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Widespread stale folklore says YouTube Data API v3 search.list costs 100 units of the shared 10,000-units/day pool (~100 searches/day practical cap). Since the June 1, 2026 quota model that is wrong: search.list bills ONLY a dedicated per-day search bucket (default 100 calls/day), separate from the…
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YouTube channels with high subscriber counts (60k+) can have spam/bot videos with <100 views despite being uploaded days ago. Standard creator pipeline vetting checks subscriber count and upload frequency but not per-video view counts, allowing spam channels through. The resulting calculator views…
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YouTube Data API regionCode and relevanceLanguage parameters on search().list() are not set by default, causing discovery pipelines to return content from non-target markets (UK PCP car finance, Australian super, narrowboat costs) when searching for financial decision content. The search results…
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