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techLOW2026-05-07 09:12 UTC

What I learned squeezing the YouTube Data API v3 quota for a side project

TLDR: The default 10,000 unit/day quota will burn through in ~10 naive user requests. Three tricks pulled my per-user cost down 50× and let me ship TubeVocab on the free tier. When I started building TubeVocab — an ESL learning tool that turns any YouTube video into a clickable, vocab-learning inter

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