YouTube Comments API

Read YouTube comments with totals, newest or top sort, and reply cursors. No Google API key.

What the YouTube comments API returns

• Comment text, author, likes
• Total comment count when the page exposes it
• Sort: top or newest
• Reply cursors for thread replies
• id accepts a video ID or a full YouTube watch URL

Example

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://youtube-public-data-api.p.rapidapi.com/video/comments?id=dQw4w9WgXcQ' \
  --header 'X-RapidAPI-Host: youtube-public-data-api.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY'

Continue with cursor / next_page_token. Community post comments use /community-post/comments.

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