Google API: Not a valid origin for the client: url has not been whitelisted for client ID “ID”

Question

I need help. I don\'t found an answer to my question. I tried googling and I tried asking on other sides but I never found an answer.

I\'m working with the google API

Answer 1

I just made the same mistake: Tried the official quickstart example and received the same error message as you.

It is rather confusing, because that example is a lot more complex than what I personally needed: It uses OAuth for user login, and NOT just the API key. If you are like me, and you don't want to use OAuth, and you only want to retrieve some Youtube data, without any privileged actions (e.g. if you only want to search or list videos, channels or playlists), this example is for you.

The solution is simple, just provide apiKey instead of clientId to gapi.client.init (link: API docs), like so:

const apiKey = '';

function gooApiInitClient() {
  // Array of API discovery doc URLs for APIs used by the quickstart
  const discoveryDocs = [
    "https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/youtube/v3/rest"
  ];

  return gapi.client.init({
    apiKey,
    discoveryDocs
  });
}

// see: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/javascript/reference/referencedocs
gapi.load('client', {
  callback: function() {
    // we now have gapi.client! initialize it.
    gooApiInitClient().
      then(() => {
        // we can start using the API here!
        // e.g. gapi.client.youtube.videos.list(...);
      }).then(results => { 
        // use results here....
      });
  }
});