Authenticate.youtube: YouTube API authentication

In vosonSML: Collecting Social Media Data and Generating Networks for Analysis

YouTube API authentication

Description

YouTube authentication uses OAuth2 and requires a Google Developer API key as described here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'youtube'
Authenticate(socialmedia, apiKey, ...)

Arguments

socialmedia	Character string. Identifier for social media API to authenticate, set to "youtube".
apiKey	Character string. Google developer API key to authenticate.
...	Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Value

A credential object containing an api key $auth and social media type descriptor $socialmedia set to "youtube". Object has the class names "credential" and "youtube".

Examples

## Not run: 
# youtube authentication with google developer api key
myAPIKey <- "xxxxxxxxxxxx"

youtubeAuth <- Authenticate("youtube", apiKey = myAPIKey)

## End(Not run)

vosonSML documentation built on Aug. 16, 2022, 5:14 p.m.