Youtube API permission 403 Forbidden error

21
votes

I'm following the tutorial on this page but I keep getting a 403 Forbidden error when I run the app and try to do a search.

I enabled Youtube Data API v3 on the https://console.developers.google.com/ page and I created an Android API key.

Any suggestions? Thank you.

Could not search: com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 403 Forbidden
{
"code" : 403,
"errors" : [ {
"domain" : "usageLimits",
"message" : "There is a per-IP or per-Referer restriction configured on your API key and the request does not match these restrictions. Please use the Google Developers Console to update your API key configuration if request from this IP or referer should be allowed.",
"reason" : "ipRefererBlocked",
"extendedHelp" : "https://console.developers.google.com"
} ],
"message" : "There is a per-IP or per-Referer restriction configured on your API key and the request does not match these restrictions. Please use the Google Developers Console to update your API key configuration if request from this IP or referer should be allowed."
}
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I have resolved the problem by creating a Browser key instead of an android key. The browser key needs to have no entry so that it'll say "all refered allowed" – kj tolentino
You should write that as an answer and accept it so that people in the future will know what to do. – Rohan
alright Rohan, I did that. thanks. – kj tolentino
Try with Server Key instead of browser, android and IOS. – Musakkhir Sayyed

4 Answers

36
votes

I have resolved the problem by creating a Browser key instead of an android key. The browser key needs to have no entry so that it'll say "all refered allowed"

2
votes

Used this for iOS app and received same error so I removed bundle identifier and it worked

1
votes

I have resolved the problem by creating a Server key instead of an iOS key

1
votes

I had the same problem and after a lot of wasted time my hosting service figured out the API request was being generated by a different IP address than the one associated with my website.