Is youtube data api totally free

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PHA picture PHA · Mar 17, 2016 · Viewed 19.9k times · Source

I am going to implement a python client that search videos on youtube with different queries. Apparently I should use youtube data api for this. Even though I read quata cost I just want to be sure that using youtube api is totally free of charge. Sorry it is too basic.

Answer

matthewayne picture matthewayne · Mar 17, 2016

Yes, using the YouTube API does not incur any monetary cost for the entity calling the API. If you go over your quota an 403 Error will be returned by the API.

Links:
YouTube API Quota Details
YouTube Quota Calculator

Google already provides a Python client for all of its APIs, including YouTube, which handles authentication, forming and making the API request as well as some datatype translation (i.e. JSON to dictionary, etc.). (link)

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