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I have found many suggestions and answers to the issue of receiving the error message from the youtube api i.e [access not configured etc.] with the most prominent suggestions being: to delete the project, create a new project, enable the api and then create the key.

I did this a few times and it worked in general but after a while I am forced to do the same thing. Also I stop the process so as to not reach the quota limit but it seems like the API still restricts regardless of the actual quota.

For example, the key I am using has a quota of 10000 per day, from the api dashboard I see that I have reached that quota with 9816 units. My question is, if I have only made 283 requests to the api, how am I reaching 9816 units? Also has anyone found a consistent approach to using the API without reaching these limits and without have to regenerate a key.

I am just trying to understand the restrictions with this api.

{ "error": {  "errors": [   {    "domain": "youtube.quota",    "reason": 
    "quotaExceeded"

and access not configured:

{
"error": {
  "errors": [
  {
"domain": "usageLimits",
"reason": "accessNotConfigured",
"message": "Access Not Configured. YouTube Data API has not been used in 
 project 509865627602 before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting
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Please note the fact that each API endpoint has attached a quota cost. Some endpoints are cheap, while others are expensive. Depending on usage patterns, the default quotas may put rather tight limits on the number of calls an user is allowed to make on various endpoints of the API.

For example querying the Search endpoint's list method for the snippet part has a quota cost of 100 units, while these applied on the PlaylistItems endpoint have a quota cost of only 3 units.

As a result (quoting my answer to a related question), when one is interested for a given channel's uploaded videos playlist, he/she better use the latter endpoint (queried appropriatedly) instead of the former one.

To help you further, please elaborate about your API usage patterns.

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