Title: YouTube API, got error: 1 Last modified: March 4, 2017 --- # YouTube API, got error: 1 * Resolved [inktvusa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inktv/) * (@inktv) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/youtube-api-got-error-1/) * ``` Checking your key ... Something went wrong, WP YouTube Lyte might not have been able to retrieve information from the YouTube API, got error: 1 Checking your key ... API key not OK, your key seems to be valid, but restricted to an IP-address which is not your server's.Try changing the allowed IP for your API key to include this one: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ``` * What’s the deal with this error all of a sudden? - This topic was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by [inktvusa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inktv/). Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/) * (@futtta) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/youtube-api-got-error-1/#post-8875449) * the first one is if Lyte doesn’t succeed in getting a response from YT, but that seems to be fixed when you get the second error which is a problem with your key configuration in youtube. try removing any ip-restriction on the key or simply create a new one. * yt api key’s can be a pain, we’ve all been there I’m afraid .. * frank * Thread Starter [inktvusa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inktv/) * (@inktv) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/youtube-api-got-error-1/#post-8900673) * Hi Frank, * All API keys that I have are working for every plugin that requires it. However, with this plugin, I am getting “Client errors (4xx)” in my API Dashboard. I tested my key using this URL : * `https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=&key=` * This is the error I received in the JSON response : * { “error”: { “errors”: [ { “domain”: “usageLimits”, “reason”: “ipRefererBlocked”,“ message”: “The request did not specify any referer. Please ensure that the client is sending referer or use the API Console to remove the referer restrictions.”,“ extendedHelp”: “[https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=462388451704”](https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=462388451704”);}],“ code”: 403, “message”: “The request did not specify any referer. Please ensure that the client is sending referer or use the API Console to remove the referer restrictions.” } } * Can you please update your plugin to specify the referrer which could be the IP or domain name, please? * Thank you. * Thread Starter [inktvusa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inktv/) * (@inktv) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/youtube-api-got-error-1/#post-8900679) * Hi Frank, * All API keys that I have are working for every plugin that requires it. However, with this plugin, I am getting “Client errors (4xx)” in my API Dashboard. I tested my key using this URL : * `https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=&key=` * This is the error I received in the JSON response : * { “error”: { “errors”: [ { “domain”: “usageLimits”, “reason”: “ipRefererBlocked”,“ message”: “The request did not specify any referer. Please ensure that the client is sending referer or use the API Console to remove the referer restrictions.”,“ extendedHelp”: “[https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=462388451704”](https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=462388451704”);}],“ code”: 403, “message”: “The request did not specify any referer. Please ensure that the client is sending referer or use the API Console to remove the referer restrictions.” } } * Can you please update your plugin to specify the referrer which could be the IP or domain name, please? * Thank you! * Thread Starter [inktvusa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inktv/) * (@inktv) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/youtube-api-got-error-1/#post-8900762) * Frank, * In addition, I tried a key without a referrer restriction and it worked properly. It would still be great if you could update the plugin to include the referrer. * Thank you for such a great plugin. 🙂 * Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/) * (@futtta) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/youtube-api-got-error-1/#post-8901576) * > In addition, I tried a key without a referrer restriction and it worked properly. * that’s indeed the best approach. * > It would still be great if you could update the plugin to include the referrer. * I’ll put in on my list of possible improvements, thanks! 🙂 * have a nice weekend, frank Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘YouTube API, got error: 1’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-youtube-lyte/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=1836005) * [WP YouTube Lyte](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-youtube-lyte/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-youtube-lyte/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-youtube-lyte/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-youtube-lyte/reviews/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/) * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/youtube-api-got-error-1/#post-8901576) * Status: resolved