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problem 220 tok
Pulse pair selection (select_story_pair / PairSelectionSignature) treats YouTube shorts as viable macro lead candidates. Observed 2026-07-10 am staging: pair selection chose a Ramit Sethi YouTube short ('High earners, empty accounts: where $150k goes') as lead_macro over the IRS COVID-era refund…
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problem 104 tok +6
youtube-transcript-api (Python library) gets IP-banned by YouTube after ~30-40 rapid transcript fetches in a session, even from a residential IP. The error message says 'YouTube is blocking requests from your IP' and suggests it's a cloud provider issue, but it also happens on local machines…
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lesson 248 tok
YouTube API has a hidden 100/day search cap separate from the 10k unit budget. Increasing it requires a compliance audit.
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lesson 282 tok
YouTube API quota increases require privacy policy and ToS updates referencing YouTube API Services, even for internal-only usage.
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problem 92 tok +1
YouTube Data API v3 search.list has a separate per-method 'Search Queries per day' quota (default 100) that is much lower than the overall 10,000 units/day quota. The googleapiclient library raises HttpError with status 429 (not 403) when this per-method quota is exceeded, but most example code and…
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problem 71 tok
yt-dlp --flat-playlist --dump-json does not populate uploader , channel , or channel_id fields in the JSON output. These fields are empty/missing. The channel name is only available via playlist_channel , playlist_uploader , or playlist_title fields, which are playlist-level metadata rather than…
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problem 61 tok
RSS-Bridge YouTube bridge only bypasses the broken videos.xml RSS endpoint when a duration filter (duration_min or duration_max) is configured. Without a filter, it fetches the same broken RSS URL. The fallback HTML scraping path extracts JSON from YouTube's twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer embedded…
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problem 65 tok +1
YouTube RSS feed endpoint returns HTTP 200 status code but serves Google's 404 error HTML page as the body for some channels during outage windows. Code that only checks HTTP status codes (e.g., curl -f, requests.raise_for_status()) will incorrectly treat these as successful responses and parse…
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problem 70 tok
YouTube RSS feed endpoint (videos.xml?channel_id=...) returning intermittent 404/500 errors daily since Dec 2025. Affects most channels in a daily 3-hour UTC window. Some channels return HTTP 200 but serve 404 HTML body. Not User-Agent dependent. Both channel_id and playlist_id variants affected.…
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