YouTube error code
429
YouTube has temporarily stopped accepting requests from your internet connection because too many arrived in a short period.
YouTube has temporarily stopped accepting requests from your internet connection because too many arrived in a short period. This is rarely about you personally. It usually happens on shared connections such as an office, a campus, a hotel, or through a VPN where hundreds of people appear to YouTube as a single address. The block lifts by itself.
You may also see
- “Too Many Requests”
- “429. That's an error.”
Try this first
Wait, then try again
15 minutes- 1.Leave it for ten to fifteen minutes without reloading.
- 2.Repeatedly refreshing makes it worse, because each refresh counts as another request.
- 3.Try again after that.
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Where this code shows up
Mostly on Web browser, Android, iPhone. If you’re on something else, the fixes above still apply — the menu names will differ.
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Checked 2026-08-06 · source