YouTube API Quota quick overflow

Question

I\'m trying to create a simple YouTube API request and quickly get 403 response code (Quota limit). According to YouTube API docs, the

Answer 1

According to the docs' quota calculator, the cost of one invocation of Search endpoint is not 3-5 units, but 100 units. (This fact is also mentioned on Search endpoint's doc page itself.) This explains that upon 100 calls to that endpoint your daily quota of 10000 units gets exhausted.