OT Question on audio downloads from youtube

[Shevek]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 at 13:28, Budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:

> ... and this worked OK until YouTube stopped me.  I must have exceeded some limit but it was good while it lasted!
>

try running youtube-dl with the --rm-cache-dir option then trying your
download again

alternatively, is this the issue?
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#http-error-429-too-many-requests-or-402-payment-required

As an aside, for YouTube videos you don't have to use the whole URL
(e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx) for the video, only the
xxxxxxxx