[YouTube-API] Verifying 300000+ YouTube videos

Hello,

I'm an engineer at Zimbio.com, an online entertainment magazine. One
of our features allows users to post YouTube videos under content
categories. Over time, many of these videos have become invalid,
either because the YT user deleted the video, or the YT user was
deleted, or the video violated some copyright. We want to improve the
user experience so that all the videos play instead of just showing
YouTube / Invalid.

I'm writing a script to verify the good videos and throw out the bad
ones. Here's the request I'm using:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/' + YT.code + '?alt=json

If I delay 5 seconds between each request, I still hit the rate
limit. Even if each request was successful, at this rate it will take
over two weeks to cull the bad videos from the database. Ideally this
is a process we would run every 1-4 months. I can't find any good
contact point to request an increase of my quota. What can I do?

Thanks,

Louis

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