YouTube Channel Community API
YouTube community posts API — polls, images, and text posts with engagement data. Community sentiment analysis from $0.01/call.
Fetch community tab posts from a YouTube channel. Returns post content, like counts, and supports pagination for channels with many posts.
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{
"ok": true,
"data": {
"meta": {
"channelId": "..."
},
"data": [
{
"postId": "...",
"contentText": "...",
"likeCount": 1234
}
],
"continuation": "..."
}
}Features
Send a channel ID to /v1/youtube/channel-community to fetch the channel's community-tab posts, each with its postId and contentText.
Each post carries a likeCount (e.g. 1234), letting you rank community posts by how the audience responded.
Use the continuation token to page through channels with long community-post histories.
Returns the full range of community formats — text updates, image posts, and polls — that creators publish to their community tab.
Use cases
Community Engagement
Monitor community posts and engagement to understand how creators interact with their audience.
Sentiment Analysis
Analyze community post content and engagement for audience sentiment tracking.
Content Research
Study community posts to understand what topics and formats drive engagement.
Quick start
Copy this snippet and start making calls.
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/youtube/channel-community', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"id": "UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug"
}),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);The YouTube Channel Community API — the community tab as data
The YouTube Channel Community API returns a channel's community-tab posts — the text updates, images, and polls creators publish between videos. Send a channel ID to /v1/youtube/channel-community and get a data array where each post has a postId, contentText, and likeCount (e.g. 1234), plus a continuation token to page through their history.
At $0.01 per call it opens a side of creator activity the video endpoints miss entirely. It's the source for community-engagement analysis, sentiment tracking, and understanding how creators talk to their audience off-video.
What is a YouTube Channel Community API?
A YouTube Channel Community API returns the posts from a channel's community tab — the feed of text updates, image posts, and polls that creators share between uploads — as structured JSON. For a channel ID you get a data array where each post carries a postId, contentText, and likeCount, with a continuation token for the full history. This is content that lives entirely outside the video catalog: announcements, behind-the-scenes notes, audience questions, and polls. The community tab is where many creators do their most direct audience interaction, which makes this endpoint the way to study that relationship programmatically.
Build your own community-engagement tracker
Pull a creator's community posts and rank them by likeCount to see which off-video updates resonate most — often a clearer signal of audience connection than view counts. Run contentText through sentiment analysis to track how a creator's tone and their audience's reaction shift over time. Studying what drives engagement? Compare poll posts versus image posts versus text to learn which formats the audience rewards. Pair each postId with the Post Comments endpoint to read the full discussion under a post, turning the community tab into a rich engagement dataset.
YouTube Channel Community API pricing — $0.01/call
Each page of community posts costs $0.01 and returns a batch with a continuation token. There's no daily quota. Tracking the community activity of several creators daily is a few cents. The official Data API has no community-tab endpoint at all, so this is the only practical way to read that content programmatically — a flat cent per page for a data source the official API simply doesn't expose.
Channel Community vs. Post vs. Post Comments
Three endpoints cover community content at different depths. Channel Community lists a channel's posts. The Post endpoint returns full detail for one post by ID, including reply count. Post Comments returns the comment thread under a post. The flow is list, detail, discuss: enumerate posts with Channel Community, drill into one with Post, and read its conversation with Post Comments — all composable on a single YepAPI key for complete community analysis.
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Sign up for $5 in free credit, no card required — 500 pages. Pull a creator's community posts and inspect the content and like counts to see how they engage their audience off-video before you build.
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Frequently asked questions
Fetch community tab posts from a YouTube channel. Returns post content, like counts, and supports pagination for channels with many posts.
Each API call costs $0.01. No monthly minimums or subscriptions — you only pay for what you use.
Sign up for a free API key, then send a POST request to /v1/youtube/channel-community. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.
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