Google API's - Validity of server key and browser key?

Question

I am using YouTube Data API.I would like to know about the validity of both browser key and server keys ? I need these keys to run my application without any user authentication. So I need to confirm which key works well for me .

I am running scripts to get results from YouTube search API and my scripts are uploaded and executed using cron jobs. I could not find a good article or question on this.

I would greatly appreciate if you can help.

Answer 1

If you're only interested in the read-only endpoints of the data API (such as searching, listing, etc.), then you'll be able to do what you want with a browser key. Your scripts will just include it as a URL parameter (ie. ...&key=YOUR_KEY_HERE). If you ever want to do anything more than the read-only tasks (such as uploading videos, deleting info, etc.), you'll have to use oAuth.