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Youtube API Key

How to generate your Youtube API Key

A YouTube API Key acts as a unique identifier, allowing third-party applications to access public data from YouTube—such as videos, channels and playlists—on behalf of a developer. This key authorizes requests to YouTube’s API without needing user authentication, as long as only public data is accessed.

You have to use your Youtube API Key wether you're integrating videos from your own channel, or any other public video. Along with the API Key, you also need a Channel ID or a Playlist ID.

Follow this step-by-step guide to generate a Yotube API Key

1

Before you begin

What you'll need

  • A Google account

What you'll do

  • Head over to the Google Console
  • Create a Project
  • Create Credentials
  • Retrieve your API Key
2

Head over to Google Cloud

  1. Go to console.cloud.google.com/apis
  2. Click on "Enable APIs & services"
  1. Then look for “YouTube Data API V3”. You can either search it from the search box or simply scroll down.
  1. Up next, click on the “YouTube Data API V3” API and click the “Enable” button.
  1. Click on "Credentials" in the side panel.
3

Create a Project

  1. Click "Create Project" from the dashboard
  1. You'll obtain this view:
4

Create Credentials

  1. Click on "Create Credentials"
  2. Click on API Key
5

Retrieve your API Key

  1. Click on the Copy icon at the right of the field to copy your API Key
6

Test your API Key in the App

  1. Open the Finsweet Component app and go to Youtube Feed Component.
  2. Paste the API Key in the API Key field, press Enter, and wait for the preview on the right to update. For the preview to update, you also must have provided a Channel ID or a Playlist ID.

Done! That's it!

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