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Error: status code 403

See original GitHub issue

Did youtube update their api?

My code worked yesterday.

The error:

[9020:0217/192331:ERROR:nw_shell.cc(324)] Error: status code 403
    at Request.<anonymous> (app_path\node_modules\ytdl-core\lib\index.js:67:16)
    at Request.emit (events.js:116:17)
    at Request.onResponse (app_path\node_modules\ytdl-core\node_modules\request\request.js:958:10)
    at ClientRequest.g (events.js:202:16)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:116:17)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient [as onIncoming] (_http_client.js:420:21)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:113:23)
    at Socket.socketOnData (_http_client.js:311:20)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:116:17)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:164:16)
[9020:0217/192331:INFO:CONSOLE(94)] "Uncaught Error: status code 403", source: events.js (94)

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:37 (11 by maintainers)

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poidecommented, Jun 19, 2020

Just had this error too, my code worked just fine and then it doesnt, tried to change the api I use to search in yt and still got error 403. So I did what @drepram said, and generated another api key, and now it works again. Thank you @drepram !

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drepramcommented, Jun 23, 2020

Hi, been 5 years but I had the same error today and I fixed it by generating another API key in Google Developer Console.

The error was:

{ Error: Request failed with status code 403
    at createError (/Users/acp/Works/Megana/ytscrape/node_modules/axios/lib/core/createError.js:16:15)
    at settle (/Users/acp/Works/Megana/ytscrape/node_modules/axios/lib/core/settle.js:18:12)
    at IncomingMessage.handleStreamEnd (/Users/acp/Works/Megana/ytscrape/node_modules/axios/lib/adapters/http.js:202:11)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:203:15)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1145:12)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
  config: { a lot of things }