript_api.proxies import WebshareProxyConfig

ytt_api = YouTubeTranscriptApi(
	# username and password can be retrieved from https://dashboard.webshare.io/proxy/settings
	proxy_config=WebshareProxyConfig(
		proxy_username="<proxy-username>",
		proxy_password="<proxy-password>",
	)
)

# all requests done by ytt_api will now be proxied through Webshare
ytt_api.fetch(video_id)

Using the WebshareProxyConfig will default to using rotating residential proxies and requires no further configuration! 🪄

You can find more information on this in the new Working around IP bans section of the README!

[achillion]

Any breaking change with this 1.0 update?

[jdepoix]

If you want to use the new .fetch and .list methods, yes! But the old static methods (get_transcript, get_transcripts and list_transcripts) can still be used, to make the transition to the new version as easy as possible. However, they have been deprecated and will be removed in a future version!

You'll find more details on these changes in the v1.0.0 release notes!