diff --git a/src/General/Settings/Advanced.html b/src/General/Settings/Advanced.html
index da511a032..46837c8e5 100644
--- a/src/General/Settings/Advanced.html
+++ b/src/General/Settings/Advanced.html
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@
   </div>
 </fieldset>
 
+<fieldset>
+  <legend>Youtube API Key</legend>
+  <div>API key used to fetch Youtube link titles. You can obtain your own key <a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/google/youtube.googleapis.com" target="_blank">here</a> to make the feature work when the default key exceeds its quota.</div>
+  <div><input name="youtubeAPIKey" class="field" spellcheck="false"></div>
+</fieldset>
+
 <fieldset>
   <legend>Custom Board Navigation</legend>
   <div><textarea hidden name="boardnav" class="field" spellcheck="false"></textarea></div>
diff --git a/src/Linkification/Embedding.coffee b/src/Linkification/Embedding.coffee
index 45a238f67..86b13b209 100644
--- a/src/Linkification/Embedding.coffee
+++ b/src/Linkification/Embedding.coffee
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ Embedding =
         ignore403: true
         api: (uids) ->
           ids = encodeURIComponent uids.join(',')
-          key = '<%= meta.youtubeAPIKey %>'
+          key = Conf['youtubeAPIKey']
           "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=#{ids}&fields=items%28id%2Csnippet%28title%29%29&key=#{key}"
         text: (data, uid) ->
           for item in data.items when item.id is uid
diff --git a/src/config/Config.coffee b/src/config/Config.coffee
index be6689661..f88e69cd0 100644
--- a/src/config/Config.coffee
+++ b/src/config/Config.coffee
@@ -1185,3 +1185,5 @@ Config =
   passMessageClosed: false
 
   'Prerequest Captcha': false
+
+  youtubeAPIKey: '<%= meta.youtubeAPIKey %>'