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youtubeyoutube-api
zigbi1818
zigbi1818

Reputation: 11

Search My Own Videos on youtube

I want to allow the visitors of my website to search videos of my youtube account by typing keywords. So far I've been using the "key" parameter to authenticate my other requests and it worked just fine, but for this specific one I am getting a 400 code when setting the myOwnparameter to true.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list#request

If I understand what is said in the documentation by properly authenticated, I'd need to get into the hassle of setting up a OAuth flow just to do that. Beside the inconvenience, this doesn't even seem to address my use case since I don't want the user of my website to be authenticated with his account but with my account : I want the myOwn parameter to point to my account.

How can can I achieve what I am after, with a client-side only solution and - ideally - without OAuth ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 91

Answers (2)

zigbi1818
zigbi1818

Reputation: 11

The solution seems to be to use the channelId parameter and set it to my account.

Upvotes: 0

membersheep
membersheep

Reputation: 504

If you want the solution to be client-side only (e.g. a javascript front-end) your authentication credentials should be disclosed to every client and this could be dangerous because anyone could take control of your youtube account.

Upvotes: 1

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