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Fixing YouTube transcript blocks on servers

Every guide below includes real error output and code we ran. Free options come first.

• Fix youtube-transcript-api RequestBlocked and IpBlocked: the cause, a block-check script, proxies, and a free-first fallback.
• "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot": yt-dlp cookies, JS runtimes, and why blocks are intermittent.
• Transcripts failing on AWS, GCP or GitHub Actions: a reproduced Actions log, a Lambda handler, and a workflow.

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Tools: shephouse-yt (drop-in client) · shephouse-yt-mcp (MCP server for Claude/Cursor agents) · YouTube Transcript Actor on Apify · all ShepHouse Actors