Youtube API Token

[Gabriel_Ripley]

The youtube Api wont let me login after I copy the client ID and Secret. The popup gives the following error:

Please share your workflow

{
“nodes”: [
{
“parameters”: {
“operation”: “get”,
“channelId”: “UCXQHzilb6_vSOCftibiDVmQ”
},
“type”: “n8n-nodes-base.youTubeTool”,
“typeVersion”: 1,
“position”: [
-160,
360
],
“id”: “68c90dd4-1ba5-4d32-a6d4-b9da83d816cb”,
“name”: “YouTube”,
“credentials”: {}
}
],
“connections”: {
“YouTube”: {
“ai_tool”: [

]
}
},
“pinData”: {},
“meta”: {
“instanceId”: “d50ae9164ab3b3fbd3a4986b8409f1d4cf3572c019e3a46f2953720743860f6a”
}
}

[n8n]

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• n8n version:
• Database (default: SQLite):
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
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[Gabriel_Ripley]

1.78.1
Youtube Api credentials/ no database

Node type

n8n-nodes-base.youTube

Node version

1 (Latest)

n8n version

1.78.1 (Cloud)

Time

2/22/2025, 7:08:06 PM

Stack trace

NodeApiError: Unable to sign without access token at ExecuteContext.googleApiRequest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-nodes-base/dist/nodes/Google/YouTube/GenericFunctions.js:25:15) at ExecuteContext.execute (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-nodes-base/dist/nodes/Google/YouTube/YouTube.node.js:531:44) at WorkflowExecute.runNode (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/execution-engine/workflow-execute.js:633:19) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/execution-engine/workflow-execute.js:882:51 at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/execution-engine/workflow-execute.js:1216:20

[Daniel_Lamphere]

Did you add you account to be a test user for your cloud project in google? Otherwise you can try to push it live.

[Gabriel_Ripley]

cheers! worked!