Get a community post

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Read one public community post page: ID, channel, text, attached images, like count, relative publish time with its computed timestamp and the attached video when present. The page must describe the requested post; missing posts answer 404.

GET/v1/youtube/community-postx-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

urlstringrequiredquery

Community post URL (youtube.com/post/<id>, or a channel community tab link with lb=<id>) or a bare post ID.

max 2048 chars

Examplehttps://www.youtube.com/post/Ugsynthetic000000000000000post

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

idstring

Post ID.

id, title, url and handle of the posting channel.

channel.idstringnullable

Always included.

channel.titlestringnullable

Always included.

channel.urlstringnullable

Always included.

channel.handlestringnullable

Always included.

contentstringnullable

Full post text; null when empty.

imagesstring[]

Attached images at their largest size.

up to 50 items

likeCountintegernullable

Like count parsed from the displayed text.

publishedTimeTextstringnullable

Relative publish text ("5 days ago").

publishedTimestringnullable

Timestamp computed from the relative text, or null.

Attached video {id, title, thumbnail, url, viewCountText, viewCountInt, publishedTimeText, lengthText, lengthSeconds} or null.

video.idstring

Always included.

video.titlestringnullable

Always included.

video.thumbnailstringnullable

Always included.

video.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

video.viewCountTextstringnullable

Always included.

video.viewCountIntintegernullable

Always included.

video.publishedTimeTextstringnullable

Always included.

video.lengthTextstringnullable

Always included.

video.lengthSecondsintegernullable

Always included.

sourceUrlstring

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

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

source is public_page; no warnings are defined.

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/community-post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fpost%2FUgsynthetic000000000000000post" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/community-post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fpost%2FUgsynthetic000000000000000post",
  {
    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/community-post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fpost%2FUgsynthetic000000000000000post",
  {
    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/community-post",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugsynthetic000000000000000post"
    },
    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/community-post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fpost%2FUgsynthetic000000000000000post", 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/community-post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fpost%2FUgsynthetic000000000000000post"))
            .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": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000026",
  "id": "Ugsynthetic000000000000000post",
  "channel": {
    "id": "UCsynthetic0000000000001",
    "title": "Example Channel",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@ExampleChannel",
    "handle": "ExampleChannel"
  },
  "content": "How to build something meaningful\n\n1. sit down\n2. work",
  "images": [
    "https://yt3.example.test/post-image=s640-c-fcrop64"
  ],
  "likeCount": 759,
  "publishedTimeText": "5 days ago",
  "publishedTime": "2026-09-07T12:00:00.000Z",
  "video": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugsynthetic000000000000000post",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 230000,
    "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."
  }
}