503 Backend Errors using YouTube v3 API

[B Stewart]

Hi,

The website I've been working on is using the YouTube v3 API to allow users to upload videos to their account, browse etc. The problem I'm having is that since this morning, I'm getting exceptions (Google_ServiceException) using the PHP API with  '(503) Backend Error' returned from Google. This only happens for some requests. I can reload the page in question and it will work fine the on the next reload, I get the 503. This is happening calling the following API methods:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlists/list

Other methods may be affected - these are just the ones I can test quickly. All of this code was working fine up until this morning. Is anyone else experiencing similar problems with these 503s?

-bstewart

[Jayendra Parab]

Hi

I am also facing a similar problem when I try to upload a video. The code was working earlier but now am getting "503-Backend Error" as response to the upload request. Also, when I login in YouTube to see if the video is uploaded or not then the video is shown in video manager, but it is shown as "Processing..."

-jayendra.

[Jeffrey Posnick]

Hello,

 Regarding B Stewart's original post, I believe he was running into https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4020 which has since been fixed.

 Regarding Jayendra's post, I'm not sure what's going on in this case. What would be most helpful to debug this is if you could share the PHP code you're using to perform the upload so that we could try to reproduce the problem.

Cheers,

-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team

[Jayendra Parab]

Hi Jeff,

I went through the issue you mentioned and I updated my google-api-php-client code to get the fix for that issue. After that I am not facing that problem. If I face the problem again, then I will send you my code.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Jayendra.