YouTube Data API v3 API

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Official YouTube API for channels, videos, comments and search (quota-based). Buying direct: Free within quota. Listed Sep 29, 2026.

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From: n/a
Calls, 30 days: 0
Ranked first: 0 of 0

Overview

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Social

YouTube Data API v3 returns channels, videos, playlists, comments and search results with an API key or OAuth 2.0. Projects get a default quota of 10,000 units per day plus 100 search.list calls per day.

Company

Legal name: Not confirmed
Headquarters: Not confirmed
Founded: Not confirmed
Employees: Not confirmed
Ownership: Not confirmed
Kind: Platform
Website: Not confirmed

API

Verified

Access: Self-serve API
Style: REST
Auth: API key (query), OAuth 2.0
Base URL: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3
Features: Bulk —Async —Webhooks —MCP —Sandbox —
Rate limit: Default 10,000 units/day; 100 search.list calls/day
Docs: Reference

Pricing

Unverified

Model: free
List prices: Not published
Free tier: Default quota 10,000 units per day
Checked: Sep 29, 2026

Compliance

SOC 2: Not confirmed
GDPR: Not confirmed
CCPA: Not confirmed
DPA: Not confirmed
Resale / storage: Unknown until a written agreement says otherwise

Relationships

Integrations: Not confirmed
Alternatives: None named by the vendor

Sources (2)

YouTube Data API overviewchecked Sep 29, 2026
YouTube search.listchecked Sep 29, 2026

Placement in the Grid

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Placement in the GridRouter Grid by category
Category	Placement	Execute	Coverage	Calls	Report
Social	Not yet rated	–	–	0	View Grid

API

The vendor's OpenAPI document as stored in the catalog, its operations, and the rate limits it publishes.

Reconstructed · low confidenceOpenAPI 3.1.0 · 1 operations · checked Sep 29, 2026 Spec (YAML)

Rebuilt from the vendor's public docs, only what the pages show. Each operation links the page it came from; response shapes the docs don't spell out are left empty rather than guessed.

Operations in the youtube-data-api spec
Method	Path	Summary	Params	Source
GET	/search	search.list	0	Docs

Rate limits

Published rate limits for youtube-data-api
Limit	Scope	Plan	Endpoint	Burst / concurrency
10,000 / day	account	All	All	— / —
100 / day	endpoint	All	search.list	— / —

GridRouter never paces above these and backs off on 429, honoring Retry-After. Source, checked Sep 29, 2026

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