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Admin Guide Generate Your Own YouTube API Key

UDOIT Advantage checks YouTube videos for the presence of captions, determines whether they are auto-generated, and checks to see if they match the course language. However, Google limits the number of video caption checks that can be done per day through a single API key. Due to the volume of YouTube videos at some of our customer institutions, we often reach this limit on our API key, which then prevents some of our customers from scanning additional YouTube videos.

Luckily, UDOIT Advantage allows institutions to supply their own YouTube API key. This insulates them from the usage of other institutions.

Google will provide you with a small number of credits when you first create your YouTube API Key. To get a higher number of credits, you will need to complete a Quota and Compliance Audit.

Video Guide

Instructions

To configure UDOIT Advantage with your own API key, follow these steps:

In Google

Log into your institutional Google account or a shared institutional Google account. If you do not have one, create one for this purpose.
- Note: Creating a YouTube API key for UDOIT Advantage under your personal Google account is not recommended because it can complicate transferring this key if you ever leave the institution or change roles within your institution.
Open the Google Cloud Console to the create a new project page.
- You may be asked to activate your Google Cloud Console account. Follow the on-screen prompts before proceeding.
- We suggest naming the project something like "YouTube for UDOIT Advantage" for easy future reference.
Select the Create button.
You should be taken to the All products screen. Ensure that your new project is selected in the menu bar. Otherwise you can select the project name or press Ctrl+O (Cmd+O on mac) on your keyboard to open the project picker.
In the Management section, select the APIs & Services link.
On the APIs & Services screen, select the "Enable APIs and services" button.
On the API Library screen, search for "YouTube" and choose the "YouTube Data API V3" result.
On the Product details screen, select the Enable button.
On the API/Service Details screen, notice the message at the top that says "To use this API, you may need credentials". Select the "Create Credentials" button next to this message.
On the Create credentials screen, in the "Select an API" dropdown, ensure that "YouTube Data API v3" is selected.
Under "What data will you be accessing?", select "Public data".
Select the Next button.
Copy the text from the "API Key" field.

In Canvas

In a new browser window/tab, log into Canvas.
Choose Admin from Canvas' global navigation.
Select your institution's root-level account.
From the menu of admin options, select UDOIT Admin.
Select the kebab menu in the upper right and choose Settings.
Navigate to the YouTube tab. If you do not have this tab, please submit a support request to enable this feature for your institution.
Paste the text you copied in step 13 (above) into the "Your Institution's YouTube API Key" field.
Select the "Save Settings" button at the bottom of the screen.

Result

Once you've completed the steps above, UDOIT Advantage will utilize your institutional API key (instead of ours) when checking YouTube videos, making it far less likely that you'll exceed Google's allotted number of daily caption checks.