YouTube API Services Terms of Service

Note: The new Complying with the YouTube Developer Policies guide provides guidance and examples to help you ensure that your API clients adhere to specific portions of the YouTube API Services Terms and Policies (API TOS). This guidance offers insight into how YouTube enforces certain aspects of the API TOS but does not replace any existing documents.

The following YouTube API Services Terms of Service is a legal document you must follow when accessing or using the YouTube API Services. Please read it often, and make sure you understand it. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for the revision history to be notified of any such changes to the YouTube API Services Terms of Service. When reviewing the following YouTube API Services Terms of Service below, and accessing and using YouTube API Services, please keep the following in mind:

Respecting and fostering the growth of the YouTube community of creators, viewers, content rights holders and advertisers is very important to us. We provide the YouTube API Services to enable developers to create experiences that bring additional value to the YouTube ecosystem and its users. If your implementation is in breach of the YouTube API Services Terms of Service or has a negative impact on the YouTube community, we may impose limitations and prohibitions on your access to, and use of, the YouTube API Services.

Thank you,
—The YouTube API Services Team

YouTube API Services Terms of Service

Thank you for your interest in the YouTube API Services. The YouTube API Services (as defined below) are provided to you by YouTube LLC located at 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno CA 94066 (referred to as "YouTube", "we", "us", or "our"). This YouTube API Services Terms of Service ("Terms of Service") is a legal document you must comply with at all times when accessing or using the YouTube API Services. The "YouTube API Services" means (i) the YouTube API services (e.g., YouTube Data API service and YouTube Reporting API service) made available by YouTube including those YouTube API services made available on the YouTube Developer Site (as defined below), (ii) documentation, information, materials, sample code and software (including any human-readable programming instructions) relating to YouTube API services that are made available on the YouTube Developer Site or by YouTube, (iii) data, content (including audiovisual content) and information provided to API Clients (as defined below) through the YouTube API services (the "API Data"), and (iv) the credentials assigned to you and your API Client(s) by YouTube or Google. By accessing and using the YouTube API Services, and in return for receiving the benefits of the YouTube API Services provided to you by YouTube, you agree to be bound by the Agreement (as defined below).