YouTube API authentication — Authenticate.youtube • vosonSML

YouTube authentication uses OAuth2 and requires a Google Developer API key as described here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/.

# S3 method for youtube
Authenticate(socialmedia, apiKey, ...)

Arguments

socialmedia: Character string. Identifier for social media API to authenticate, set to "youtube".
apiKey: Character string. Google developer API key to authenticate.
...: Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Value

A credential object containing an api key $auth and social media type descriptor $socialmedia set to "youtube". Object has the class names "credential" and "youtube".

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# youtube authentication with google developer api key
myAPIKey <- "xxxxxxxxxxxx"

youtubeAuth <- Authenticate("youtube", apiKey = myAPIKey)
}