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YouTube Blocked my IP (and sent DMCA's to my ISP) - Workarounds? #1117

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There have been several recommendations and anecdotes in other answers; I'm going to try to consolidate a bit of what was said along with a general answer to this question:

With moderate/intermittent usage, JMusicBot is unlikely to draw a ban from YouTube. My copy has been running for years without this issue. There's a few things that you can do to decrease the amount of calls to YouTube, as well as improve its bandwidth usage:

  • Utilize the alonetimeuntilstop parameter in the config file. There is rarely a reason for the bot to be playing music to an empty voice channel.
  • Download the songs you plan to play locally (especially if they are long or you plan to play them repeatedly), and the…

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