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Rob--W / cors-anywhere

CORS Anywhere is a NodeJS reverse proxy which adds CORS headers to the proxied request.
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429 (Too Many Requests) when trying to get meta data for YouTube videos #333

Closed ClydSpyd closed 3 years ago

ClydSpyd commented 3 years ago

Hello.

Firstly, thanks for the great tool!

I'm currently having an issue when trying to receive Youtube meta data to use a link previews on a site I'm working on. For this I use a Node Package named 'link-preview-js', which requires a CORS proxy server.

CORS-anywhere was working just fine initially, prepending the video URLs with the CORS-anywhere demo URL. Then I started to get this 'too many requests' error and so thought perhaps I'd made too many calls (even though I have not made many) and so I cloned the repo and hosted my own CORS-anywhere on Heroku. Strangely enough, I am still getting the error.

It only seems to happen on YouTube videos, as DailyMotion videos give me no error and return the data I need.

Any idea what may be causing this issue?

Many thanks, Dave

Rob--W commented 3 years ago

Look at the exact response body of the response. That will tell you whether the issue is with the proxy or the actual response from the server (i.e. YouTube).