‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing when uploading to YouTube API

Question

For several years we have successfully been uploading videos via the YouTube API using some custom JavaScript code. The code was based on some samples provided by Google (co

Answer 1

Same here. I have no Solution, just a workaround and I hope they fix it soon. You can disable the CORS safetycheck in chrome. Run chrome.exe with --disable-web-security and set the user-data Directory temporary to another location, with the following parameter and the folder you want --user-data-dir=c:/anyfolderName/`

For security reasons you should disable-web-security only if you have to and switch back if youre done.

I dont know why this get a downvote, because it helped me to get around. Now google fixed the issue, no need to use this workaround longer. But maybe it helps when another CORS issue arise...