I'm researching YouTube for backing a video system of ours. We have many clients and if clients were to use the system they would likely want their own accounts. Observing the YouTube API it does not appear I can manipulate user information. Is it possible to programmatically create users for YouTube via another Google API or the Youtube API itself?
No, clients will have to create accounts manually. Programmatic account creation would be ripe for abuse.
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I'm trying yo create a private application that manages a YouTube account all time, not different ones for clients, only one and the client has access to create a video streaming or other functions with YouTube API v3. Only I found how to the clients logging and manage their accounts but not only one channel all time.
How i can do that?
YouTube lifetime token for a server
What you are refering to is something called service accounts. Its designed for server to server interaction. This type of autohrization is not supported by the YouTube API you need to use Oauth2.
I'm trying yo create a private application that manages a YouTube account all time, not different ones for clients, only one and the client has access to create a video streaming or other functions with YouTube API v3.
You may have some issues here. You will need to create a project on Google developer console for your application and create Oauth2 credetinals.
In order to upload videos that are public your app will need to be verified. Application verification takes time with youtube api. Make sure to apply for it early.
Only I found how to the clients logging and manage their accounts but not only one channel all time.
YouTube authorization is channel based. Your users will need to be authorized for each one of their channels. There is no way to authorize a single user to access all of their channels in one go. It has to be per channel.
I've read YouTube's Terms of Service several times and have Googled this question tirelessly with no concrete answer. This is not a legal question about my specific YouTube API client, I just want to know if any YouTube developer has used the API in this way. I'm working on a side project for myself that's essentially an Instagram-YouTube mashup. I am a YouTube developer with an API key. Can my API client store a videos title, description and id in my database when my users like a video on my client? I don't know how else I can keep track of my users liked videos within my client.
Since you already specified that this is in fact not a legal question, the short answer is: Yes, you can (meaning it is possible).
There is one more possibility coming to mind, though:
You could authenticate users via OAuth 2.0 using the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube scope. That way, you can manage their liked videos and add/remove videos to this list when a user clicks the according buttons on your website (you can also check if any given video is already liked by the user). In this case, all the track-keeping is done by YouTube itself. This ultimately means that whenever a user likes a video in your app, they also like it on the YouTube website. This may or may not be desired, it is for you to decide that.
I need to post videos to specific YouTube channels via the V3 api managed by a single account.
I am trying to use the onBehalfOfContentOwner & onBehalfOfContentOwnerChannel fields to upload the video but I'm somewhat confused about the account requirements in order to enable this.
My understanding is that it is only possible to do this with channels that are managed by a Partner Account. I have set up my account as a partner account and the next thing the documentation talks about is using a CMS account. To give permissions to manage channels. The documentation seems to suggest that a CMS account is generated automatically once you become a partner account, but I can see no sign of this.
The documentation then goes on to talk about having to have a Partner Content ID in order to get a Full CMS account. This appears to be something that you have to apply for.
Is it really necessary that the account and channels have to be set up in this way or is there an easier way to manage this?
I want to make a web application and I want to use YouTube API to allow my users make live broadcasts.
Is it necessary that my users log with their Google/YouTube accounts to use the live stream or is it possible to make them use this function without bothering them with this detail?
In order to create the Live Event and Live Stream objects required for a livestream on YouTube, the user making those requests must be authenticated.
From the Docs:
Your application must have authorization credentials to be able to use the YouTube Live Streaming API.
Obtaining authorization credentials guide here.
Adding a live event is similar to uploading a video. The user making the upload must be authenticated in order for the video to appear on their channel.
I have Java based website. I would like users to log into my website and then upload videos to youtube using my youtube account. Users should not be required to have their own youtube account since videos will be uploaded using my youtube account.
Does youtube support this scenario?
If so, is there a sample code that shows me how to do this in Java?
I have used UploadVideo.java sample provided by google (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/java#upload_a_video), but it requires users to log into youtube account using their id and password. That is not my use case.
Please study the terms and conditions of the Youtube service ; I think they do not allow this:
https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms
YouTube accounts
4.1 In order to access some features of the Website or other elements of the Service, you will have to create a YouTube account. When
creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete
information. It is important that you must keep your YouTube account
password secure and confidential.
4.2 You must notify YouTube immediately of any breach of security or unauthorised use of your YouTube account that you become aware of.
4.3 You agree that you will be solely responsible (to YouTube, and to others) for all activity that occurs under your YouTube account.
and
5.1.L: you agree not to access Content or any reason other than your personal, non-commercial use solely as intended through and permitted
by the normal functionality of the Service, and solely for Streaming.
"Streaming" means a contemporaneous digital transmission of the
material by YouTube via the Internet to a user operated Internet
enabled device in such a manner that the data is intended for
real-time viewing and not intended to be downloaded (either
permanently or temporarily), copied, stored, or redistributed by the
user.
You can not let other people use your YouTube account/channel. The way to do is using YouTube Direct Lite
You basically add a ytdl with playlist tag while uploading videos.
You can check Android Client for how to do it in Java.
As to whether it is technically possible, yes, see https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/using_resumable_upload_protocol
The technical problem here is users will be able to delete videos too if they have your access token with full permissions. basically you need to:
load your html page with the upload interface.
add to the onclick event of the upload button to send an ajax request to a script on your server which will:
return the access token of your account to the client
soon thereafter change the access token using the refresh token
Its still technically vulnerable though. a possible solution is to obtain the access token ONLY with the scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload
There is a very good chance it will not be vulnerable then. You should test it.