Just to walk through this again to make sure you have done it properly.

  1. Make sure you have a Google account.
  2. Log into the developer console at: https://console.developers.google.com/
  3. Create a project
  4. THEN, select YouTube data API
  5. Click create credentials on the right hand side of the screen.
  6. Choose where you will call the API from
  7. Pick public or User.
  8. Obtain your API Key.

Optional: restrict your key.

I just walked though all of this and have been given a key myself.

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URL: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=7lCDEYXw3mM&key=YOUR_API_KEY &part=snippet,statistics Description: This example modifies the part parameter value so that the contentDetails and status properties are not included in the response.
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With the YouTube Data API, you can add a variety of YouTube features to your application.
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[question] How am I supposed to make a Youtube API key?
You go here https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com/credentials then afterwards you click on create credentials then go to API Key then you can copy your api key, email it to yourself and then insert it into the TubeFixer settings More on reddit.com
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What is possible with the Youtube API?

You can get public stats from any Youtube channel with the Youtube V3 API. You will need to apply for a API key. Getting Started

Then you can get the info with an API call such as:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&id=[a channel ID goes here]&key=[your API key goes here]

A channel id is in the last part of the url for a channel ex: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w So the channel ID is UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w

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