List a channel's community posts

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Read one page of a channel's Posts tab: post ID and URL, channel, text, attached images, like count, relative publish time with its computed timestamp and the attached video when the post links one, with a continuation token when more exist.

GET/v1/youtube/channel/community-postsx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

channelIdstringquery

YouTube channel ID (UC…) of the channel; exactly one of channelId, handle or url identifies the channel on the first page.

handlestringquery

Channel handle with or without @.

max 64 chars

ExampleExampleChannel

urlstringquery

Channel URL (youtube.com/@handle, /channel/UC…, /user/name, /c/name or a legacy youtube.com/name link).

max 2048 chars

continuationTokenstringquery

YouTube's own continuation token for the next page, or null at the end. Pass it back unchanged as continuationToken; tokens are caller-carried and never stored.

Response fields

requestIdstring

Operation identifier for correlation.

Upstream HTTP attempts, decoded bytes and duration.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data was returned; inspect status and coverage.

statusenum

success, partial (coverage.warnings names the omission), failed or challenged.

one of: success, partial

Posts in tab order: id, url, channel {id, title, url, handle}, content (full text), image (the single attached image, null for multi-image or text posts), images (every attached image at its largest size), likeCountText, likeCount, publishedTimeText, publishedTime (computed timestamp or null) and video {id, title, thumbnail, url, viewCountText, viewCountInt, publishedTimeText, lengthText, lengthSeconds} or null. Polls are returned as text posts without choices.

up to 100 items

posts.idstring

Always included.

posts.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

Always included.

posts.channel.idstringnullable

Always included.

posts.channel.titlestringnullable

Always included.

posts.channel.urlstringnullable

Always included.

posts.channel.handlestringnullable

Always included.

posts.contentstringnullable

Always included.

posts.imagestringnullable

Always included.

posts.imagesstring[]

Always included.

up to 50 items

posts.likeCountTextstringnullable

Always included.

posts.likeCountintegernullable

Always included.

posts.publishedTimeTextstringnullable

Always included.

posts.publishedTimestringnullable

Always included.

posts.video.idstring

Always included.

posts.video.titlestringnullable

Always included.

posts.video.thumbnailstringnullable

Always included.

posts.video.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

posts.video.viewCountTextstringnullable

Always included.

posts.video.viewCountIntintegernullable

Always included.

posts.video.publishedTimeTextstringnullable

Always included.

posts.video.lengthTextstringnullable

Always included.

posts.video.lengthSecondsintegernullable

Always included.

continuationTokenstringnullable

YouTube's own continuation token for the next page, or null at the end. Pass it back unchanged as continuationToken; tokens are caller-carried and never stored.

sourceUrlstring

Public YouTube URL the operation represents (page or API route).

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

source is public_api: the first page is the Posts tab's browse document (after resolving a handle or URL to the channel ID) and continuations post the token to the same route; no warnings are defined for this operation.

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: public_page, public_api

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Always included.

up to 8 items

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, malformed, duplicate or conflicting parameters, unsupported parameters or an unsafe URL.
400	`invalid_continuation`	YouTube rejected the supplied continuation token.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
403	`restricted_page`	The channel, video, playlist or post is terminated, private, members-only or otherwise unavailable.
403	`age_restricted`	The video is age restricted and cannot be read logged out.
404	`not_found`	YouTube reports no channel, video, playlist or post for the identifier.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	YouTube rate limited the request; no automatic retry.
502	`upstream_challenged`	YouTube rejected or challenged the request.
502	`unsupported_page`	The response lacks the embedded data, the data is malformed, or the resolved identity does not match the request.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	The response exceeded byte, depth or node limits.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	The bounded request could not complete.
503	`busy`	All worker slots are in use.
504	`timeout`	The total retrieval deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts?handle=ExampleChannel" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts?handle=ExampleChannel",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts?handle=ExampleChannel",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`YouTube request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "ExampleChannel"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts?handle=ExampleChannel", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts?handle=ExampleChannel"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000015",
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": "Ugsynthetic000000000000000post",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugsynthetic000000000000000post",
      "channel": {
        "id": "UCsynthetic0000000000001",
        "title": "Example Channel",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@ExampleChannel",
        "handle": "ExampleChannel"
      },
      "content": "New video is live",
      "image": "https://yt3.example.test/post-image=s640-c-fcrop64",
      "images": [
        "https://yt3.example.test/post-image=s640-c-fcrop64"
      ],
      "likeCountText": "250K",
      "likeCount": 250000,
      "publishedTimeText": "2 days ago",
      "publishedTime": "2026-09-10T12:00:00.000Z",
      "video": null
    },
    {
      "id": "Ugsynthetic000000000000000post2",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugsynthetic000000000000000post2",
      "channel": {
        "id": "UCsynthetic0000000000001",
        "title": "Example Channel",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@ExampleChannel",
        "handle": "ExampleChannel"
      },
      "content": "Which one next?",
      "image": null,
      "images": [],
      "likeCountText": "12K",
      "likeCount": 12000,
      "publishedTimeText": "1 month ago",
      "publishedTime": "2026-08-12T12:00:00.000Z",
      "video": {
        "id": "Vid0000001a",
        "title": "Synthetic video one",
        "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vid0000001a/hq720.jpg?sqp=synthetic",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vid0000001a",
        "viewCountText": "10M views",
        "viewCountInt": 10000000,
        "publishedTimeText": "2 days ago",
        "lengthText": "18:42",
        "lengthSeconds": 1122
      }
    }
  ],
  "continuationToken": "4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnBzeW50aGV0aWM",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 240000,
    "durationMs": 600
  }
}

Missing, malformed, duplicate or conflicting parameters, unsupported parameters or an unsafe URL. YouTube rejected the supplied continuation token.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}