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jfadich
jfadich

Reputation: 6348

Youtube API returning Insufficient Permission when requesting comments

I'm trying to retrieve comment threads for a users video but I'm getting a 403 Insufficient Permission error.

My oAuth client in the developers console has the Youtube Data v3 API enabled and I set the youtube scope when the token is generated.

Here is the client I use to authorize the app in the oauth flow. I've tried both the youtube scope and the youtube.readonly scope and neither expose commenThreads.

$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setClientId($auth_config['client_id']);
$client->setClientSecret($auth_config['client_secret']);
$client->setRedirectUri($auth_config['redirect_uri']));
$client->addScope(Google_Service_YouTube::YOUTUBE);
$client->setAccessType('offline');

Elsewhere in my app I use the token like below.

$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setAccessToken($access_token);
$youtube = new Google_Service_YouTube($client);
$comments = $youtube->commentThreads->listCommentThreads('snippet', [ 'videoId' => $videoId]);

I can view the users videos and as far as I can tell I should have permission to view comments too. What am I missing? My code is almost identical to the PHP client library example.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1404

Answers (2)

D V Yogesh
D V Yogesh

Reputation: 3700

For JavaScript developers 

var OAUTH2_SCOPES = [
  'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube',
  'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl'
];

to retrieve comments from the YouTube API add https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl this into OAUTH2_SCOPES array

Upvotes: 1

jfadich
jfadich

Reputation: 6348

I found the solution. Using the force-ssl scope fixed it.

$client->addScope(Google_Service_YouTube::YOUTUBE_FORCE_SSL);

Not sure why the ssl scope works when the plain youtube scope doesn't, especially for just listing comments.

Upvotes: 2

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