YouTube Data API key

Recent public video-title mentions for breakout-band coins (free quota: 10,000 units per day; SerpApi overflow when tight).

Essential Required before the dashboard opens. Free vendor plans supported.

Settings field: YOUTUBE_API_KEY · Expected format: AIza...

Paste the key in Settings → BYOK, click Save keys, and wait for Connected (or Saved for keys that are not probed from the browser).

Used for

Recent public video-title mentions for breakout-band coins (free quota: 10,000 units per day; SerpApi overflow when tight).

Pricing

YouTube Data API v3 is free within your Google Cloud project quota. Default projects get 10,000 quota units per day at no charge.

  • Default quota: $0/day (10,000 units/day (typical new project))
  • Quota extension: Free audit or paid billing (Request higher quota in Google Cloud Console)

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

A search.list call costs 100 units. Kvantrank only reads public video search metadata.

Sign up

https://console.cloud.google.com

How to get the key

  1. Create an API key under APIs & Services → Credentials.
  2. Restrict the key to YouTube Data API v3 if you want tighter security.
  3. Paste the key into Settings → BYOK and save.

Notes

Kvantrank only reads public video search metadata, not private YouTube account data.

Third-party API terms, quotas, and pricing change over time; confirm current limits on each provider's site before production use.