Description

Introduction

Subscriber Login for YouTube is a WordPress plugin for Google OAuth 2.0 authentication with YouTube Google account.

Features

Authentication — get the user coming from Google authentication;
Get user information — get the user data from their Google account;
Refresh token — refresh the user’s access token;
Revoke token — revoke the user’s access token;
Check if an user is subscribed on a given YouTube channel;

For more information about Google OAuth 2.0, please see Using OAuth 2.0 for Web Server Applications

Requirements

PHP 7.0 or later;
WordPress 4.4 or later;

Setting

Before using Subscriber Login for YouTube, you need to set up an Google project for web application in Google Console. It’s a Google requirement for users to login! The web application project will provide: GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET, and GOOGLE_REDIRECT_URI.

Activate the “YouTube Data API v3” in your project and add the scopes openid, email, and https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly for its consent screen. See more details in Setting up OAuth 2.0.

Access Scopes

The scopes are used by Google to limit your application access to the user account data. Read more about YouTube Data API scopes.

Usage

After you activated the plugin, then the plugin will automatically:

add the “Sign in with YouTube” button to the WordPress login page. See screenshot #1.
add the “Revoke access” link to the WordPress profile page. See screenshot #2.

License

Subscriber Login for YouTube is open-sourced software licensed under the GPL v2.0 or later.

Screenshots

“Sign in with YouTube” button on the main WP login page.
“Revoke access” link on the WordPress profile page.
Subscriber Login for YouTube on the WordPress Settings page.

Installation

Automatic installation

Open the WordPress admin screen for your site. Navigate to “Plugins > Add New”, and search for Subscriber Login for YouTube.
Click the “Install Now” button.
Then activate the Subscriber Login for YouTube plugin.
Go to the “Settings > Subscriber Login for YouTube” to set up your Google OAuth 2.0 client and YouTube channel information.
Test the configuration by clicking the sign in button on WordPress login page.

Manual installation

Download Subscriber Login for YouTube.
Upload Subscriber Login for YouTube through “Plugins > Add New > Upload” admin screen or upload subscriber-login-for-youtube folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the Subscriber Login for YouTube plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Go to the “Settings > Subscriber Login for YouTube” to set up your Google OAuth 2.0 client and YouTube channel information.
Test the configuration by clicking the sign in button on WordPress login page.

Reviews

Tecca January 12, 2023

The plugin checks if a user trying to register/login on your site is subscribed to your YouTube channel, via Google OAuth. If not subscribed, the user gets rejected and account is not created, displaying a message to them that they have to be subscribed to your YT account to login or register. This is very handy in cases where your website is subscriber-only, but bear in mind that it doesn’t have a setting to turn sub-only “off.” That’s understandable since the plugin was made specifically for subscribers, but I do think more people can find utility with the plugin as just a YouTube OAuth login (just to simply verify the user is logging in via a YouTube account). Of course, you can use any OAuth plugin for this, but adding additional functionality could turn people toward this one specifically. Google will require manual verification when using the YTv3 scope, and uploading a video is part of the requirement. I was approved within a day, however. 5-stars, plugin works exactly as described.

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Contributors & Developers

“Subscriber Login for YouTube” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

LCMAquino

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Changelog

1.0.4

Code refactoring for PSR-4 compliance.

1.0.3

Update version on includes/SlytOption.php.

1.0.2

Add assets directory for release on WordPress Plugin Directory.
Change plugin license to GPLv2 or later to match with WordPress license.
Update readme.txt.

1.0.1

Fix issues in WordPress Plugin Review #1.

1.0.0

Initial plugin version.