Youtube Explode cant get player response while on hosting

[Nazar62]

Hello everyone! I build web API as my pet project in what i wanna learn how to host apps with docker. In that api I get captions from youtube and using OpenRouter make AI chat for asking questions about that video (I know that this idea isnt new but it is interesting for me to build one by myself). When I run it on localhost or in local docker (installed on my laptop) all works perfect until I host it on hosting. I tried koyeb and render as hosts but on all of these i have an error. When i try to get closed captions using GetManifestAsync method I always get error "Video 'id of the video' is not available" for all videos while on local host even if i try run it from code that i pushed on github from what that app builds on hosting all works fine on localhost. Maybe this piece of error log will give some clues YoutubeExplode.Exceptions.VideoUnavailableException: Video 'qqRf30bErMQ' is not available. at YoutubeExplode.Videos.VideoController.GetPlayerResponseAsync(VideoId videoId, CancellationToken cancellationToken) in /_/YoutubeExplode/Videos/VideoController.cs:line 149

[artur10563]

same issue, also with koyeb as hosting provider. Most likely youtube just block requests and you cant do anything about it. I`ve tried python ytDlp as alternative to yt explode, but have the same issue

[Tyrrrz]

Yes, this is the issue. YouTube blocks or heavily limits requests from IP addresses that map to well-known hosting providers. For example, GitHub Actions agents have the same issue.