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🛈 YouTube API: How to generate your Youtube API key

ImprovedTube edited this page Dec 21, 2021 · 6 revisions
  1. https://console.developers.google.com/apis/dashboard
    Click on 'accept/ continue'
  2. https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library/youtube.googleapis.com
    Click on 'enable' (middle, centered)
    Then this page reloads slowly. (Got to wait)
  3. Click 'select a project' (in the top) > 'my first project'
  4. Click 'activate' (again)
  5. Click 'credentials' (left)
  6. Click 'create credentials > API-Key' to copy your key ('AIza_____________________________________')

⚠️ Currently (only) needed for 2 ImprovedTube features: Video's Age, Channel's Sum of Videos
Hopefully YouTube will give us unlimited quota for these simple features in future
May always be required when we will have API Search features, that take a lot of Quota.