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Explain the YouTube API key and refuse OAuth values in its field - #1608
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Summary
7 of the 8 YouTube Data setups in the first week of November stopped at Google's "API key not valid". The field had no help text or format check. The usual mix-up on the Credentials page is pasting the OAuth client ID or client secret instead of the API key.
Changes
youtube-data.json:envVarMetaforYOUTUBE_API_KEYwith a label, help (where to create it, "starts with AIza, 39 characters", not the OAuth client ID / secret), a link to the Credentials page, and a pattern that refuses an OAuth client ID, a client secret (GOCSPX-), an access token (ya29.) and values with spaces. The pattern does not require theAIzaprefix, so a key in a future Google format is not blocked.Same in Cloud and self-hosted.
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