Youtube Data API v3, Receiving 403 after creating multiple streams

Question

I am using the Youtube Data API to create live broadcasts programatically. Within the hour, I am able to create around 5-6 streams at which point I will begin to receive 403 insufficientLivePermissions error. If I wait another 30 minutes and try again, it allows me to make 2 more broadcasts but will then return 403s again.

I checked to see if my access token was expired, but it works when making listing requests. It almost seems to be that I am getting rate limited. When I check my Youtube account however, all indicators are in green so I don't believe I am abusing their API.

This is the response from the YouTube Data v3 API:

{
  "error": {
    "errors": [
      {
        "domain": "youtube.liveBroadcast",
        "reason": "insufficientLivePermissions",
        "message": "Request is not authorized",
        "extendedHelp": "https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/docs/liveBroadcasts/insert#auth_required"
      }
    ],
    "code": 403,
    "message": "Request is not authorized"
  }
}

I am also not hitting anywhere near the Quota limits for the API. Any ideas to why the 403 insufficientLivePermissions would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

This issue means that you actually created too many live streams : if you go to https://www.youtube.com/my_live_events?action_create_live_event=1 and try to create a new livestream you will see :

You are creating too many live streams. Please wait a while before creating further streams.

I think the maximum is set to 6 to 7 streams per 24 hours.

ps : It's really not related to the issue in the documentation (missing scopes)