YouTube authentication uses OAuth2 and requires a Google Developer API key as described here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/.
# S3 method for youtube
Authenticate(socialmedia, apiKey, ...)Character string. Identifier for social media API to authenticate, set to "youtube".
Character string. Google developer API key to authenticate.
Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.
A credential object containing an api key $auth and social media type descriptor
$socialmedia set to "youtube". Object has the class names "credential" and "youtube".
if (FALSE) {
# youtube authentication with google developer api key
myAPIKey <- "xxxxxxxxxxxx"
youtubeAuth <- Authenticate("youtube", apiKey = myAPIKey)
}