YouTube Data · OAuth Scopes

YouTube Data OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 derived

YouTube Data publishes 3 OAuth 2.0 scopes via the authorizationCode flow. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the YouTube Data API on a user’s behalf.

Tokens are issued from https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token.

This index is generated from the provider’s OpenAPI security definitions (and, where available, its documented scope reference) and refreshes on every APIs.io network build. Browse every provider’s scopes at scopes.apis.io.

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Scopes: 3 Flows: authorizationCode Method: derived

OAuth endpoints

Authorization URL
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth

Token URL
https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token

Flows
authorizationCode

Scopes (3)

Scope	Description	Flows
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube	Manage your YouTube account	authorizationCode
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly	View your YouTube account	authorizationCode
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload	Upload YouTube videos	authorizationCode

📄 Provider scope reference:

Source

OAuth Scopes

generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/youtube.yml
schemes:
- name: oauth2
  source: openapi/youtube.yml
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
    tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
scopes:
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube
  description: Manage your YouTube account
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/youtube.yml
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly
  description: View your YouTube account
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/youtube.yml
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload
  description: Upload YouTube videos
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/youtube.yml