Need suggestions for Youtube scraping proxy

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Resize1246

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Hi.

I want to buy some IP addresses to scrape Youtube videos / video metadata. I'll use it with yt-dlp tool.

I tried webshare.io data center proxies ($2.99 for 100). Only 30 of those worked, the other 70 were blocked by youtube.

Any suggestions? Thanks.
 
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YouTube blocks most datacenter IPs fast. For consistent scraping, go with real mobile (4G/5G) or residential proxies — they look like normal user traffic and avoid most blocks
 
Datacenter proxies are one of the worst quality ones, not enough for YouTube in most cases.
At least try to use residential proxies
 
Thanks both. Do you have any recommendations for mobile/residential proxies (or even high-quality data center IPs) that are low-cost? I have no requirements for the proxies apart from they can consistently scrape YT.
 
For YouTube scraping, datacenter proxies get flagged fast. You’ll get better results with mobile proxies or high-quality rotating residential IPs. I personally prefer mobile proxies since they use real carrier IPs, making them much harder for YouTube to detect. Combine that with slower request rates in yt-dlp to keep block rates low.
 
Mxlip45 said:
For YouTube scraping, datacenter proxies get flagged fast. You’ll get better results with mobile proxies or high-quality rotating residential IPs. I personally prefer mobile proxies since they use real carrier IPs, making them much harder for YouTube to detect. Combine that with slower request rates in yt-dlp to keep block rates low.
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thanks. Do you have any proxy provider recommendations?
 
Yeah YT catches onto datacenter proxies pretty quick. If you want better results, try mobile proxies, they are harder for YT to detect, but they’ll cost you more. You can check providers in the Proxies For Sale section. Make sure to test and review seller's reputation.
 
Resize1246 said:
Hi.

I want to buy some IP addresses to scrape Youtube videos / video metadata. I'll use it with yt-dlp tool.

I tried webshare.io data center proxies ($2.99 for 100). Only 30 of those worked, the other 70 were blocked by youtube.

Any suggestions? Thanks.
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I know many people use data center proxies because they’re cheap, but they’re extremely easy to detect. You should definitely invest in an anti-detect browser and mobile proxies. Especially for web scraping, they’re the kings of proxies—allowing you to work with far fewer blocks or captchas.
 
Partepechos said:
YouTube blocks most datacenter IPs fast. For consistent scraping, go with real mobile (4G/5G) or residential proxies — they look like normal user traffic and avoid most blocks
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the days of cheap scraping proxys are long
gone due to ip ranges getting blocked.
 
for yt-dlp specifically you don't need expensive residential proxies for metadata scraping. youtube's api and basic page requests are less aggressive with blocking than their video streaming endpoints. datacenter proxies can work if they're clean and you add proper rate limiting - the issue with webshare's $2.99 plan is that those ips are massively shared and most are already flagged by youtube. try a smaller provider with less abused ips or step up to residential if datacenter keeps failing.

also yt-dlp supports the --proxy flag and you can rotate proxies by scripting a wrapper that picks a random proxy from a list per request. add --sleep-interval and --max-sleep-interval flags to throttle requests naturally. if you're only scraping metadata and not downloading actual video files, your bandwidth usage will be minimal so even a small residential plan should be affordable.
 
It is bad choice to use Data center proxies for YouTube. You should opt for mobile proxies.
 
what you experienced is normal — YouTube blocks a lot of datacenter IPs.

For better success when scraping with tools like yt-dlp, high-quality residential proxies, preferably rotating, usually work much better.

Also, make sure to rotate user-agents and monitor IPs to reduce the chance of blocks.
 
Mobile and residential proxies are ideal for YouTube task.
 
More consistent results tend to come from residential or mobile proxies since the traffic looks closer to regular user activity.

At the same time, the request pattern matters more than the proxy label. Lower request rates, adding delays and avoiding rotation on every single request often helps reduce blocks, even when using clean IPs.
 
YouTube scraping proxy recommendations depend on what you are extracting. public video metadata like titles, views, comments: rotating residential works fine.

channel analytics needing authenticated scraping: static residential or ISP proxies, keep same IP per session. video content/transcripts: high bandwidth makes residential expensive, consider YouTube Data API v3 first since its free for 10K units/day.

comment scraping at scale: rotating residential with 2 to 3 second delays, handle continuation tokens properly. mobile 4G only needed if YouTube starts blocking your residential IPs aggressively which is uncommon for public data. start with cheapest working option and escalate proxy quality only when you hit blocks.
 
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