youtube data api intermittently throw access forbidden

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I need to upload considerable amount of videos on YouTube, so I have a c# application, upload one file each 5 minutes. The problems is, it intermittently throw "access forbidden". For example it worked for around 4 hours this morning, then it became moody again :D. Any same experience recently with YouTube API?

It's the error I receive sometimes, but not always, after successful authentication, when it tries to upload:

Google.Apis.Requests.RequestError
Access forbidden. The request may not be properly authorized. [403]
Errors [
    Message[Access forbidden. The request may not be properly authorized.] Location[ - ] Reason[forbidden] Domain[youtube.common]
]

Cheers

youtube-data-api
I've seen this for the last two days. I sent a support request but haven't heard anything back. I thought it would be odd if I were alone in this. It's been working without issue for months until two days ago. – Ken Sharp
I am seeing this too, as are people in the discussions linked below - it would seem YouTube have put in place some kind of anti-spam limitations, but no-one seems to know what they are productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/tSPtIZcpn5I productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/CHkD9CETtKk productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/9rOFZN_xYzk – Joe
Yo Joe, just by monitoring my app, seems since this morning (AU Time), it fixed to only allow one upload each 15 minutes. It's at least a progress, shows they are working on it :) – Dina
Hi Sep - you seem to be able to upload 50 videos, then get throttled to 1 every 15 minutes. I'm still to work out when this throttle gets reset. – Joe
Someone pointed this out to me today - issuetracker.google.com/issues/35919708 – pcooley