YouTube Comments

Fetches comments and replies from a YouTube video, including each comment's text content, author details, like count, reply count, and publish date.

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YouTube Comments
GET /v1/youtube/video/comments

Fetches comments and replies from a YouTube video, including each comment's text content, author details, like count, reply count, and publish date.

Authentication: x-api-key
Example URL: https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&order=top

Parameters:
- url (query · string · required) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
- continuationToken (query · string · optional) = 4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB
- order (query · string · optional) = top

Overview

WakeScrap exposes this YouTube endpoint as a live-data API. The platform keeps the documented request and response shape stable while unifying auth, request tracking, and credits billing.

Fetches comments and replies from a YouTube video, including each comment's text content, author details, like count, reply count, and publish date. Supports ordering by top or newest, and paginating with continuationToken. Limited to approximately 1,000 top comments or 7,000 newest comments.

Required params: url.

Headers

x-api-key string required

Your Wake API access key.

Example:

YOUR_API_KEY

Query Parameters

url string required

YouTube video URL

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

continuationToken string

Continuation token to get more comments. Get 'continuationToken' from previous response.

Example:

4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB

order string

Order of comments

Example:

top

enum: top, newest


              curl 'https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&order=top' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'


              const response = await fetch("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&order=top", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
  },
});

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


              import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&order=top",
    headers={
        "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Accept": "application/json",
    },
)

print(response.json())


              $ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&order=top",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
        'Accept: application/json',
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;


              client := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&order=top", nil)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")

resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))


              HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/youtube/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ&continuationToken=4qmFsgKrCBIYVUNkRkpXVWE0M3NtUm00SXBIQnB&order=top"))
    .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .header("Accept", "application/json")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();

HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

System.out.println(response.body());


              {
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "UgwVfRopfS2F-WB3aF14AaABAg",
      "content": "I love how in the middle he said \"I've been able to work with 2 great coaches... Pete and Coach Tomlin\"... Side shade to Coach Sean Payton, love it :)",
      "publishedTimeText": "9 days ago",
      "publishedTime": "2025-01-23T23:14:02.948Z",
      "replyLevel": 0,
      "author": {
        "name": "@SimonT80",
        "channelId": "UC8JC3uSUmmXTCTKl-bgr1DA",
        "isVerified": false,
        "isCreator": false,
        "avatarUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_lQ_2v9lDqwRrmdvEBfDNyFOvgQICl68X6WFkwZ5KI=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
        "channelUrl": "https://youtube.com/@SimonT80"
      },
      "engagement": {
        "likes": 110,
        "replies": 5
      },
      "repliesContinuationToken": "Eg0SC2RRdzR3OVdnWGNRGAYy1AEK..."
    }
  ],
  "continuationToken": "Eg0SCzVFV2F4bVd...."
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "One or more required parameters are missing or invalid."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "Invalid or missing x-api-key header."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "insufficient_credits",
    "message": "This request requires available credits before execution."
  }
}