diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 68ef739..473293e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -83,10 +83,12 @@ If you plan a larger usage, please consider creating your own youtube_secret fil
 
  - Go to the [Google console](https://console.developers.google.com/).
  - Create project.
- - Side menu: APIs & auth -> APIs
- - Top menu: Enabled API(s): Enable all Youtube APIs.
- - Side menu: APIs & auth -> Credentials.
- - Create a Client ID: Add credentials -> OAuth 2.0 Client ID -> Other -> Name: prismedia1 -> Create -> OK
+ - Side menu: APIs & Services -> APIs
+ - Top menu: Enabled API(s): Enable Youtube Data v3 APIs.
+ - Side menu: OAuth consent screen 
+ - Create an app -> User type External -> Add scope from Youtube Data API v3: `.../auth/youtube.force-ssl` and `.../auth/youtube.upload` -> No test user -> save & create
+ - Side menu: APIs & Services -> Credentials.
+ - Create a Client ID: Create credentials -> OAuth Client ID -> Other -> Name: prismedia1 -> Create -> OK
  - Download JSON: Under the section "OAuth 2.0 client IDs". Save the file to your local system.
  - Save this JSON as your youtube_secret.json file.
 
diff --git a/prismedia/pt_upload.py b/prismedia/pt_upload.py
index adb5a36..6afbdd3 100644
--- a/prismedia/pt_upload.py
+++ b/prismedia/pt_upload.py
@@ -381,7 +381,10 @@ def create_callback(encoder, progress_type):
 def run(options):
     secret = RawConfigParser()
     try:
-        secret.read(PEERTUBE_SECRETS_FILE)
+        if options.get('--credentialsdir') :
+            secret.read(os.path.join(options.get('--credentialsdir'), PEERTUBE_SECRETS_FILE))
+        else :
+            secret.read(PEERTUBE_SECRETS_FILE)
     except Exception as e:
         logger.critical("Peertube: Error loading " + str(PEERTUBE_SECRETS_FILE) + ": " + str(e))
         exit(1)
diff --git a/prismedia/upload.py b/prismedia/upload.py
index 6fd1778..a5e7f92 100755
--- a/prismedia/upload.py
+++ b/prismedia/upload.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Options:
                 By default Prismedia search a .txt based on the video name and will
                 decode the file as UTF-8 (so make sure your nfo file is UTF-8 encoded)
                 See nfo_example.txt for more details
+  --credentialsdir=STRING  Set directory where to search for secret file.
   --platform=STRING  List of platform(s) to upload to, comma separated.
                      Supported platforms are youtube and peertube (default is both)
   --language=STRING  Specify the default language for video. See below for supported language. (default is English)
@@ -279,6 +280,7 @@ def main():
         Optional('--withCategory', default=False): bool,
         Optional('--withLanguage', default=False): bool,
         Optional('--withChannel', default=False): bool,
+        Optional('--credentialsdir'): Or(None, And(str, os.path.exists, error='credentialsdir does not exist')),
         # This allow to return all other options for further use: https://github.com/keleshev/schema#extra-keys
         object: object
     })
diff --git a/prismedia/yt_upload.py b/prismedia/yt_upload.py
index e8809c5..b00dd52 100644
--- a/prismedia/yt_upload.py
+++ b/prismedia/yt_upload.py
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ RETRIABLE_EXCEPTIONS = (
 RETRIABLE_STATUS_CODES = [500, 502, 503, 504]
 
 
-CLIENT_SECRETS_FILE = 'youtube_secret.json'
-CREDENTIALS_PATH = ".youtube_credentials.json"
+CLIENT_SECRETS_FILE_BASE = 'youtube_secret.json'
+CREDENTIALS_PATH_BASE = ".youtube_credentials.json"
 SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl']
 API_SERVICE_NAME = 'youtube'
 API_VERSION = 'v3'
@@ -358,6 +358,13 @@ def hearthbeat():
 
 
 def run(options):
+    global CLIENT_SECRETS_FILE, CREDENTIALS_PATH
+    if options.get('--credentialsdir') :
+        CLIENT_SECRETS_FILE = os.path.join(options.get('--credentialsdir'), CLIENT_SECRETS_FILE_BASE)
+        CREDENTIALS_PATH = os.path.join(options.get('--credentialsdir'), CREDENTIALS_PATH_BASE)
+    else :
+        CLIENT_SECRETS_FILE = CLIENT_SECRETS_FILE_BASE
+        CREDENTIALS_PATH = CREDENTIALS_PATH_BASE
     youtube = get_authenticated_service()
     try:
         initialize_upload(youtube, options)