So it turns out that the overnight gaps in @lofibeats's YouTube thing is YouTube going into HTTP 429 mode. Presumably the problem is other machines from my VPS provider hammering the APIs, because I can't see my one-request-per-hour causing any rate-limiting problems!
Maybe I should look into using the proper search API, just to be a better neighbor. Google charges money for that though. :(
Oh, huh, turns out YouTube's been having lots of outages where it responds 429 to everyone. https://piunikaweb.com/2021/04/26/youtube-down-and-not-working-for-many-server-throwing-error-429/ Guess there's not a lot I can do about that except continue with the current failure mode of just not providing a video if none comes up.
okay, switching to the YouTube data API wasn't that bad and it turns out they give you like 100 requests per day for free. The developer docs fucking suck though, especially when it comes to using an API key instead of oauth.
@fluffy Mm, I've been seeing quite a bit of that glitchiness "high level of requests from your network", which might mean me downloading four music videos a day, or the entire cellular carrier. ^_^; Tends to persist, but always goes away within a few hours.
@porsupah yeah, although in this case my bot was actually running into the bot detection, somehow, despite only making one lightweight request per hour. Hopefully switching to the official API fixes it for good.
@fluffy Would Google ever let you down? =:)
@porsupah yes, constantly
oh wait looking further into my logs it looks like YouTUbe has actually actively detected "unusual activity" from my bot... which, y'know, makes one request per hour. Oy.