Anybody know how to get Minitube working w/ Google API key?

[exhausted]

I've read the message from the emerge output. I've read everything relevant I can find online, including the instructions from the developer. I can generate a Google browser API key, create and set the environment variable MINITUBE_GOOGLE_API_KEY to the name of my key, and I can even compile Minitube, passing the Google API key/environment variable check during the emerge. The environment variable shows up correctly when I check it use the set command. However, every time I search for videos, I get the following server denied error:

[Unknown-Creation]

I got Minitube 2.4 to work by doing the following:

1.) Create a new project at https://console.developers.google.com/ . Call it whatever you want.
2 .) Select your new project. In the sidebar to the right, select APIs & Auth -> Credentials and create a new Public API Access Key (browser key).
3.) Once that is done, there is some information about the key you generated listed on that page. The API key needs to be passed to the ebuild using the variable MINITUBE_GOOGLE_API_KEY. An easy way to do it with little fuss is to place this inside a file in the directory /etc/portage/env (ex: minitube_google_api_key):

[F1r31c3r]

It is 2016 and version 2.5.2 is out.

Here is how it is done now for anyone that is having this issue on upgrading.

*
* Since version 2.4, you need to generate a Google API Key to use
* with this application. Please head over to
* https://console.developers.google.com/ and
* https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube/blob/master/README.md
* for more information. Once you have generated your key,
* please put it in QSettings key "googleApiKey", e.g.:
* # echo 'googleApiKey=YourKeyHere' >> "${HOME}/.config/Flavio Tordini/Minitube.conf"
*

So Edit your users minitube.conf.