YouTube generator

Tutorial

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Go to this page: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/

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Click on Create project

If you already had projects, you can create a new one from the project selector.

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Give a Name to your project, select a Location and click on Create.

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Make sure, that your current project is selected at the top.

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Press Enable APIs and services.

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Look for the YouTube Data API v3 then select it.

Enable it.

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Go to  Credentials and click on Create credentials. Select OAuth client ID.

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Click on Configure consent screen.

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Select External user type.

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Enter the App name and User support email.Enter your website's domain into the Authorized Domain and add a developer email address. Then click Save and continue.

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After the previous step you won't need to go through the rest of the steps Google will ask about. So just go to OAuth consent screen and press Publish app.

Confirm it.

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Go to Credentials. Select Create credentials -> OAuth client ID again.

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Choose Web application.

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Go to the Smart Slider's backend, Global Settings → Generators → YouTube, and copy the Callback url.

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Write your website's address under Authorized JavaScript origins, and paste the Callback url under the Authorized redirect URIs, and click on Create.

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Copy the Client ID and Client secret.

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Go back to the Smart Slider's backend, Global Settings → Generators → YouTube and paste them there. Then click on Request token. (Make sure that you don't have any empty space characters in the end or beginning of them.)

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Allow your API to get access to your YouTube account.

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You will receive a Token, and you should save the settings.

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Now the api is done, create a new dynamic slide

To get started, go to any Slider Settings page and add a new dynamic slide. Choose YouTube.

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Configuring the generator

Set up your generator. Choose the settings you want. Popular options you probably want to configure: category where your content will be pulled from, the number of slides you want to have, the ordering of the content.

You can also click on the View Records button to see the data you'll be creating your slide with.

When you're done, click on Add.

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Editing the dynamic slide

After you saved your generator, you'll be redirected to the Slide Editor to set up the look of your slide. You can create your content by using variables.

Not sure what are the variables or how to use them? Learn how to work with variables.

Configuration

You can use these options to set what you want your generator to show.

Filter

By search

Search term

The word you would like to search for in the videos.

By playlist

Playlist

Choose one from your playlists from where you want to show the videos.

Generator Settings

Learn about the Generator Settings at the Generator Settings documentation.

Variables

These are the available variables you can use to build your dynamic slide content in the Slide Editor.

Not sure what are the variables or how to use them? Learn how to work with variables.

By search, By playlist

• video_id - The id of the video.
• video_url - The url of the video.
• title - The title of the video.
• description - The description of the video.
• thumbnail - The default size thumbnail image of the video.
• thumbnail_medium - The medium size thumbnail image of the video.
• thumbnail_high - The high size thumbnail image of the video.
• channel_title - The title of the the video's channel.
• channel_url - The url of the the video's channel.