Tell the two API-key setup failures apart in verify_api.py
Ran Phase 0 against a live key and hit both of the ways a fresh Google Cloud
project can be wrong, in sequence. Google reports them as the same 403
`forbidden`, so the first version of this script printed reason='forbidden'
three times and buried the one sentence that said what to do.
The distinguishing signal is in error.details[].reason, not
error.errors[].reason:
SERVICE_DISABLED YouTube Data API v3 is not enabled on the project.
Carries an activationUrl naming the project number.
API_KEY_SERVICE_BLOCKED The API is enabled, but this key's API restrictions
exclude it.
They are fixed on different console screens, so they are now separate exception
types with separate advice, and a one-call preflight reports either before the
three real checks run and fail identically.
The ordering between them is a trap worth writing down: YouTube Data API v3 does
not appear in a key's API-restriction picker until the API is enabled on the
project, so creating the key and restricting it first yields a key that blocks
the only API it exists for. That is precisely what happened here. §4.1 step 4
now says to enable before restricting.
Nothing has yet reached YouTube's own privacy check, so whether the brother's
subscriptions are readable is still untested — every call so far failed at the
key.
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4. Restrict the key: Application restrictions → *None* (it is called from a server, so referrer and
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Android/iOS restrictions do not apply; an IP restriction is optional and breaks if susan's
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residential IP rotates). API restrictions → **YouTube Data API v3 only**.
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**Do step 2 before this step.** YouTube Data API v3 does not appear in the API-restriction picker
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until it is enabled on the project, so restricting first produces a key that blocks the one API it
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exists for — see §16, which is exactly what happened.
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5. Paste it into the ytstream admin UI. It is stored in the `setting` table like
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`jellyfin_api_key` already is — never in the repo, never in a systemd unit.
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@@ -778,6 +781,11 @@ Things already paid for once. All of these are verified.
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spend an afternoon trying to scrape it; the API is the only route (§4).
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- **`pkill -f 'ytstream.py'` kills the shell that runs it**, because the command string contains its
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own pattern. Bracket it: `pkill -f 'ytstrea[m].py'`.
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- **Google returns 403 `forbidden` for two unrelated setup mistakes**, and the useful signal is in
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`error.details[].reason`, not `error.errors[].reason`. `SERVICE_DISABLED` means the API is not
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enabled on the project (and carries an `activationUrl` naming the project number);
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`API_KEY_SERVICE_BLOCKED` means the API is enabled but *this key's* restrictions exclude it. They
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are fixed on different console screens. `tools/verify_api.py` distinguishes them and prints the fix.
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---
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@@ -800,12 +808,24 @@ Things already paid for once. All of these are verified.
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- **`tools/verify_api.py` written and self-tested** (ISO-8601 duration parser unit-checked against six
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cases; argparse and import verified). It runs all three API checks in one command.
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### Blocked on one thing only
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### Key created, project 510818173753 — two setup steps deep, one to go
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**There is no Google API key on this machine** — I searched for `AIza`-shaped strings across
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`/opt/*`, `/home/susan`, the settings table and the config trees, and there is none. Creating one
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needs a browser and Tom's Google account (§4.1, ~5 minutes, free, no billing). Until then these three
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remain unverified:
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Progress on the key itself, all of it diagnosed from the error bodies:
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1. **Key created** and reaching Google — it authenticates, so the key string is good.
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2. **`SERVICE_DISABLED`** — YouTube Data API v3 was not enabled on project `510818173753`. Fixed by
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enabling it.
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3. **`API_KEY_SERVICE_BLOCKED`** ← *current state.* The API is now enabled, but the key's own API
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restrictions exclude it, so every method returns "Requests to this API youtube method … are
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blocked". Fix at
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`https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials?project=510818173753` → the key → API
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restrictions → *Don't restrict key*, or tick YouTube Data API v3.
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The ordering trap is worth remembering rather than rediscovering: the API must be enabled **before**
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the key can be restricted to it, because it is absent from the picker until then. §4.1 step 4 now
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says so.
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Until the key answers, these three assumptions remain unverified:
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| # | Assumption | Consequence if it fails |
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@@ -814,8 +834,9 @@ remain unverified:
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| 3 | `videos.list` returns parseable `contentDetails.duration` | No `<durationinseconds>` in NFOs without a yt-dlp extraction per video. Degrades, does not block. |
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Only #1 is a genuine blocker, and it also carries the number that sets `subsync_max_new`. Two
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prerequisites, both external: **Tom creates the API key**, and **his brother unchecks "Keep all my
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subscriptions private"**. Then one command closes Phase 0:
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external prerequisites remain: **the key's API restriction** (above), and **his brother unchecking
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"Keep all my subscriptions private"** — note that nothing so far has tested the second, because every
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call has failed at the key before reaching YouTube's privacy check. Then one command closes Phase 0:
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```sh
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python3 /opt/ytstream/tools/verify_api.py --key AIza...
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