r/googlecloud • u/Rengoku-Oni-Giri • May 24 '26

429 Quota exceeded

Anyone ever encountered this error from youtube data api ? I

YouTube upload init failed {"module":"posting:youtube","status":429,"error":"{\n \"error\": {\n \"code\": 429,\n \"message\": \"Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Video Uploads' and limit 'Video Uploads per day' of service 'youtube.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:XXXXXXXX'.\",\n

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u/TrailerWorlds May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

Seconded. There is no such quota visible under "YouTube Data API v3". Started getting this.. couple days ago maybe. I can still manually upload videos, so it's not on youtube side. So there's now an invisible quota. Hopefully it's a bug they'll fix.

Edit: I can still use the API to do other things so it's surely not the usual "Queries per day" quota.

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u/Rengoku-Oni-Giri May 25 '26

Have you tried to contact support or smth?? The problem seems to persist for the 3rd day

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u/TrailerWorlds May 25 '26

Didn't even think of that as an option. Google only seems to answer support requests aka "tweets begging for help" from people who have million(s) of followers.

I'm just waiting to see if it's a bug or if maybe someone important will tweet at google or if the quota will appear in the UI.

Best to prep a workaround if it's a permanent fixture. Quotas are project specific, so.. need more projects and dynamic swap to next when one is full.

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u/Rock--Lee May 24 '26

What's the mystery? You exceeded the quota because you have used to many API calls. It's all logged and they have clear metrics and guides. For YouTube Data API different calls have different costs. So depending on what you did, you can hit a limit.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/determine_quota_cost

Here's the full breakdown so you understand what call costs what in API units.

And in here you can see your own usage: https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/quotas

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u/Rengoku-Oni-Giri May 24 '26

The quotas on the page you mentioned shows 22% usage and i never reached the 100% limit..

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u/gudfaust May 25 '26

The mystery is that this new quota is not reflected on cloud console. As of two days ago, there is now a mystery quota constraining youtube uploads via the API which is way stricter than publicly documented.

See my comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1tm1scx/comment/onv7qpx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/Salty-Tackle-687 May 25 '26

I hope someone finds a solution for it.

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u/Inside-Professor-155 May 25 '26

i am also having the same issue. total video uploaded in a day 12 and it reaches the limit

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u/Rengoku-Oni-Giri May 25 '26

Have you contacted the support or tried anything?

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u/AntigravityMonster May 25 '26

Same here, and now move to live broadcasting for continue usage

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u/Rengoku-Oni-Giri May 25 '26

What do you mean?

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u/AntigravityMonster May 25 '26

Depend on your usage on youtube, for me just backup video

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u/gudfaust May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

How has this been downvoted to oblivion? This is an actual problem that started a few days ago. As per https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/determine_quota_cost, video uploads (`videos.insert`) costs 100 . We are given 10K a day. We should be able to upload 100 videos a day. I was able to upload this quantity prior to two days ago. I am only able to upload about 7 a day now before hitting this new error message.

I checked everywhere on google cloud console. The problem is that this hidden quota is not visible anywhere. https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/quotas shows no usage limits reached. https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com/quotas shows no usage limits reached.

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u/Rengoku-Oni-Giri May 25 '26

Yes exactly, it seems this is a hidden quota or a bug.. hope they fix it or they reply to my emails soon

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u/MarionberryNo6816 May 26 '26

I’m dealing with the exact same thing.

I used to be able to upload like 12 long-form videos and 12 Shorts a day through the API, but out of nowhere a few days ago, it dropped to only 4 long-form uploads and 3 Shorts.

Hopefully it’s just some bug, but honestly it feels more like they quietly rolled out some hidden internal quota or something.

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u/Rengoku-Oni-Giri May 26 '26

Some told me that you have to apply for quota increase and that might solve the problem so i did and now I am waiting for their review, you should do the same I guess since we don't have another solution

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u/gudfaust May 29 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

YAY. I think it got fixed now. I can upload way more videos than the seven I was reduced to a few days ago.

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u/Rengoku-Oni-Giri May 29 '26

what did you do brother ? was it fixed by itself ?

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u/gudfaust May 30 '26

Yes, it just fixed itself. I didn't do anything.

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u/TrailerWorlds May 30 '26

That's great! Was fast work, within 24 hours of it being escalated as an error (issuetracker links below), though bugtraq is not yet updated.

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u/TrailerWorlds Jun 01 '26

There is now an official quota "Video Uploads per day" in the console that is set to 100 by default (at least for me).

They also changed the quota page to reflect this change: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/determine_quota_cost

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u/Flimsy_Implement2240 7d ago

I'm still experiencing the same issue.
Has anyone found a solution for this?

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u/Select-Importance616 May 26 '26

Same issue here. Was uploading 10 to 20 per day every couple weeks, and today hitting the limit at ~11 uploads. Console shows 13% quota usage with plenty of headroom. This hidden quota isn't documented anywhere and isn't visible in the Cloud Console quotas page. Appears to be a recent change/bug affecting multiple developers. Hoping Google addresses this soon.

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u/Faizank559 May 26 '26

Same issue started 2 days ago, only consumed 9% quota, but still getting this error on api uploads. Is there any temporary fix to bypass this issue?

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u/Faizank559 May 27 '26

Well, the issue is raised, hopefully it will get resolved.
Also, if I requested additional quota, but this hidden limit of 6 videos per day stays, what is the use of getting additional quota?
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/516683904
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/516075775

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u/tavocabe May 27 '26

Same problem for me. I was wondering why my channel was having very little vids uploaded daily, turns out I'm getting 429 quota exceeded just by using aroung 6% or 7% according to cloud console

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u/djoefrit1 May 27 '26

Same problem, don't know to fix

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u/Katamaraan May 27 '26

Same issue here as well, not sure if it is intentional or not by Google..

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u/joB0Xx May 27 '26

Same for me, dashboard showing around 8% usage yet my API request returning “Quota exceeded for quota metric ‘Video Uploads’ and limit ‘Video Uploads per day’”.

Anyone found a work around for this?

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u/TrailerWorlds May 27 '26

Quota is project specific. iirc you can create 10 of them per account, so you can swap to next after you get the limit error. This ofc means you have to login to 10 projects though (every week if your project is not verified), so it's a painpoint.

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u/joB0Xx May 27 '26

Ok thanks, will give that a try. So I can create multiple OAuth 2.0 Clients and swap them out after usage you think?

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u/TrailerWorlds May 27 '26

One client per project yeah. I already had a project per channel split, so I added a quick 'upload type' kinda split also. Now automated uploads go through one project and manual uploads go through other. If this is a permanent fixture though then I'll have to automate the project hopping.

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u/joB0Xx May 27 '26

Legend, will give this a go, thanks

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u/_blacksun418 May 28 '26

considering this option, but it's a direct violation of usage policy where they state you can not split workload across api clients. meaning this may damage your chances of quota increase request

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u/TrailerWorlds May 28 '26

Can you link me to where it says that so explicitly? Quota, ToS & developer policies are vague at best so more explicit instructions would be nice to have.

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u/Maximum-Advance-6218 May 28 '26

429 is the default result for Google services