How to Create and Setup Youtube API Key, ID and Secret for Kodi

SORRY, BUT THIS IS QUITE A LONG GUIDE. BUT HAVE A BIT OF PATIENCE AND YOU'LL GET THROUGH IT

Below is a guide for creating your own Youtube API Key with ID and Secret. The reason for doing this is to eliminate any YouTube over quota limit messages you may get in Kodi and also allow access to your subscriptions etc.

Go to developers.google.com & login to your Google account (you probably already will be but this step is added just to ensure you are)
Now go to console.developers.google.com
Click on Select Project at the top of the screen

Select New Project

You will now see a box labelled Project name. Give it a simple name you can easily recognise and then click Create

Wait for the notification (top right) saying the project has been created and click on SELECT PROJECT

Scroll down the project page and look for the Getting Started Section and then select Explore and enable APIs

Select Library from the left hand menu

Start typing YouTube select YouTube Data API vX

Select the YouTube API

Select Enable on the next screen

Now select Credentials from the right hand menu

Select Create Credentials at the top of the screen

Select API Key

Copy your API Key to a text file so you can easily access it when you need it later

Now select OAuth Consent Screen

Select External and then Create

Enter a name (just use the same name as you did at the beginning) and enter an email (clicking on the arrow icon will bring up the email associated with the logged in aaccount so just use that

Scroll to the bottom. Enter your email again and select SAVE AND CONTINUE

On the next page (SCOPES) just scroll to the bottom and click on SAVE AND CONTINUE

On next page (Test Users) just scroll to the bottom and click on SAVE AND CONTINUE

on the final page (Summary) scroll to the bottom and select BACK TO DASHBOARD

Select Credentials from left hand menu

Now click Create Credentials which is located towards the top of the screen

Select OAuth Client ID from the dropdown that appears

Click on Application Type and select TVS and Limited Input Devices. You can also give this a name. I just left it as the default. Then click Create

You will now see a box with your Client ID and Secret. Copy both and add to the text file where we saved the API key before. That is the process complete. You just need to add it to YouTube on Kodi

Open YouTube on Kodi
Scroll down to Settings

Highlight API in the left hand menu

Now paste your API, Client ID and Secret in the corresponding boxes on the right and then click OK

YouTube should now no longer give you API errors