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Setup

Connect your channel.

Six steps, about five minutes, once. At the end, ClipForge can upload finished videos straight to your YouTube channel.

Why you need your own Google project

  • Google allows each project a fixed number of uploads per day.
  • If every ClipForge customer shared one, we would all be competing for roughly six uploads a day between us.
  • On a project you own, the allowance is yours alone — and so is the connection to your channel.

Create a Google Cloud project

Open console.cloud.google.com and sign in with the Google account that owns your YouTube channel. Open the project dropdown at the top, then choose New project.

Google Cloud Select a project ▾ A panel opens. Top right of it: NEW PROJECT Name it anything — “ClipForge” is fine.

Turn on the YouTube Data API

With your new project selected, go to APIs & Services › Library, search for YouTube Data API v3, and press Enable. This is the permission that lets anything upload on your behalf.

APIs & Services › Library youtube data api YouTube Data API v3 Google LLC ENABLE

Set up the consent screen

This is the screen you will see when you grant access. Under OAuth consent screen, choose External, fill in an app name and your email, and save.

OAuth consent screen Internal — not available to you External
Do not skip this

Still on the consent screen, find Audience › Test users and add the Google account that owns your channel.

Until Google verifies your project, only accounts listed there may sign in. Everyone else — including you, if you skip it — gets Access blocked at the final step, and nothing explains why.

Copy your redirect address

You will need this in the next step. It tells Google where to send you after you approve access.

https://clipforgee.app/api/youtube/callback
It must match exactly

One missing character and the sign-in fails with redirect_uri_mismatch. Copy it — do not retype it.

Create the credentials

Go to Credentials › Create credentials › OAuth client ID. Choose Web application as the type, then paste the address from step 4 under Authorised redirect URIs.

Credentials › Create credentials OAuth client ID Application type Web application Authorised redirect URIs paste the address from step 4

Paste the two values into ClipForge

Google now shows you a client ID and a client secret. Copy both into the last step of the ClipForge setup, then press Save and connect.

Paste them here Client ID 497465595165-abc….apps.googleusercontent.com Client secret ••••••••••••••••••••••

The client ID ends in .apps.googleusercontent.com; the secret starts with GOCSPX-. If you paste the wrong one, ClipForge tells you before it saves.

What happens next

  • A Google sign-in window opens straight away. Approve access with the account that owns your channel, and you are done.
  • While your project is unverified by Google, the connection expires after about a week. ClipForge says so on the Home screen and you reconnect with one click — nothing to set up again. To stop it happening, publish your consent screen in Google Cloud and complete their verification.
  • Changed your mind about automatic uploads? Turn off Publish after rendering in Settings. Videos still get made; you download and post them yourself.

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