Soo... I'm using Google's Youtube Data v3 API to create a tracker for new uploads.

And docs and devs' intended way of doing so is not by calling an channel.uploads() or uploads.list({channelID}), instead we get the "Uploads" playlist, call an api to read that playlist, and hope the channel won't hide their Uploads playlist for any reason.

Btw, on free tier you get 10k quota credits per day (max 10k)

Search api costs mf'ing 100 + filterCosts,

Checking an existence of a channel costs 1 + snippetCost

Getting their uploads playlist is another 1 + playlistCost

(While yes, it's possible to get channel details and playlists for 1 + snippetCost + playlistCost , I don't want to waste extra creds for a typo in the confirmation message.)

im using the rss feed of youtube.

I have used the ”legit” YT data API in the past for text data, but after getting hit with ugly fees, I put together a scraper for mining any number of comments for free. It has been working for me for two years with no updates to the code (thank god). Last time I tested its limits - it scraped all UnboxTherapy’s channel with no issues lol.