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YouTube comment replies API

Replies to one comment.

GET /v1/youtube/video/comment/replies

GET /v1/youtube/video/comment/replies

Replies to one comment. Pass the comment's replies cursor from the comments list as cursor The cursor alone is enough (ScrapeCreators' continuationToken); the handler rejects a call with no cursor.

  • Cost: 1 credit
  • Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
  • Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

NameTypeRequiredDescription
urlURLnoVideo or Short URL (watch, youtu.be, shorts, live, embed). Accepted hosts: youtube.com, youtu.be.
idstringno11-character video id. Also accepted as videoId, video_id.
comment_idstringnoId of the parent comment. Also accepted as commentId.

Every request also accepts:

  • cursor: the cursor from the previous page (Pagination).
  • trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
  • raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
  • max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/comment/replies" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "id=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \4  --data-urlencode "comment_id=UgwPwTibxdgqCHZxktd4AaABAg" \5  --data-urlencode "cursor=Eg0SC2RRdzR3OVdnWGNRGAYygwEaUBIaVWd3UHdUaWJ4ZGdxQ0haeGt0ZDRBYUFCQWciAggAKhhVQ3VBWEZrZ3N3MUw3eGFDZm5kNUpKT3cyC2RRdzR3OVdnWGNRQAFICoIBAggBQi9jb21tZW50LXJlcGxpZXMtaXRlbS1VZ3dQd1RpYnhkZ3FDSFp4a3RkNEFhQUJBZw%3D%3D"

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened, other people's names and handles are replaced. Status 200.

200 OKSample response
1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_099c8397deae972028e6be4d",8  "data": {9    "object": "list",10    "items": [11      {12        "object": "comment",13        "platform": "youtube",14        "id": "UgwPwTibxdgqCHZxktd4AaABAg.8z9UZMV20LP8zH9Ebkoohj",15        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lc=UgwPwTibxdgqCHZxktd4AaABAg.8z9UZMV20LP8zH9Ebkoohj",16        "post_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",17        "parent_id": "UgwPwTibxdgqCHZxktd4AaABAg",18        "author": {19          "id": "1000000001",20          "handle": "sample_user",21          "name": "Sample User",22          "url": null,23          "avatar_url": null,24          "verified": false25        },26        "text": "Nice troll 👌",27        "published_at": "2019-10-30T00:00:00Z",28        "stats": {29          "likes": 3200,30          "replies": 0,31          "dislikes": null32        },33        "is_pinned": null,34        "is_by_creator": false,35        "extra": {36          "is_artist": false,37          "is_edited": false,38          "likes_approximate": true,39          "likes_text": "3.2K",40          "published_at_approximate": true,41          "published_text": "7 years ago"42        }43      },44      {45        "object": "comment",46        "platform": "youtube",47        "id": "UgwPwTibxdgqCHZxktd4AaABAg.8z9UZMV20LP8zHFw5wSZAR",48        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lc=UgwPwTibxdgqCHZxktd4AaABAg.8z9UZMV20LP8zHFw5wSZAR",49        "post_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",50        "parent_id": "UgwPwTibxdgqCHZxktd4AaABAg",51        "author": {52          "id": "1000000001",53          "handle": "sample_user",54          "name": "Sample User",55          "url": null,56          "avatar_url": null,57          "verified": false58        },59        "text": "Nice 👌",60        "published_at": "2019-10-30T00:00:00Z",61        "stats": {62          "likes": 2500,63          "replies": 0,64          "dislikes": null65        },66        "is_pinned": null,67        "is_by_creator": false,68        "extra": {69          "is_artist": false,70          "is_edited": false,71          "likes_approximate": true,72          "likes_text": "2.5K",73          "published_at_approximate": true,74          "published_text": "7 years ago"75        }76      }77    ],78    "cursor": "Eg0SC2RRdzR3OVdnWGNRGAYy2gEKU2dldF9jb21tZW50X3dpdGhfcmVwbGllc19zdHJlYW0tLUNnZ0lnQVFWRjdmUk9CSUZDS0FnR0FFaURnb01DTl90cU9zRkVOQ2l5TXdEVUFCWUFRGlASGlVnd1B3VGlieGRncUNIWnhrdGQ0QWFBQkFnIgIIACoYVUN1QVhGa2dzdzFMN3hhQ2ZuZDVKSk93MgtkUXc0dzlXZ1hjUUAB...",79    "has_more": true,80    "parent": null81  },82  "cursor": "Eg0SC2RRdzR3OVdnWGNRGAYy2gEKU2dldF9jb21tZW50X3dpdGhfcmVwbGllc19zdHJlYW0tLUNnZ0lnQVFWRjdmUk9CSUZDS0FnR0FFaURnb01DTl90cU9zRkVOQ2l5TXdEVUFCWUFRGlASGlVnd1B3VGlieGRncUNIWnhrdGQ0QWFBQkFnIgIIACoYVUN1QVhGa2dzdzFMN3hhQ2ZuZDVKSk93MgtkUXc0dzlXZ1hjUUAB...",83  "has_more": true84}

Response#

A list of Comment objects in data.items, with data.cursor and data.has_more.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

CodeHTTPRetryMeaning
invalid_params400noA parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
unsupported_url400noThe URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
not_found404noThe platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.