google cloud platform – Please explain the YouTube Data API’s Quota / Limits

My first question: How is it possible that the limit for queries per minute is 1.6m and the queries per day limit is 10k?

Surely queries per minute can never go above 10,000? I mean, I guess if you send 10k queries in 30 seconds from 23:59:30 and then do another 10k before 00:00:30… but that’s still only 20k out of the 1.6m limit provided).

About ten years ago the default development quota was around 1 million quota points. They had to reduce it to 10k to prevent spam.

Queries per day can be extended the other quotas can not. I guess it just made sence to leave them as they were.

How do I make use of queries per minute per user?

All the API calls I make go directly to queries per day and queries per minute.

My usual “method” of an API call is to first request scopes and then call the API with the received access token, as instructed by Google’s documentation.

Queries per day is a project based quota all the users on your system use that. So if you have ten users they are using the “queries per minute per user” and they all lump up to use the Queries per day.

Remember the 10k is just a development quota you can apply for an extension when every you like.

I have a video on this as well Intro to YouTube API and Cost-Based Quota: Everything You Need to Know