X-Git-Url: https://git.rapsys.eu/youtubedl/blobdiff_plain/622cd1d46e5968ba6ca30802d8ff6e7da75ff146..96981814751d51f37fe7347060de3a51c982f5ec:/README.txt diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 045e0b1..168b131 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ that, remove the distribution's package, with a line like Afterwards, simply follow our manual installation instructions: - sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl - sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl + sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl + sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl hash -r Again, from then on you'll be able to update with sudo youtube-dl -U. @@ -1101,10 +1101,19 @@ above for how to update youtube-dl. HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests or 402: Payment Required These two error codes indicate that the service is blocking your IP -address because of overuse. Contact the service and ask them to unblock -your IP address, or - if you have acquired a whitelisted IP address -already - use the --proxy or --source-address options to select another -IP address. +address because of overuse. Usually this is a soft block meaning that +you can gain access again after solving CAPTCHA. Just open a browser and +solve a CAPTCHA the service suggests you and after that pass cookies to +youtube-dl. Note that if your machine has multiple external IPs then you +should also pass exactly the same IP you've used for solving CAPTCHA +with --source-address. Also you may need to pass a User-Agent HTTP +header of your browser with --user-agent. + +If this is not the case (no CAPTCHA suggested to solve by the service) +then you can contact the service and ask them to unblock your IP +address, or - if you have acquired a whitelisted IP address already - +use the --proxy or --source-address options to select another IP +address. SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character