How to integrate your YouTube API key with SmartlyQ

Search for related videos for your content in YouTube automatically!

Introduction

In SmartlyQ you can use your own YouTube API key to enrich your content by searching for relevant YouTube videos!

Follow our step-by-step guide below to implement this feature!

Step 1: Access the Google API Console

You need a Google Account to access the Google API Console, request an API key, and register your application.

1. First you need to create a project in the Google Developers Console and obtain authorization credentials so your application can submit API requests.

Give your project a relevant name and press "CREATE".

Step 2: Enable YouTube Data API v3

After creating your project, make sure the YouTube Data API is one of the services that your application is registered to use:

1. Go to the API Console and select the project that you just registered.
2. Visit the Enabled APIs page. In the list of APIs, make sure the status is ON for the YouTube Data API v3.

Then press "+Enable APIs and services" to go to the API library

Search for YouTube Data API v3 and press Enter

Select the YouTube Data API v3 result

On the next screen finally press "ENABLE"

Step 3: Create your credentials

Press the "CREATE CREDENTIALS" button, in the next screen to create your API keys to be used in SmartlyQ!

Select "Public data" as credentials type, in the first step, and press "NEXT"

Congratulations! You've just created your YouTube API key! Make sure to copy it and store it somewhere safe! Once you've safely copied it, press "DONE" to close this window.

Step 4: Insert YouTube API key into SmartlyQ

1. Log into SmartlyQ:

• Go to smartlyq.com and log in to your account.

2. Navigate to Accounts > Account Details:

• Look for the Account Details settings of your SmartlyQ account. This is found in the left menu under the TOOLS heading. Expand the "Account" dropdown and select the "Account Details" option

• In the next screen, select  "Google API" fro the left hand side menu:

3. Under the "YouTube" section simply paste your API key and press "Save Changes". You're all set!

You can also view the video version of the above tutorial here: