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Google Youtube Authentication

Authentication

YouTube Data secures its APIs with apiKey and oauth2 across 2 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the authorizationCode flow(s).

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Methods: apiKey, oauth2 Schemes: 2 OAuth flows: authorizationCode API key in: query

Security Schemes

oauth2 oauth2
· flows: authorizationCode
apiKey apiKey
· in: query (key)

Source

Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/youtube.yml
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  - oauth2
  api_key_in:
  - query
  oauth2_flows:
  - authorizationCode
schemes:
- name: oauth2
  type: oauth2
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
    tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
    scopes: 3
  sources:
  - openapi/youtube.yml
- name: apiKey
  type: apiKey
  in: query
  parameter: key
  sources:
  - openapi/youtube.yml