I simply have a couple queries about the YouTube Data API which for some reason I just can not find any answers to. Even if the answer was explained clearly in the documentation, I hope to keep this StackOverflow question up so it can possibly help other people who, like me, also missed it in the documentation.
To help understand my two questions, here's an image that states the quotas for the YouTube Data API:
My first question: How is it possible that the limit for
queries per minuteis 1.6m and thequeries per daylimit is 10k?Surely
queries per minutecan never go above 10,000? I mean, I guess if you send 10k queries in 30 seconds from 23:59:30 and then do another 10k before 00:00:30... but that's still only 20k out of the 1.6m limit provided).How do I make use of
queries per minute per user?All the API calls I make go directly to
queries per dayandqueries per minute.My usual "method" of an API call is to first request scopes and then call the API with the received access token, as instructed by Google's documentation.
If you could help me with this, that'd be much appreciated.
