We are working with YouTube Data APIs for more than 5 years now and we have an enterprise offering which is been used from 90% of all Media and Entertainment organizations in the US. That includes YouTube Originals btw.
For the past 2 weeks our API Keys are blocked and returning 403 errors:
"domain": "usageLimits",
"reason": "accessNotConfigured",
"message": "Access Not Configured. YouTube Data API has not been used..."
We successfully go over an App Review last July at which point we also got a Quota increase. For the past 2 weeks, I am submitting forms to increase the quota (since it is set to Zero with no apparent reason) and emailing support and basically zero response from YouTube. At this point, our business is at risk since we cannot fulfill data requests by Customers and there is no communication from YouTube.
We even provided them with App Access and logins (since as I mentioned above YouTube besides a data provider is also a customer) and we do see humans from YouTube login our app and playing around but no meaningful response yet.
We also created new keys but with a limit of 10000 calls a day its impossible to collect all necessary data mainly because our customers have videos with 10s of thousands of comments.
Any suggestions or anybody from YouTube monitoring this?
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I am working for a news channel which uploads 50 videos per day. I have integrated youtube api on the website for the same purpose. There seems to be a quota limit of 6 videos per day. Is there any way I can purchase or get more quota limit? What is the process and charges for increasing the quota limit.
The only way of obtaining a quota extension for your application is that of addressing Google directly.
There's this form that you'll have to fill in. Than wait for response -- which, according to the experience of users of this forum, doesn't arrive shortly.
I haven't worked with uploading videos but you should be able to ask for additional quotas for google apis on the IAM & ADMIN console view under Quotas (there should be a link from the developer dashboard under Quotas. Once there just select the quota you would like to change and submit a request.
Having said that, I have no experience with this process, so I don't know what is the involved in approving such a requests nor what kind of costs be involved.
I'm using the YouTube Data API v3 to insert videos from my website to my youtube channel. It is all working fine. Youtube gives 10000 queries per day limit and I requested to extend the quota as one video upload takes about 1607 queries and hence my limit for uploading videos is 6.
The response I received from YouTube is that my API Client is in violation of Youtube's policy fo storing data. They have mentioned that
store_youtube_api_length: twelve months
and they want it to be set to under 30 days.
I have searched the google console for this setting but I'm unable to find it. I have asked Youtube and they have brushed off the request saying they are part of YT compliance team.
Can somebody here help me find it.
Responding to the YouTube API Services confirming our data retention policy was under the month limit fixed this for us. It was just an internal policy agreement, no setting to update.
We got the request from google to submit YouTube API Audit form and we have submitted with all information but it seems our Console project with YouTube Data API still not activated properly because of status display "Active" but the daily quota is blank.
When I am going to update daily quota with any number but it seems set with blank on page refresh and we are not able to make any single request successful.
We are working with this console project and YouTube API for the last 5 years without any issue but in the last few months we are getting so many issues like first, we have verified OAuth screen with requested scopes and it has taken 20-25 days in the verification process and published. Now, facing another issue about limit quota and audit form.
Right now we are getting below error as attached in screenshot while going to authenticate my google account with the permission of Manage YouTube data API.
There is no contact support provided and I have submitted form 3 times but no back reply from support so waiting since 1 month to get work as normal.
Let me know if anyone has idea!
Error:
Error calling GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails&mine=true:
(403) Access Not Configured. YouTube Data API has not been used in project xxxxxxx before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting
https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com/overview?project=xxxxxxx then retry.
If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry.
Access Not Configured. Quota limit issue
This means that you do not have any quota to use the API. You need to apply for an additional quota within the Google developer console. It took me about three months to get a quota on my project.
This is not the same as going through the verification process all though it is similar. Unfortunately, you must have missed an email you were probably notified a while ago that Google was locking down the quotas and you should apply before losing the quota on your existing project.
There is no support other than going though the form and simply waiting until google choices to grant you some quota or they tell you they wont. This is the price of developing with a free api google gets chose how they want to allow us to access things.
For years we have used the YouTube search API to provide a simple YouTube fallback for smart-tvs with no native YouTube app available. The Queries Per Day for our registered app has been set to "unlimited" trough all this time AFAIK, and we only use the youtube.search-list API.
Suddenly, three weeks back, access to the search function was no longer working. Turns out the quota for daily queries was set to blank(no number, no nothing). When trying to change it we get "enter a number in the range 0 to ."
First of all we linked the app to a billing account to be able to adjust the quota. But it was still not working. Then we contacted YouTube and filled out a big form to increase the quota. We got reply from YouTube that the quota request was granted. But we are still not able to set/change the quota. I've tried replying to to quota mail, but I guess the mail is not monitored.
We see others have had similar issues, and the solution seems to have been to contact YouTube. But we have not found any way to contact them regarding YouTube data API support queries except here on stackoverflow(we do not have a paid support plan). So we're posting here hoping that anyone from YouTube can respond - or to get tips from users that have been in the same situation.
UPDATE:
We have now tried two things:
* Removing and adding back in YouTube data API v3 in the registered app. Did not help
* Activating YouTube data API v3 on another app we have registered - this gave us a daily quota of 10000(but we would definatly prefer not to have to change to another API key)
UPDATE 2:
Info we left out that might be relevant. We recently went trough a process with Google filling out the "YouTube API Services Form"(a google docs form). We went back and forth with the google team, replacing logos, adding ToS links, changing UI etc. until we got a:
"Thanks for your response to the Audit Form. We will conduct our audit based on the information you provided. We will notify you if additional information is needed or when we completed our review. Thank you for your cooperation."
After this we have heard nothing.
Today we can see that the quota is back to 10000... We did send a second request for quota raise and I also sent a mail to the Audit Form team. Not sure which one did the trick - have received no response. And that's probably the most annoying thing about this - the complete lack of feedback.
I experienced the same issue before in one of my projects and I can tell that your access to Youtube data api has been disabled.
TLDR;
I noticed this first because I got the error below when calling Youtube data API.
{ "error": { "errors": [ { "domain": "usageLimits", "reason": "accessNotConfigured", "message": "Access Not Configured. YouTube Data API has not been used in project <my_project_id> before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com/overview?project=<my_project_id> then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry.", "extendedHelp": "https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com/overview?project=<my_project_id>" } ]
So I went to the console and checked if the API is enabled (And it was). Then I checked the quota, which I suspect is the issue because I got a blank value in the queries per day. I could still edit the value, but those values didn't take effect. It eventually transitioned to 0 and after that, I can no longer edit it (This is after some editing and refresh).
When I looked at my email, it shows that they sent me an email with the following subject and content.
Subject: [FYI] YouTube disabled your inactive project’s access to YouTube Data API Service
Dear YouTube API Developer,
According to our records, your project has been inactive for the past 90 consecutive days. In accordance with the YouTube API Services Developer Policies (link), we disabled your project’s access to and use of the YouTube Data API Service.
This will not affect other Google API Services that you may have enabled on this project.
For reference, your inactive project number is my_project_number
If you desire to access and use YouTube Data API Service, or believe you were disabled in error, you may complete and submit this form to get in touch with us.
Thanks,
YouTube API Services team
The form was included in the email, but since you haven't received one, here's what you need to do as stated here.
If 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
The alternative, outright solution is to create a new project where you will get the default 10,000 quota.
My client has an application that allows users to upload videos to youtube from a mobile application. They are first uploaded to the client's server, and then that server uploads them to youtube via the Youtube Data API V3 package from google. As traffic has picked up, the application has periods where the upload process returns a 400 error, and the uploads to YouTube fail. This usually lasts an hour and a half or so, and then the uploads begin working again.
I have already checked the Quota limits in the Developer Console area. We are not exceeding the daily quota. I also noticed the client was not using the QuotaUser field (or the deprecated UserIP field), so the next outage I ran a test to see if setting that would alleviate the stoppage, it did not. I also tried uploading from a different IP, in case the client's server IP was just being blocked temporarily, and that did not work either.
Is there a maximum number of videos upload limit in a given time period, or some other limiting factor BESIDES the quota limits?
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "youtube.video",
"reason": "uploadLimitExceeded",
"message": "The user has exceeded the number of videos they may upload."
}
],
"code": 400,
"message": "The user has exceeded the number of videos they may upload."
}
}
Evidently they limit the number of videos you can upload a day. Averaging historical data, it appears to be ~100 a day. Must be broken into smaller chunks, as the service comes back after much less than 24 hours.