Does using the YouTube Data Api generate any cost?

Asked 1/12, 2014 at 9:15 Answered 22/1, 2021 at 4:36

youtube google-api youtube-api youtube-data-api

I was wondering if the use of the YouTube Data API generate any costs (money which must be payed to Google).

I was only able to find the "unit-system" which is used by YouTube to limit the amount of requests?

Kassiekassity answered 1/12, 2014 at 9:15 Comment(2)

Costs in what? money? data usage? – Clareclarence 1/12, 2014 at 9:16

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is not a programming question or any allowed question as defined in the Help Center. – Harrold 26/11, 2018 at 2:56

In addition to the answer by DaImTo I can add that if you don't need all of the YouTube API functionality (e.g. you only need to get video titles and thumbnails or something like that) then you don't need to be worried about the API restrictions at all, and you don't even need to use an API key.

I add this because a lot of people only need to get some basic data and get confused by all of the crazy API limits restrictions that keep changing all the time to make things worse, when you can get the same data without using the YouTube API directly.

You can get oEmbed data from YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Or you can access it via Noembed:

https://noembed.com/embed?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

which (unlike YouTube) also supports JSONP:

https://noembed.com/embed?callback=example&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

so that you can use it on the client-side with no need for server-side proxies.

See also those answers for more info:

Phototelegraphy answered 31/8, 2015 at 13:2 Comment(3)

Any way to get YouTube subscriber count using the ChannelID? – Gambetta 15/3, 2019 at 11:44

to oembed you need to have the id references, which you get when you use API video searches, this is usual hence the API need. – Pawpaw 15/8, 2019 at 16:38

Can I get the video publish time with the video URL? – Maye 9/2, 2020 at 6:31

The YouTube Data API uses a quota to ensure that developers use the service as intended and do not create applications that unfairly reduce service quality or limit access for others. All API requests, including invalid requests, incur at least a one-point quota cost.

The cost they are referring to is the cost against your quota.

1,000,000 read operations that each retrieve two resource parts.
50,000 write operations and 450,000 additional read operations that each retrieve two resource parts.
2000 video uploads, 7000 write operations, and 200,000 read operations that each retrieve three resource parts.

There are a limited number of requests you are allowed to make against the API each day. This is free for you to use it does not cost you any money to use this. Some of the Google APIs may allow you to extend this quota but will charge you for the extension but this depends upon the API.

Info from the Youtube API Quota documentation

Errata answered 1/12, 2014 at 9:58 Comment(11)

Could you please give me the link to the price of extension quota? I searched on Google but there is no luck. Cannot find how much I must to pay for the extension. – Basutoland 12/9, 2016 at 1:21

Are you sure you have to pay? – Errata 12/9, 2016 at 5:6

I didn't find any document about this. I just want to know about the extension quota clearly. – Basutoland 12/9, 2016 at 5:10

Just try to extend it. If it requires payment it will ask you to approve it first. I seriously don't think you need to though – Errata 12/9, 2016 at 5:36

What is cost to extend the quota? – Pimple 23/5, 2017 at 7:16

@Pimple to my knowledge there is no monetary fee to extend the YouTube Data API quota. – Errata 23/5, 2017 at 7:17

@DalmTo I want to develop personal app using YouTube api, does they allow it?I try to extend quota, they ask for your company information, and lot of similary questions. – Pimple 25/5, 2017 at 10:29

@DalmTo besides asking for company information, they also want you to set up a payment method before you're able to make the extension request - can't assure that that means that you need to pay. But something to keep in mind. – Walleye 3/1, 2019 at 16:34

If there is a monetary cost they will tell you and it would be documented. They can't charge you for something without first giving you an idea of cost. I have never heard of YouTube API costing anything to use. – Errata 3/1, 2019 at 17:12

What about my app is downloaded 100,000 times and used by say, 100,000 people. Will the restrictions be the same? 1,000,000 reads quota will be giving 10 reads or whatever to each user then? – Recuperator 23/9, 2019 at 20:43

Its a project based quota so you should probably consider requesting an extension – Errata 24/9, 2019 at 6:6

They reason why here is YouTube quota:

The YouTube Data API uses a quota to ensure that developers use the service as intended and do not create applications that unfairly reduce service quality or limit access for others.

Quota usage

YouTube Data API have a default quota allocation of 10,000 units per day.
You can see your quota usage on the Quotas page in the API Console.
If you need to extend quota limit you can request it here.
You can find the quota available to your application in the API Console.
YouTube Data API (v3) - Quota Calculator

Dempsey answered 22/1, 2021 at 4:36 Comment(0)

Quota usage

Recommended topics

Hot tags