YouTube proxies

YouTube proxies for ad verification and video insights by country

Check where your videos play, which ads run before them and how channels perform in each market. Residential and mobile IPs show YouTube the way local viewers see it, country by country.

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The challenge

Why YouTube is hard to collect at scale.

01
Availability varies by country
Licensing and uploader settings can block a video in some countries and not in others. Rights holders and distributors need to confirm availability market by market, not only from headquarters.
02
Ads depend on the viewer
YouTube selects ads by location, language and device. Advertisers checking brand safety or competitor campaigns see one set of ads from their office and miss what runs elsewhere.
03
Heavy pages and rate limits
Watch pages are large and script-heavy, and repeated requests from one IP soon meet CAPTCHAs or throttling. Collecting metadata at volume needs rotation and lean, targeted requests.

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Targeting tips

Get the data local users see.

Add gl and hl to YouTube URLs, for example gl=DE and hl=de, so content region and language match the IP country.
Expect a cookie consent page on EU and UK IPs and handle it before you read the page.
Use -type-mobile in the US, UK or Austria to see mobile ad formats and delivery.
Hold a sticky session while you follow an ad from impression to landing page, so every request shares one IP.

Check where a video plays, country by country

# pip install requests
import json
import re

import requests

VIDEO_ID = "aqz-KE-bpKQ"  # replace with your own video ID
COUNTRIES = ["us", "ca", "br", "in", "jp"]  # EU and UK IPs may see a consent page first
PLAYER = re.compile(r"ytInitialPlayerResponse\s*=\s*(\{.+?\})\s*;\s*(?:var\s|</script>)", re.S)
HEADERS = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
                  "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0 Safari/537.36",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
}

for cc in COUNTRIES:
    proxy = f"http://USERNAME-country-{cc}:[email protected]:8000"
    try:
        r = requests.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch", params={"v": VIDEO_ID},
                         headers=HEADERS, proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=30)
        player = json.loads(PLAYER.search(r.text).group(1))
    except (requests.RequestException, AttributeError, json.JSONDecodeError) as exc:
        print(cc, "could not read player data:", type(exc).__name__)
        continue
    status = player.get("playabilityStatus", {})
    print(cc, status.get("status"), status.get("reason", ""))

Geo-targeting docs Ad verification use case

How can I check if a video is blocked in a country?

Load the watch page through an IP in that country and read the playability status in the embedded player data. OK means the video plays there. An error or unplayable status usually comes with a reason, such as the uploader not making the video available in that country.

Can I verify which ads run on YouTube in another market?

Yes. Ads are selected by location, language and device, so view videos through residential or mobile IPs in the target market with matching language settings. Use a real browser for this, because ads load through scripts, and keep timestamped screenshots for your reports.

Should I use the YouTube Data API instead?

Where it covers your needs, yes: the official API is the cleanest source for public channel and video metadata within its quotas. Proxies cover what the API does not show, such as the ads, recommendations and page layout that viewers in each country actually see.

Why do I get a consent page instead of the video?

YouTube shows a cookie consent page to visitors from the EU and UK before the content loads. Handle the prompt once in a browser session and keep the cookies with a sticky session, or check those markets with a browser-based flow instead of plain HTTP requests.

Is it allowed to collect YouTube data with proxies?

YouTube's terms prohibit accessing the service by automated means except for public search engines or with prior permission, and they point developers to the official API. Use the API where possible, keep proxy-based checks to verifying your own content and ads, collect only public data and follow our acceptable use policy.