YouTube API quota exceeded errors on widgets
Widgets show a YouTube API quota exceeded error even on low-traffic sites, with no clear way to fix it.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 11 October 2020 · last reported 13 March 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners using this WordPress plugin to show YouTube feeds on their sites report that widgets suddenly display a quota exceeded error from the YouTube data service.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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