Why do we have limitations on its usage?
According to Google, the limitations are in place in order to ensure the API is used in a fair way and to maintain the quality of the service.
What are the limitations?
- By default, the usage quota allocated for each project on Google Developer Console or Google Cloud is 10,000 units per day, where each project is considered as an individual application.
- If an application needs more units per day, a separate request should be submitted to Google mentioned how the API is being used by the application and the additional quota that it needs, which will be reviewed and approved.
We need to understand one important thing here
- One unit is not equivalent to one request
- And the number of units varies with the type of request. Check the below URL for more details.
Quota Cost details: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/determine_quota_cost
Overall
Though we have a usage limitation in the form of a usage quota, we have an option to increase the quota through an additional request to increase it. So, no worries.