YouTube Post Comments API
YouTube post comments API — comments and replies on community posts with author info and likes. Audience insight and sentiment analysis from $0.01/call.
Fetch comments and replies on a YouTube community post. Sort by top or newest. Returns comment text, author info, like counts, and supports pagination.
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{
"ok": true,
"data": {
"data": [
{
"commentId": "...",
"authorText": "...",
"textDisplay": "...",
"likeCount": 42
}
],
"continuation": "..."
}
}Features
Send a community post ID to /v1/youtube/post-comments to fetch the comment thread under that post, returned as a data array.
Pass sort=top for the most-liked comments or sort=new for a chronological feed of the post's discussion.
Each comment carries commentId, authorText, textDisplay, and likeCount (e.g. 42), giving you who said what and how it landed.
Use the continuation token to page through every comment on a post with a large discussion thread.
Use cases
Audience Insights
Analyze comments on community posts to understand audience opinions and feedback.
Sentiment Analysis
Run sentiment analysis on post comments to gauge community reactions.
Engagement Tracking
Track comment volume and engagement on community posts over time.
Quick start
Copy this snippet and start making calls.
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/youtube/post-comments', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"id": "UgkxMy8D54...",
"sort": "top"
}),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);The YouTube Post Comments API — discussion under community posts
The YouTube Post Comments API returns the comment thread beneath a community post. Send a post ID and sort (top or newest) to /v1/youtube/post-comments and get a data array of comments — each with commentId, authorText, textDisplay, and likeCount — plus a continuation token for paging. It reads the conversation a community post sparks.
At $0.01 per call it extends sentiment and engagement analysis to the community tab, not just videos. Where the video Comments endpoint reads discussion under videos, this reads discussion under posts — the other half of a creator's public conversation.
What is a YouTube Post Comments API?
A YouTube Post Comments API returns the comments left on a community post, as structured JSON. You send a post ID and a sort order (top or newest) and receive a data array where each comment has a commentId, authorText, textDisplay, and likeCount, with a continuation token to page through the thread. Community posts — the text, image, and poll updates on a channel's community tab — generate their own discussions, separate from video comments. This endpoint reads those discussions, making it the community-tab counterpart to the video Comments endpoint: same comment shape, different source object.
Build your own community-sentiment tool
When a creator posts a poll or announcement, pull the post's comments and run sentiment analysis on textDisplay to gauge how the audience reacted — weight by likeCount to find the opinions the community endorsed. Track comment volume on a post over time to measure how a community update lands versus a regular video. Mine top comments under community posts for recurring questions and ideas, just as you would video comments. Pair with the Post endpoint to combine the post's own reply count and content with the actual comment text underneath for a complete view.
YouTube Post Comments API pricing — $0.01/call
Each page of post comments costs $0.01 and returns a batch plus a continuation token. There's no daily quota, so paginating an active post's full discussion is just a few cents. The official Data API has no community-post comments endpoint, so this is the only programmatic route to that conversation — a flat cent per page for discussion data the official API doesn't expose.
Post Comments vs. video Comments — one conversation surface
These two endpoints together cover a creator's entire public discussion. The video Comments endpoint reads comments under videos; Post Comments reads comments under community posts. Both return the same author/text/like shape with the same top-or-newest sort, so one sentiment pipeline can ingest both with no extra parsing. Running them in tandem gives a complete picture of audience reaction across a creator's videos and community updates alike, all on one YepAPI key.
Try the YouTube Post Comments API free
Sign up for $5 in free credit, no card required — 500 comment pages. Pull the discussion under a community post with top and newest sorting to test it before adding the community tab to your sentiment pipeline.
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Frequently asked questions
Fetch comments and replies on a YouTube community post. Sort by top or newest. Returns comment text, author info, like counts, and supports pagination.
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/post-comments. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.
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