Guides to common scraping errors

Short fixes for the YouTube and Google Trends problems people hit most, with code we have run. See the GitHub repo for every scraper.

• youtube-transcript-api RequestBlocked / IpBlocked: how to fix it

  Why youtube-transcript-api raises RequestBlocked or IpBlocked, especially on AWS, GCP and Azure, and three ways to fix it, including a one-line import change.

• pytrends 429 TooManyRequestsError: how to fix it

  Why pytrends fails with 429 Too Many Requests, why retries rarely help, and a drop-in TrendReq replacement that keeps your existing code.

• YouTube Data API quotaExceeded: why it happens and how to fix it

  What the YouTube Data API quotaExceeded 403 error means, the current limits for search.list and other methods, when quota resets, and your options.

• How to export YouTube comments to CSV

  Three ways to get a YouTube video's comments into a CSV file: no code, one curl command, or Python, with the columns you get and what it costs.

• YouTube comments scrapers on Apify compared (November 2026)

  Prices, usage and ratings for the most used YouTube comments scrapers on Apify, with the cost of 10,000 comments on each, checked 2026-11-04.