Is YouTube Data API down?
YouTube Data API is up
Right now
No. YouTube Data API Data API v3 answers UpButler's independent probe; no machine-readable official status.
No official machine-readable status
For agents
proceed
Proceed.
GET upbutler.com/status/youtube/status.agent.json
MCP: upstream_status {"service":"youtube"}
YouTube Data and Analytics APIs. Google publishes no status feed for them; UpButler probes the API.
What YouTube Data API says
YouTube Data API publishes no status page; only the independent probe is shown.
Their site: developers.google.comWhat UpButler measured
Data API v3 is answeringHTTP 403 · 27 ms
One request without credentials to youtube.googleapis.com every two minutes, from eu-central (one location, not a global view). An answer (the expected "not authenticated") shows the edge, TLS and routing work. It does not prove that authenticated calls succeed.
Checked · up since 2026-10-10 06:09 UTC
YouTube Data API incidents, last 90 days
Without a machine-readable source there is no incident history to show. YouTube Data API keeps its own at developers.google.com.
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[](https://upbutler.com/status/youtube)Tell your outage from YouTube Data API's
Declare that your project depends on YouTube Data API. When one of your monitors fails while YouTube Data API has an incident that began around the same time, UpButler tags your incident "likely upstream" with their incident linked, says so in the alert and the AI report, and tells your on-call agent not to change code.
npx upbutler init finds the dependency from your env var names and packages. The catalog, dependencies and upstream-aware incidents are on every plan, including Free.
# upbutler.yaml
dependencies:
- youtubecurl -s https://upbutler.com/status/youtube/status.agent.json{
"schema": "upbutler.upstream-status/v1",
"service": "youtube",
"verdict": "proceed",
"status": "operational",
"reason": "YouTube Data API Data API v3 answers UpButler's independent probe; no machine-readable official status",
"retryAfterSec": null,
"incident": null,
"probe": {
"state": "up",
"statusCode": 403
}
}Questions
- Is YouTube Data API down right now?
- No. As of 2026-10-10 07:18 UTC, YouTube Data API is up. This page reads the status again every 2 minutes.
- Where does this status come from?
- YouTube Data API publishes no status page; only the independent probe is shown.
- What does UpButler's own YouTube Data API check prove?
- Every two minutes UpButler sends one request without credentials to the YouTube Data API Data API v3 (youtube.googleapis.com) from eu-central. Any answer from the edge, usually HTTP 403, shows that DNS, TLS and routing work from there. It does not prove that authenticated requests succeed, and it is one location, not a global view. It is most useful when it fails before their status page changes; the page then says so.
- How can my agent or app check YouTube Data API status?
- Fetch https://upbutler.com/status/youtube/status.agent.json: a small JSON document with a verdict (proceed, retry, fallback or pause) and retryAfterSec. No key is needed. The same answer is an MCP tool, upstream_status {"service":"youtube"}, on https://upbutler.com/mcp/public.
- How do I know whether an outage is mine or YouTube Data API's?
- Add "youtube" to the dependencies of your UpButler workspace. When one of your monitors fails while YouTube Data API has an incident that began around the same time, your incident is tagged "likely upstream" with their incident linked, and your on-call agent is told not to change code.
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UpButler is not affiliated with YouTube Data API. Status and incident text belong to YouTube Data API and are read from their public status source; the probe result is UpButler's own measurement.