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For the last 48h I'm getting 403 error when trying to get rss feeds using https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=... with the message:

We're sorry... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

I'm running small crawler on my hosting for checking newest videos on few channels. It's been working OK for more than 2 years, until last Sunday. I've talked about this issue with my hosting provider, but they haven't changed anything in network configuration etc.

What can I do about this? How long I have to wait to be able to use rss api again? Is there any limit of queries I can send to youtube per day? Is it possible to add my hosting server's ip to whitelist or something?

I totally don't understand this - it's rss api and it is meant for use by other programs to send automated queries...

karolkpl
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I try it myself and it is working for me. I suggest you to check it again if it is now working or use the channel_id instead of user.

So your request should look like this:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=YOUR_CHANNEL_ID&key=YOUR_API_KEY

For your question How long I have to wait to be able to use rss api again? Is there any limit of queries I can send to youtube per day?

Remember that the YouTube DATA API has a courtesy limit/quota of

Queries per day                     1,000,000   
Queries per 100 seconds per user    300,000 
Queries per 100 seconds             3,000,000

These quotas are reset at midnight Pacific Time (PT).

For more information, check this related SO question.

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KENdi
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I am facing the same issue.

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=YOUR_CHANNEL_ID&key=YOUR_API_KEY

Using this url with my API key in my browser works but I still end up with a 403 on my server.

I'm doing other call on https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos with the same API key, and these work fine.

I'm using Tiny RSS. It look like Feedly is also having troubles.

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Looks like it is working fine for me again for the last 4 days.