List a video's comments

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Read one page (20) of a video's top-level comments through the public comments continuation: text, author (name, channel ID, verified and creator flags, avatar, channel URL), relative publish time with its computed timestamp, like and reply counts, and a repliesContinuationToken for the replies operation. order=top (default) or newest; pass continuationToken for further pages.

GET/v1/youtube/video/commentsx-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

YouTube video or Short URL (youtube.com/watch?v=…, youtu.be/…, /shorts/…, /embed/…, /live/…; www, m and music subdomains) or a bare 11-character video ID.

max 2048 chars

Examplehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vid0000001a

continuationTokenstringquery

Continuation token from a previous comments response. Response: Token for the next comments page or null.

orderenumquery

top (default) or newest; ignored with a continuation token.

one of: top, newest

Exampletop

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

Comments in YouTube's order: id, content, publishedTimeText, publishedTime, replyLevel (0), author {name with @, channelId, isVerified, isCreator, avatarUrl, channelUrl}, engagement {likes parsed from the displayed count, replies from the reply button} and repliesContinuationToken when the comment has replies.

up to 100 items

comments.idstring

Always included.

min 1 chars

comments.contentstring

Always included.

comments.publishedTimeTextstringnullable

Always included.

comments.publishedTimestringnullable

Always included.

comments.replyLevelinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

Always included.

comments.author.namestringnullable

Always included.

comments.author.channelIdstringnullable

Always included.

comments.author.isVerifiedboolean

Always included.

comments.author.isCreatorboolean

Always included.

comments.author.avatarUrlstringnullable

Always included.

comments.author.channelUrlstringnullable

Always included.

comments.engagement.likesintegernullable

Always included.

comments.engagement.repliesintegernullable

Always included.

comments.repliesContinuationTokenstringoptional

Optional.

continuationTokenstringnullable

Continuation token from a previous comments response. Response: Token for the next comments page or null.

sourceUrlstring

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

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

source is public_api; 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/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVid0000001a&order=top" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/youtube/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVid0000001a&order=top",
  {
    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/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVid0000001a&order=top",
  {
    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/video/comments",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vid0000001a",
        "order": "top"
    },
    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/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVid0000001a&order=top", 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/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVid0000001a&order=top"))
            .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": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000022",
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "UgSynthetic00000000AaABAg",
      "content": "Synthetic top comment",
      "publishedTimeText": "1 year ago",
      "publishedTime": "2025-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
      "replyLevel": 0,
      "author": {
        "name": "@ExampleViewer",
        "channelId": "UCsynthetic0000000000003",
        "isVerified": false,
        "isCreator": false,
        "avatarUrl": "https://yt3.example.test/viewer=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
        "channelUrl": "https://youtube.com/@ExampleViewer"
      },
      "engagement": {
        "likes": 314000,
        "replies": 963
      },
      "repliesContinuationToken": "Eg0SC1ZpZDAwMDAwMDFhYRgGMkVzeW50aGV0aWNfY29udGludWF0aW9u"
    },
    {
      "id": "UgSynthetic00000001AaABAg",
      "content": "Another synthetic comment",
      "publishedTimeText": "2 months ago",
      "publishedTime": "2026-07-12T12:00:00.000Z",
      "replyLevel": 0,
      "author": {
        "name": "@ExampleViewer",
        "channelId": "UCsynthetic0000000000003",
        "isVerified": false,
        "isCreator": false,
        "avatarUrl": "https://yt3.example.test/viewer=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
        "channelUrl": "https://youtube.com/@ExampleViewer"
      },
      "engagement": {
        "likes": 225,
        "replies": 0
      }
    }
  ],
  "continuationToken": "Eg0SC1ZpZDAwMDAwMDFhYRgGMkVzeW50aGV0aWNfY29udGludWF0aW9u",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vid0000001a",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 33000,
    "durationMs": 500
  }
}

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."
  }
}