Subscriptions: insert
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Adds a subscription for the authenticated user's channel.
Quota impact:
A call to this method has a
quota cost
of 50 units.
Common use cases
Request
HTTP request
POST https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/subscriptions
Authorization
This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes (
read more about authentication and authorization
).
Scope
|
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner
|
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube
|
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl
|
Parameters
The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.
Parameters
|
Required parameters
|
part
|
string
The
part
parameter serves two purposes in this operation. It identifies the properties that the write operation will set as well as the properties that the API response will include.
The following list contains the
part
names that you can include in the parameter value:
contentDetails
id
snippet
subscriberSnippet
|
Request body
Provide a
subscription resource
in the request body.
For that resource:
Errors
The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the
error message
documentation for more detail.
Error type
|
Error detail
|
Description
|
badRequest (400)
|
subscriptionDuplicate
|
The subscription that you are trying to create already exists.
|
badRequest (400)
|
subscriptionForbidden
|
You have reached your maximum number of subscriptions.
|
badRequest (400)
|
subscriptionForbidden
|
Subscribing to your own channel is not supported.
|
badRequest (400)
|
subscriptionForbidden
|
Too many recent subscriptions. Please try again in a few hours.
|
forbidden (403)
|
subscriptionForbidden
|
The request is not properly authenticated or not supported for this channel.
|
notFound (404)
|
publisherNotFound
|
The resource specified by the request's
snippet.resourceId
property cannot be found.
|
notFound (404)
|
subscriberNotFound
|
The subscriber identified with the request cannot be found.
|
required (400)
|
publisherRequired
|
The subscription resource specified in the request must use the
snippet.resourceId
property to identify the channel that is being subscribed to.
|
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