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SoLow Productions
SoLow Productions

Reputation: 79

Accessing Public data via the YouTube data API without Authentication.

I want to make requests to the Youtube Data API, but I do not need to access any user information. I just want to browse through the public videos and display videos based on search terms.

Am I able to do this without authorization?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 10140

Answers (1)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 117146

A lot of the methods in the YouTube API access public data. As you stated public data is data not owned by a user. To access public data you do not need to be authenticated but you must still register your application with Google.

You need to go to Google Developer console create a project make sure to enable the YouTube Data API and request an API Key.

GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&maxResults=25&q=surfing&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

You can then just add key={YOUR_API_KEY} to any of the public methods.

You can test it here make sure to click the link Execute without OAuth and not the blue button.

Upvotes: 5

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