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?
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@DalmTo is correct. Here's just additional working samples that you can run on your localhost immediately: The working demo youtube project doing that. The accompanying youtube tutorial is here.ReyAnthonyRenacia– ReyAnthonyRenacia2017-05-31 09:58:58 +00:00Commented May 31, 2017 at 9:58
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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.
answered May 31, 2017 at 9:54
Linda Lawton - DaImTo
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