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youtube.com · Storage · 1 record · JSON

YouTube (unlisted) — with DCT/fountain-coded payload Storage

caveatinstitutionno cardphoneRper-ip-shaping

www.youtube.com · media · storage/youtube-with-dct-fountain-coded-payload · JSON · compare

Free tierNo total storage cap. Per-upload max 256 GB or 12 hours, whichever is less. Unverified accounts are limited to 15-minute videos; phone verification lifts that.
unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Pricenone stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
EgressFree and unmetered — playback and yt-dlp retrieval are served from Google's CDN at no cost; there is no egress meter on the account.
Identityinstitution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: fied) from 'higher daily limit' (phone-verified). The Data API v3 path is capped near 6 uploads/day (~1600 quota units each against a 10,000/day budget). 12-hour duration ceiling mea
Limits
  • request-rate 6 uploads/day source
  • request-rate 1600 quota units each against a 10,000/day source
  • per-ip-shaping 47 Mbps source
A daily upload-count cap exists but Google does not publish the number; its own tier page only distinguishes 'limited daily limit' (unverified) from 'higher daily limit' (phone-verified). The Data API v3 path is capped near 6 uploads/day (~1600 quota units each against a 10,000/day budget). 12-hour duration ceiling means a 256 GB file must average 47 Mbps to be reachable.
Bindingper-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams
Interfacerest rest
Toolingyt-dlp (youtube extractor, verified present in yt-dlp --list-extractors; 1752 extractors total). Binary-in-video: freddiev4/yts3 (FFV1/DCT + fountain codes, 2 stars, pushed 2026-02), KKarmugil/Infinite_Storage_Glitch (188 stars, Python ISG port), karaketir16/file2video (70 stars).
Composes withUnlimited files per channel x unlimited free Google accounts. Each upload is independently 256 GB-capped, so capacity = N accounts x M videos x 256 GB. Upload throughput, not quota, is the binding constraint.
ReliabilityFrom a datacenter IP, yt-dlp hit Sign in to confirm you're not a bot on 2 of 3 probe videos and HTTP 429 on the watch page — retrieval reliably needs cookies or a residential egress. Data does not vanish, but the account can be terminated and the whole channel with it.
NotesNo total storage cap. Per-upload max 256 GB or 12 hours, whichever is less. Unverified accounts are limited to 15-minute videos; phone verification lifts that.
Evidence rungreported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Evidence (4)
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21support.google.com/youtube/answer/71673'The maximum file size you can upload is 256 GB or 12 hours, whichever is less'; 15-minute default for unverified accounts
2026-10-21support.google.com/youtube/answer/57407'There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day'; no number given
2026-10-21www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ`probe: `yt-dlp -F -> 720p/1080p/1440p/2160p renditions only (av01, vp9, avc1), no original stream
2026-10-21github.com/freddiev4/yts3'converts any file into an FFV1/MKV lossless video ... embedding data into 8x8 DCT blocks', fountain codes 'for surviving re-encoding'
Unknown or withheld values (5)
  • $.free_tier.notes process
  • $.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
  • $.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
  • $.retention.notes not-extracted
  • $.retention.stated not-extracted