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Artem Shevtsov
Artem Shevtsov

Reputation: 516

Google decreased youtube api v3 limits for queries per day to 10 000 per day for all accounts and projects

That's not a yet another question on how to increase quota limits. Today Google decreased YouTube Data API v3 quota limits for queries per day from 50 million in my case to 0! Somebody had 1 million queries, 100 000 queries per day, but now everybody have only 10 000 units. It is extremely low, all serious production apps will be suspended soon. That conditions are unacceptable.

This was happened without any notification! No message in cloud console or in mailbox!

That means that we all need to close our projects completely. Thousands of developers involved with youtube api projects, we wrote lots of code to make all things working, spent a lot of time and power.

And there is no way to solve that problem because Google doesn't give any support with the youtube api. I tried to contact youtube api team with all channels, filled out brand new quota application form ~3 months ago - still no answer or positive changes.

In the official documentation and google cloud console pages written that stackoverflow is the only place where we can get help, because google staff are monitoring tags associated with google services. Maybe this topic aggregate more feedbacks than my previous one Issue tracker

So I want to ask other developers, what are you going to do with your projects, is 10 000 queries per day enough?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 7772

Answers (1)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 117166

Over the years google has been changing how Quota is applied to new projects. Orignally (ca 2012) when you created a new project you were always given a quota size of 10000. This quota was assumed to be a development quota, enough to get your application underdevelopment. So if we consider this question

So I want to ask other developers, what are you going to do with your projects, is 10 000 queries per day enough?

The fact is from googles side this was never meant to be your production quota, they always expected you to request more if you needed it. Some apps dont though I have made serval which just do some monitoring and can use the 10000 quota happily with no issues.

As for your original issue with your quota being reset. I have seen this a number of times over the years. People will create new projects and have a quota of 0 from the start. In that case i always recommend recreating the project. In the case where you had a large quota and it was reset to a lower value. This IMO is either a bug on googles side or they spotted an issue with your requests and they want to force you to apply again. Rude really they could just email you and ask. There is really no way of knowing the cause because as you said Google does not offer any support contact for YouTube API besides Issue tracker

update

See this issue #211012781

Hi. If you're seeing Queries per day quota set to 0 and the API is indeed enabled, then this means that your project’s access to YouTube Data API Service has been disabled.

You should’ve received a notice via email regarding this action, which also contains the steps that need to be taken to regain the project’s access. But just in case you missed it, please fill out and submit the exceptions form below:

https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/yt_api_form?hl=en

Upvotes: -1

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