My client is looking to activate YouTube Data API and is wondering if there are any fees associated with enabling this. Can you please let me know?
YouTube Data API v3 doesn't require to activate billing on your Google account and so no fees are associated with enabling this by default. According to YouTube Data API Overview#quota
Projects that enable the YouTube Data API have a default quota allocation of 10,000 units per day
Note: If you reach the quota limit, you can request additional quota by completing the Quota extension request form for YouTube API Services.
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YouTube Data API v3
Quota: Queries per day
Current limit: 10,000
How can I increase the quota of my API?
The screenshot says it all: You are already using the maximum allowed daily API calls allowed by your subscription plan. If you still need more than that, you need to pay for an upgrade of your subscription.
If you have reached the max quota you can request additional quota. by submitting the YouTube API Services - Audit and Quota Extension Form
You can read all about this in the YouTube Data API - Quota and Compliance Audits documentation page.
Just make sure to click extension request at the top.
Intro to YouTube API and cost based quota.
I'm building an Android app which embeds YouTube videos. I'm confused on how the billing works for the YouTube Data API v3. Is it dependent on whether the APIs are called from GCP server or AWS server?
The YouTube Data API, is a free API Google does not charge you for accessing this API. You are free to use it. Therefore no billing account is needed in order to access this API.
You do have a quota which limits the number of request that you can make to the API over a period of time.
Useful links
Quota cost calculator
YouTube API and cost based quota demystified
I need a higher daily quota for the Google API / YouTube API.
So I want to sign up for the free trial, but I can't seem to find any costs for that in the Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/pricing/list
Am I missing a major part here?
I had the same question and I didn't find a price list. When you enable a Youtube Data API in your google console you can go to section quotas for this API and set quota to value from 1 to 1 million. If you need more, you should do a manual request to Google through filling a special form, accessible by a link.
Here you can find the Quota Usage for Youtube API
Youtube Quota Usage
If you reach the quota limit, you can request additional quota on the Quotas tab in the Developer's Console.
You can calculate the quota here
Not sure based on the docs whether the method loadVideoById(videoId) incurs any quota cost.
Would this equal a one quota cost or not?
Also, in this post:
How to Play a Playlist using YouTube JavaScript API
The first answer by jbx, does this answer require any quota (playing a playlist, no searching).
You probably would not affect your quota, if you are just using Youtube IFrame API. This would only add up to your quota if you will be using Youtube Data API (to get such as videos, playlists, and channels), Youtube Analytics and Youtube Reporting.
These APIs will be needing API Key or OAuth 2.0 client IDs to function (Credentials, access, security, and identity).
A related SO question also said, that "there is no API key needed and no quota limit specified in any documents or developer console."
Hope this helps!
I would like to extract youtube channel analytics. Is it possible to extract information like subscriber count over a period of time, number of views over a period of time, region based subscription and so on?
From the documentation:
All YouTube Analytics and YouTube Reporting API requests must be
authorized by the channel or content owner that owns the requested
data.
And the only authentication method mentioned in the docs are the OAuth 2.0 protocol for authorizing access to private user data.