My downloadspeed of my Youtube Downloads are being reduced/limited. What is the Problem?

[Why155]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

youtube-dl -v -i -f bestvideo+bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUUllb83Lugbka-rvF6Nutxg
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-i', '-f', 'bestvideo+bestaudio', 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUUllb83Lugbka-rvF6Nutxg']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2020-05-15-b18fd2b
[debug] Proxy map: {}

Description

WRITE DESCRIPTION HERE

youtube-dl -i -f bestvideo+bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUUllb83Lugbka-rvF6Nutxg

Try for yourself. At the beginning, downloadspeed is not reduced, but after some time it gets down to 80 or 50 kbs.
It is not my connection. I am suffering with this for a few weeks now, since i used youtube-dl again. Does anybody know something about that issue? If you have further questions ask me. I couldn't fix it. Currently I'm downloading something and it's reduced again. I always have to restart cmd.

I have another question. When youtube was taken down on github, you couldn't download youtube-dl anymore. I had a few youtube-dl.exe file stored and tried to use them anyways. I was really surprised, when i wanted to download youtube files. Youtube-dl was blocked completely. It didn't work. How is this possible? Can youtube block youtube-dl? Did it someone else? Who could and did block youtube-dl during this time? I need to know wether youtube-dl is under control or independend.

[ByteTemplar]

About speed, seems to be already an issue open:
#29326

About older versions, Google changes things and those probably dont even work anymore is my guess...

[matkoniecz]

PASTE VERBOSE LOG HERE

Your log is missing. Run youtube-dl --verbose whatever_other_parameters and copy its text - rather than image of a screen.

See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#bugs

Do not post screenshots of verbose logs; only plain text is acceptable.

[matkoniecz]

I have another question.

See https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#does-the-issue-involve-one-problem-and-one-problem-only

See last option in https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/new/choose

[mongolsteppe]

The only solution I've found so far is using yt-dlp, which uses the same syntax as youtube-dl. An example:
yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exampleURL

It works with complex queries as well e.g.:
yt-dlp -o "e:\TMC\%(autonumber)s.%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/channel/XYZ -f mp4 -i

So the only thing you need to change is youtube-dl for yt-dlp at the beginning of your command.

Credit to #29326 (comment)

PS: In the rare occasion, where you still find throttling issues (hasn't happened to me yet), add the following at the end of the call --throttled-rate 100K

[Muffo]

Thanks @mongolsteppe for pointing me to yt-dlp. I am a first time user of youtube-dl and had the same issue. yt-dlp worked much faster and is downloading at 10+MB/s instead of 50kB/s.

[HalvorRaknes]

I am using yt-dlp and am being throttled terribly. Yesterday I got download rates around 80 kB/s for most attempts. Restarting the download would result in normal speeds (3-8 MB/s) in about 1 of 5 tries. But today it started out with ubiquitous speeds of about 80 kB/s but now they're all down below 30 kB/s.

[rautamiekka]

I am using yt-dlp and am being throttled terribly. Yesterday I got download rates around 80 kB/s for most attempts. Restarting the download would result in normal speeds (3-8 MB/s) in about 1 of 5 tries. But today it started out with ubiquitous speeds of about 80 kB/s but now they're all down below 30 kB/s.

yt-dlp != youtube-dl, so if you're using the former you need to talk to them.

[dirkf]

Fixed in af9e725; use the nightly release.