You Tube recently expired my API key, so I proceeded to create a new one according to your instructions at https://tubepress.com/docs/youtube-api-setup/, however no matter how I restrict or don’t restrict it, I keep getting the following error message in my page: YouTube responded with an error: Requests from referer are blocked.
¿What does this mean?
Here are the steps we suggest:
- Log in to the Google Developer’s Console
- Click the “Credentials” tab on the left navigation bar
- Under “API keys”, select the key you’re currently using with TubePress
- Under “Application restrictions”, ensure that “None” is selected
- Clear the system cache
Give that a try and let us know how it works for you?
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Tried this and it does not work unfortunately
I found out that “YouTube” has a quota system, and once you hit 300 ‘hits’, the API is ‘locked’ It might be “per call” to Youtube API, or it might be per thumbnail returned. Not sure if a daily quota limit or not, (I suspect not) I had a utility (TraceBlaster by BlasterSuite) that was supposed to find the keywords from videos, and that had “knocked out” my API with too many requests.
I suspect that’s why TubePress use a cache so that it “pulls” the data once, and any request to view video (thumbnails / meta tags) in future is reloaded from there.