Hi, I’m trying to create my first workflow using the Youtube API. I have successfully created my credentials on the Google Cloud Platform, but when I click on sign on google and after the authorization stage ( screenshot here ), I get a pop-up asking me to enter a username and a password ( screenshot h…

Gu @moniquebma , welcome to the community :tada: This is indeed a peculiarity of the desktop app - it randomly generates these credentials to secure the tunnel it opens (which allows external services like YouTube or Google to send data to your local computer). You can find them as described in this…

thanks for the help, my connection works now! Maybe this should be indicated somewhere in the documentation? maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see this mentioned anywhere…

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MutedJam December 7, 2021, 8:26am 4

Glad to hear this is working!

You’re absolutely right here, I’ll add a quick hint towards this to our documentation. @ivov is also considering making the credentials available in-app to make this easier:

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