YouTube Comments API
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Read comments on a YouTube video, up to 100 per call, with text, author, likes, reply count, date and whether each is a reply. Sort by newest or popular, set a start date with since, and use reply_to_id to link replies; the full thread is not promised.
Price $0.56 per 1,000 requests ($0.000556 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.
AI prompt
Paste this into your AI assistant. It already holds this endpoint's parameters, response fields and an example request, so the assistant can ask what you need and then write the scraper.
Please help me write a data collection script with the EveryInfra YouTube Comments endpoint (youtube/comments).
Endpoint contract:
- Request: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with the header Authorization: Bearer <API key>. Read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable and never hard-code it.
- In the request body, set platform to youtube and action to comments, and put the parameters inside params.
- Required parameters:
- url: The target URL required by YouTube actions. Use full channel URLs for profile and user_posts, or specific watch?v= and share links for video, comments, and transcript.
- Optional parameters:
- since: The lower date bound for filtering channel videos, Shorts, or comments. It applies to those lists only.
- sort: The sort order applied across YouTube actions. For search, accepted values are relevance, newest, most_viewed, and top_rated. For channel videos and Shorts, accepted values are newest, oldest, and popular. (allowed: newest / popular)
- limit: The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 100. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. (default: 20)
- Returns a list of records. Main fields of each record: id, text, author_name, like_count, reply_count, posted_at, is_reply, reply_to_id.
- Example request body:
{
"platform": "youtube",
"action": "comments",
"params": {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
}
}
- Price: $0.56 per 1,000 requests; failed and empty results are not charged.
- For dozens or hundreds of targets, add "mode": "async" to the body: you get a job_id at once and poll GET https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/jobs/{job_id} for the result.
- On 422, fix the request using the suggested parameter names and allowed values in the error; on 429 or 503, wait for Retry-After and try again.
Before writing code, ask me which targets I need, how many, which fields, and what output format I want; then confirm the plan and the rough cost with me.Request parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Authorization | header | string | Yes | - | Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository. |
platform | body | string | Yes | youtube | Platform identifier, fixed value. |
action | body | string | Yes | comments | Capability identifier, fixed value. |
url | body.params | Not declared | Yes | - | The target URL required by YouTube actions. Use full channel URLs for profile and user_posts, or specific watch?v= and share links for video, comments, and transcript. Channel metadata is derived from published content, and comments does not return channel community board posts. |
since | body.params | Not declared | No | - | The lower date bound for filtering channel videos, Shorts, or comments. It applies to those lists only. |
sort | body.params | enum | No | - | The sort order applied across YouTube actions. For search, accepted values are relevance, newest, most_viewed, and top_rated. For channel videos and Shorts, accepted values are newest, oldest, and popular. For comments, accepted values are newest and popular. Specifying this parameter on a single-video query does not filter that video's content.Allowed valuesnewestpopular |
limit | body.params | integer (1–100) | No | 20 | The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 100. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. |
Code samples
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"platform": "youtube",
"action": "comments",
"params": {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
}
}'[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.
Response example
There is no real sample for these example parameters yet: this shows the response shape and fields from the contract, with … as placeholders. It is not the result of a real call.
{
"id": "req_…",
"platform": "youtube",
"action": "comments",
"results": [
{
"id": …,
"text": …,
"author_name": …,
"like_count": …,
"reply_count": …,
"posted_at": …,
"is_reply": …,
"reply_to_id": …,
"platform": …
}
],
"count": …,
"billing": {
"charged": …,
"charged_usd": …,
"balance_after_usd": …,
…
},
"quota": { … }
}Response fields
Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the platform does not show are never made up.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
id | The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms. |
text | Body text with HTML removed, returned in full and never cut short (on a few platforms the list results themselves carry only an excerpt; the platform's field notes say so). |
author_name | Author's display name. |
like_count | Likes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0. |
reply_count | Replies, usually replies to a comment. null means not disclosed. |
posted_at | Publish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it. |
is_reply | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
reply_to_id | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |
Errors and billing
- 401
- Missing or invalid key. Authentication runs before parameter checks, so unauthenticated requests never see the parameter schema.
- 422
- Wrong parameter name or value. The error lists the parameters and allowed values this capability accepts and the closest match; it happens before any charge.
- 402
- Insufficient balance. Top up first.
- 429
- The account's per-minute request limit was reached (all of its API keys count together; a key's own lower limit applies first). Wait for Retry-After and try again; a rate package in the console raises the limit.
- 503
- Could not complete right now. Any charge for the call goes back to your balance automatically, and the billing receipt in the response states the actual outcome, including when it is not yet known. Do not resend blindly.
- 200 empty
- The request completed without data and is not charged (billing.reason = empty_result_refunded).