Look up exact per-endpoint YouTube Data API v3 quota costs before planning a bulk operation
domain: developers.google.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Consult the live quota-cost table at developers.google.com/youtube/v3/determine_quota_cost rather than cached blog figures, since costs have changed over time.
Budget 100 units for videos.insert.
Budget 1 unit for videos.list and 100 units for search.list — search is charged per page when paginating.
Budget 50 units for playlistItems.insert.
Budget 400 units for captions.insert.
Track cumulative usage against the default 10,000 units/day project allocation, which resets at midnight Pacific Time.
Known gotchas
search.list is disproportionately expensive at 100 units per call, and each additional page of paginated search results is re-charged the full 100 units.
captions.insert (400 units) is far pricier than most other insert/update calls (typically 50 units) — easy to underestimate when planning captioning workflows.
Some third-party writeups still cite older, higher quota costs for endpoints like videos.insert — always check the live official table rather than older cached numbers, since Google has revised these costs before.
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