Too many recent calls error from YouTube API - youtube

There is an issue with you tube API quota where within a couple of requests i am receiving the error >yt:quotatoo_many_recent_calls . I did read other posts made on this issue but didn`t find a solution.
The site has a cron job set up to once a week. I have inserted the developer key and the site is only in testing mode and i believe the site has not made excesive calls to you tube videos.
Not sure what to do as the video section of the site is basically useless. Would appreciate if someone would help.
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How to delete spam comments on my youtube videos and block spammy channels from commenting on my videos?

Using YouTube API V3 I have successfully identified the spam comments on my channel. The problem is using the delete API costs 50 credits which is alot given daily 10K credits only.
YouTube studio provides no way of deleting comments by ID and if I go to Settings -> Community -> Hidden users and add the spammy users to the list according to YouTube it will take a lot of days for the past comments to get removed. What to do, please help?
The 10k quota is for development use only YouTube expects you to request a quota extension if you need more quota then that. Fill out the form and request more.
YouTube API Services - Audit and Quota Extension Form
Should take a couple of weeks to get approved.
I would try out https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge. It is a tool that lets you filter and search for spammer comments on your channel and other's channel(s) in many different ways AND delete/report them all at once.
The tool has a full wiki to help you with using it.
Here is the creators video showing it off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vOakOgYLUI
Here is an LTT video showing how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM

Is it possible to use the YouTube API to automatically create a comment when a new YouTube video is uploaded?

I am working on a personal program to use with my Google account. I don't have a custom website or domain to use. Basically, the idea of my request was to create a personal bot that would comment "First" on a video as a joke between my friends. I looked into the YouTube API a bit, but I got differing answers on the capabilities of the v3 data API. I found the commentThread page but am also confused about its usage. If anyone could give me a basic idea on if this project is possible, I would love to hear it.
welcome to Stack Overflow!
As you said, you want to create a comment when a video uploaded. YouTube has provide the webhooks for this.
You can see the docs push_notifications. I think that is what you want. :)

Youtube Data API v3: Sort by date not working

The sorting is not working as expected since a few hours.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?order=date&part=snippet&channelId=UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw&key=YOUR_API_KEY
Can be tried in the API explorer (Execute without OAuth) as well.
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.search.list?part=snippet&channelId=UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw&order=date
date: Resources are sorted in reverse chronological order based on the date they were created.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list
What is going wrong?
In case you are looking to get the latest videos of a channel:
Get the channels upload playlist from Channels
Get the latest videos in the channels upload playlist from PlaylistItems
Alternatively, you can use the channels RSS feed:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={ChannelId}
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user={User}
This does not replace the full search sorted by date function however.
Thanks YouTube for making me work on a Sunday, all I wanted was to watch the latest videos from my favorite channels. At least I don't have to wait for a fix anymore, good luck to those less lucky!
Reports in Google's forum were commented by a Google employee:
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/2494861?msgid=2520468
YouTube is aware the search/sorting functions aren't working as expected – this is temporary and part of our efforts to better respond, review and remove graphic, violative content from YouTube. Thanks for your patience while we work through this. Will update this thread when these features are working normally again, feel free to subscribe for updates.
Bug reports for this include:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/128673031
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/128673552
Both have an official comment from Google:
Thank you all for bringing this up here. These specific filters have been currently disabled on both YouTube.com and through the APIs. We should have updates on this soon. Thanks again.
Not sure how credible that is:
Just confirming that this is only temporary, and related to YouTube's efforts to better respond, review and remove graphic, violative content from YouTube. Thanks for your patience while we work through this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/b1plj5/sort_by_upload_date_not_working/eiojtjh/

Likes report on third-party YouTube videos

I'm creating a website for users to post their videos on a particular topic. The videos will be processed with an intermediate server and then uploaded to each user's YouTube channel. However, I would like to know if the YouTube API, lets you know the number of likes you get each of these videos on YouTube.
Thank you for helping me
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list
This is where to look. Please invest some effort of your own before asking on SO. Your question is easily solvable by using a search engine.
If you don't yet know how the YouTube API works, inform yourself first. Once you do know and were able to try something out, but are stuck, I encourage you to ask another question with your particular problem (after researching, of course).

What is a good strategy for staying up-to-date with external API's?

My project is reliant on several API's, like Twitter and Youtube for example. Recently, Youtube deprecated their old API, and it caused issues with my team's iPad app.
We could have stayed ahead of the change if we were paying attention to Youtube's announcements of the upcoming deprecation. But alas, we were not and the idea of staying up to date with all of our dependencies manually(browsing the web) seems exhausting and inefficient.
I have found the following tool to help notify when changes occur with external library dependencies, https://libraries.io. However, this does not help with API dependencies.
Besides checking the API source webpages every so often, I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on how to stay notified and up-to-date with news regarding updates to a specified list of external API's?
After some time looking at different options, I have found a solution that is not perfect, but seems to work best at fitting this need.
Solution Description
This solution uses a combination of Twitter, Google Scripts, and website blogtrottr.com. I am creating a twitter list of reliable dev handles that often post updates on new API. For example I made a list that contained #twitterapi and #YouTubeDev. Used Google Scripts to create an online feed out of the twitter list. Then used blogtrottr to email me every time that feed gets a new posting.
Steps to Implement
Create a twitter list of reliable handles that often post about updates to their API
Create an RSS Feed from that Twitter list. The details for how to do this can be found here.
Plug that url that you get from Google Script into blogtrotter.
I did find some other ways to do this, but so far this is the only solution that was 100% free!

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