Title: API Error on initial page load
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# API Error on initial page load

 *  [wdstephen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdstephen/)
 * (@wdstephen)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-error-on-initial-page-load/)
 * Get this error message on initial page load:
    Sorry, there was a YouTube API 
   error: Proxy CONNECT aborted due to timeout
 * After I refresh it goes away. When I refresh a couple more times it comes back.
 * Please could someone explain the error and how to resolve.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-embed-plus/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-embed-plus/)

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 *  Plugin Author [embedplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/embedplus/)
 * (@embedplus)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-error-on-initial-page-load/#post-7352063)
 * Hello,
 * That message means you have an underlying network issue or server issue with 
   your host (i.e. your server can’t connect to Google’s YouTube API for some reason).
   If your server cannot connect to the API, unfortunately there’s not much a plugin
   can do about that. Perhaps your host company could look into why your site has
   intermittent timeout issues when trying to connect to the YouTube API.

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