API Reference
YouTube Comments
Get comments from a YouTube video including author, text, like count, reply count, and timestamps.
Use this to read the comments on a video with author, text, like and reply counts, and timestamps. Useful for audience research and sentiment analysis.
5 credits per request.
Quick example
curl -G "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/v1/youtube_comments" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WEBSCRAPERAPI_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "video_id=hHQlcnubuFI" \
--data-urlencode "max_results=1" \
--data-urlencode "output=json"video_id takes a video ID or a full YouTube URL. max_results defaults to 20 and goes up to 100.
Full API reference
Query Parameters
video_id*string
YouTube video ID or URL.
Length
1 <= lengthmax_results?integer
Maximum comments to return (max 100).
Default
20Range
1 <= value <= 100output?|
Output format. Defaults to json.
timeout_ms?|
Request timeout in milliseconds.
Response Body
application/json
application/json
curl -X GET "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/v1/youtube_comments?video_id=string"null{
"error": {
"code": "string",
"message": "string",
"details": {}
}
}