Google decreased youtube api v3 limits for queries per day to 10 000 per day for all accounts and projects

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That's not a yet another question on how to increase quota limits. Today Google decreased YouTube Data API v3 quota limits for queries per day from 50 million in my case to 0! Somebody had 1 million queries, 100 000 queries per day, but now everybody have only 10 000 units. It is extremely low, all serious production apps will be suspended soon. That conditions are unacceptable.

This was happened without any notification! No message in cloud console or in mailbox!

That means that we all need to close our projects completely. Thousands of developers involved with youtube api projects, we wrote lots of code to make all things working, spent a lot of time and power.

And there is no way to solve that problem because Google doesn't give any support with the youtube api. I tried to contact youtube api team with all channels, filled out brand new quota application form ~3 months ago - still no answer or positive changes.

In the official documentation and google cloud console pages written that stackoverflow is the only place where we can get help, because google staff are monitoring tags associated with google services. Maybe this topic aggregate more feedbacks than my previous one Issue tracker

So I want to ask other developers, what are you going to do with your projects, is 10 000 queries per day enough?

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I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because its not programming related. SO cant help you with google support issues we recommend you contact Google support. Sorry even if google says you can get support here we are not google support. – DaImTo
I would suggest one of two things though: One its a bug and google will fix it shortly. Two this is only you and they are blocking your project for making to many requests. On that note none of my projects appear to be turn down. My quota is still 50,000,000 – DaImTo
@DaImTo I just created a new youtube data v3 app in developer console and its also showing me 10,000 Quota per day limit. – Rusty
@Rusty, this is ridiculous, for example, if we want to display a fresh list of videos from our youtube channel, we need to list playlistItems (from uploads playlist), this costs 3 units (URL: googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet). If we have >3000 hits per day, we must cache results or store it in the database and refresh from time to time. So, now we can add a stripped down youtube functionality for some apps, or ask users to generate their own api keys as some TV apps do. – Artem Shevtsov
@Praveena, you can wait for an answer from youtube team (up to three months) or you can start using some unofficial ways of youtube data fetching for your app (download-yt, invidious can be found on github). In my case youtube team decided to reset quota to 0 and blocked my project because the app is not compatible with youtube terms of service =). – Artem Shevtsov

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Over the years google has been changing how Quota is applied to new projects. Orignally (ca 2012) when you created a new project you were always given a quota size of 10000. This quota was assumed to be a development quota, enough to get your application underdevelopment. So if we consider this question

So I want to ask other developers, what are you going to do with your projects, is 10 000 queries per day enough?

The fact is from googles side this was never meant to be your production quota, they always expected you to request more if you needed it. Some apps dont though I have made serval which just do some monitoring and can use the 10000 quota happily with no issues.

As for your original issue with your quota being reset. I have seen this a number of times over the years. People will create new projects and have a quota of 0 from the start. In that case i always recommend recreating the project. In the case where you had a large quota and it was reset to a lower value. This IMO is either a bug on googles side or they spotted an issue with your requests and they want to force you to apply again. Rude really they could just email you and ask. There is really no way of knowing the cause because as you said Google does not offer any support contact for YouTube API besides Issue tracker