[YouTube-API] Re: Getting Insight/Analytic CSV Zip with OAuth/OAuth2 API

Hello,

The value of the token parameter in an Insight URL is opaque, and you
should never adjust it. Just used whatever's returned from the API.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Feb 29, 1:11 pm, micha <micha...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to download automatically the statistics of the channels and videos
> of our customer.
> Therefore I use a ruby library (oauth / oauth-plugin) to get a temporarily
> access token for the download process.
>
> * I have created a project onhttps://code.google.com/apis/console
> * I use the client key and secret to get a youtube authorization for this
> project (with oauth1 protocol because of problems with the library and
> oauth2)
> * now I have consumer tokens in my database like
> 1/ykeB9Zjb-eoysRePnuBnoZmwD5AckpSBbqJxco-K8T4 and a secret
>
> With this information I want to generate an access token to use it to
> download the insight files.
>
> If I download the files directly I get a Link with a token parameter:
>
> http://insight.youtube.com/video-analytics/csvreports?query=xxxx&type...
>
> What is this token exactly? Is it correct that I must get an access token
> with my request token, I got from the oauth authorising a request token
> step?
> The next problem is, that I must know the access token to put it in the
> insight download request. But I never see this token.
>
> I didn't understand this. Can someone help me?

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