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The first step to get a YouTube API key is to log in to the Google Developer Console.

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The link to the console is in the appendix of the section.

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You will need a Google account as mentioned in the prerequisites lecture of the introduction section.

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The Resource Manager page will look like this.

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Click Create Project button at the top and give it a meaningful name to the project like YouTube API

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course.

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For organization, you can leave it as no organization and press create.

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Give it some time to create the project.

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You will see it loading over here.

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Refresh.

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And you will find the project here.

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Once you create a project, everything you do from here onwards, including creating the API key will

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apply to that specific project.

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If you have multiple projects going on at the same time, ensure that the correct one is selected.

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Now, to create the actual API key, go on the navigation menu on the left.

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Hover over API and services and click library.

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In the library, go down to the section under YouTube and press YouTube data API version three.

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Click enable.

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And from here press on the create button.

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So you can leave this as default.

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We're using the API version three.

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Click on the Public Data button as we will only be interested with public data.

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Click next.

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And here you have it.

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This is the API key which we will be using in this course.

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Now before we press done here you can see that there is this restrict key button.

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In a production environment you want to limit which your website's IP addresses or apps that can call

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the APIs with the key.

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For our use case, we will restrict it to just the YouTube API version three.

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So we can press Restrict key and we find YouTube API version three.

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Click okay and press save.

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We might need to redo this step again.

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Just click on public data and done.

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And that's it.

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Now if we go over to the credentials section under the APIs and services we should find the API key

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there.

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And there we have the API key which we'll be using.

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An important note before we close this off is that you should not share this key with anyone.

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And once you are done with the project, you should delete it.