YouTube Data API - "Serving Limit Exceeded"

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Over the past 24 hours we had a large number of TubePress users report an error message from YouTube:

Serving Limit Exceeded

Most of our users have their own Google API Key, and our cloud-hosted TubePress installation isn't anywhere close to hitting the daily quota. I can't find any documentation on this particular error message, nor can I understand why it would suddenly present itself on so many sites with different keys.

Could anyone explain what's going on?

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possible duplicate of Google Tasks API: 403 Forbidden, Serving Limit Exceeded – DaImTo
docs are here developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/core_errors – Alexander Vasenin
Thanks for the link! Unfortunately for this particular error it's just way too vague: The overall rate limit specified for the API has already been reached. – 3hough
same here stackoverflow.com/q/32470396/2432781 – Alexander Vasenin
I've just filed a bug report with YouTube. Please "star" that issue to draw attention to it and track updates, if you'd like. – 3hough

2 Answers

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Even the reason of failure is about quota, it has nothing to do with the quota because the default limit is largely enough. The problem is the new Youtube anti-spam algorithm deployed at the end of last month. Unfortunately it impacts negatively on the normal users.

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This is probably because your "Per-user limit" is set too low. You can up it by going to Google Developer console -> APIs -> Enabled APIs -> <the API that's causing you trouble> -> Quotas and set "Per user limit" higher.