PR, reputation and narrative · Social and review sources
YouTube Data API
Licence or access: proprietary API with free quota
- status interface
- proprietary API with free quota
- appropriate use
- search/channel/video/comment metadata
- limits and stop rules
- search uses high quota; daily pool and endpoint costs apply; no general transcript scrape; caption download usually owner-authorized
- official source
- Getting started · Costs
Official sources
- Getting started https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started
- Costs https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/determine_quota_cost
Catalogued at the 2026-09-01 research baseline. Verify the licence, free-tier limits, API schema and source terms again before deployment, and record a version-pinned registry entry for whatever you select.