I have some long lists of YouTube video IDs and would like to create playlists with them programmatically. I'm looking at the YouTube API v3, but the impression I get there is that I have to do this one by one, and each request costs 50 units, with a daily quota of 10,000 - which would mean I could add at most 200 items assuming I did nothing else with the API. This seems strange, and I wonder if I am reading this wrong. Does anyone know if its possible to provide multiple IDs in a single request, and how to do that?
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Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer.– Community BotMay 21 at 15:18
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Welcome to Web Applications. Please see How to Ask a Good Question. In particular, "Have you thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question?" I suggest starting with a Google search PlaylistItems:insert multiple single request Some resources: Quota Extension Form; Quota Calculator; Reference: PlaylistItems:insert– Blind SpotsMay 21 at 15:41
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Each video added will incur a call at the appropriate quota cost. You can code a loop to add multiple videos, but will still incur the incremental cost of call.– Blind SpotsMay 21 at 15:44
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Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. Seems a pretty inefficient API. I think I saw something somewhere where you could specify multiple video IDs in an URL and add them to a playlist that way, rather than use the API; need to find that again as it seems it may be a better option.– Graham WheelerMay 22 at 17:52
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