NOTE: THIS GEM IS DEPRECATED IN FAVOR OF google_oauth2
This gem no longer works. Try omniauth-google-oauth2 instead:
config.omniauth :google_oauth2,KEY,SECRET, { access_type: "offline", approval_prompt: "force", name: "youtube" }
For more discussion, see omniauth-youtube issue #7
This is an OmniAuth 1.0 strategy for authenticating to YouTube.
Get a Google Oauth2.0 API key at their API console
Your key (AKA client_id) looks like "555555555555.apps.googleusercontent.com"; a longer key like "555555555-xxxxyyyzzz" won't work. See this issue for discussion.
An example Rails 3.2 application using omniauth and omniauth-youtube is also available: https://github.com/jamiew/omniauth-rails-app
In a Rack application:
use OmniAuth::Builder do
provider :youtube, ENV['YOUTUBE_KEY'], ENV['YOUTUBE_SECRET'], {:access_type => 'online', :approval_prompt => ''}
endFor Rails, put this in config/initializers/omniauth.rb:
Rails.application.config.middleware.use OmniAuth::Builder do
provider :youtube, ENV['YOUTUBE_KEY'], ENV['YOUTUBE_SECRET'], {:access_type => 'online', :approval_prompt => ''}
endRestart your server and visit /auth/youtube to try it out
Re. :access_type and :approval_prompt, via omniauth-google-oauth2:
If you don't need a refresh token -- you're only using Google for account creation/auth and don't need Google services -- set the access_type to 'online', vs. 'offline' Also, set the approval prompt to an empty string, since otherwise it will be set to 'force', which makes users manually approve to the Oauth every time they log in. See http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcoming-changes-to-oauth-20-endpoint.html
Copyright (c) 2011 Jamie Wilkinson
This source code released under an MIT license.