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To clarify - the current API has a limit of 10,000 "query points" per day for new API keys (most endpoints cost 1-5 points per query). It used to be 1 million; they've since throttled everyone down and started forcing audits. 10k is still something, but it certainly doesn't allow large scale research.

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It used to be 50 million, it used to be 500000% more. I would have expected it to increase as bandwidth got cheaper yet it for whatever reason has decreased.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15568405/youtube-api-lim...

Wow. That makes me sad and suspicious. Why would they close themselves to this degree? From 50 million to 10,000!

Wow, I had no idea. 1m was enough to work with, but... wow. Thanks for the reference.

It is really sad to see one of the biggest Internet platforms and the biggest video platform apply more restrictions. If they opened their data more and made less restrictions, we would be in front of a gold mine of data.

With current restrictions, maybe multiple accounts + VPN are essential for large-scale research.

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