IMPORTANT: Upcoming ClientLogin failures for unlinked YouTube accounts

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Jeffrey Posnick

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Mar 30, 2011, 1:35:39 PM3/30/11
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Hello,

I wanted to direct everyone's attention to a recent blog post,
"ClientLogin #FAIL":

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/03/clientlogin-fail.html

The post covers a variety of issues that come up when using
ClientLogin, and makes one important announcement ("Scenario 1" in the
post) that I wanted to reiterate separately so that no one misses it.

Starting towards the end of April, attempts to use ClientLogin
authentication with a YouTube account that is not linked to a Google
Account will start failing. Once this change is in place, linking a
Google Account to an existing YouTube account is the only way to
continue using that YouTube account to authenticate with the YouTube
API.

There is more background on YouTube/Google account linking in this
blog post:

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-connecting-your-youtube-and-google.html

Please don't let this change catch you or your users off guard!

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
~ YouTube is hiring! ~ http://google.com/jobs/workyoutube ~

Jeffrey Posnick

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Apr 18, 2011, 11:09:30 AM4/18/11
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The end of April is quickly approaching, so I wanted to send out
another reminder: ClientLogin requests involving YouTube accounts that
are not linked to Google Accounts will soon start failing. Please see
the message below for more details.


On Mar 30, 1:35 pm, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I wanted to direct everyone's attention to a recent blog post,
> "ClientLogin #FAIL":
>
>  http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/03/clientlogin-fail.html
>
> The post covers a variety of issues that come up when using
> ClientLogin, and makes one important announcement ("Scenario 1" in the
> post) that I wanted to reiterate separately so that no one misses it.
>
>  Starting towards the end of April, attempts to use ClientLogin
> authentication with a YouTube account that is not linked to a Google
> Account will start failing. Once this change is in place, linking a
> Google Account to an existing YouTube account is the only way to
> continue using that YouTube account to authenticate with the YouTube
> API.
>
>  There is more background on YouTube/Google account linking in this
> blog post:
>
>  http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-connecting-your-youtub...
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