raw.youtube.comments

YouTube video comments

LiveBeta

GEThttps://api.qovia.ai/v1/raw/youtube/comments

First-level comments of a video, top or newest first, about 20 a page: text, likes, reply count, time (UTC, converted from YouTube's "3 days ago" and as precise as the unit it names), whether the creator hearted it, and the commenter. Pass the previous page's cursor back to continue; stop when has_more is false. Replies come from raw.youtube.comment_replies with a comment's reply_cursor. A video without comments, or one that does not exist, answers empty and is not charged.

Typical uses: Review and comment analysis and social listening, e.g. finding what users praise and complain about most.

Price: $0.001 / call$1 per 1k · fixed price
Billing: Charged only for successful, non-empty resultsthe charge is in meta.charged_usd
Scope: raw:youtubeThe API key needs this scope
Rate limit: NoneNo per-account or per-endpoint request limit

Parameters

Sent as query parameters

Only these parameters are accepted; any other one returns 400.

video_idstringRequired

YouTube video ID

Pattern^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{11}$

ExampledQw4w9WgXcQ

sortstring · enum

Order: top (the default) or newest

DefaulttopOne oftop · newest

cursorstring

The cursor from the previous page's response; leave it out for the first page

Max 6000 charsPattern^[A-Za-z0-9_%=-]+$

curl 'https://api.qovia.ai/v1/raw/youtube/comments?video_id=dQw4w9WgXcQ' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QOVIA_KEY"

Replace $QOVIA_KEY with your API key

Example response200 OK

{
  "request_id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "cid": "UgzHP6__JvKiK1Cmha14AaABAg",
        "text": "Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=LTT and use my code LTT to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev.",
        "likes": 46,
        "reply_count": 4,
        "created_at": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+00:00",
        "liked_by_author": false,
        "author": {
          "uid_hash": "e91c380c4459",
          "nickname": "@LinusTechTips",
          "uid": "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw",
          "unique_id": "LinusTechTips"
        },
        "reply_cursor": "Eg0SC0xHQTRaRnItaGZvGAYygwEaUBIaVWd6SFA2X19KdktpSzFDbWhhMTRBYUFCQWciAggAKhhVQ1h1cVNCbEhBRTZYdy15"
      },
      {
        "cid": "UgxZuA2rLwz-KGgqs5R4AaABAg",
        "text": "THIS. This is what I want more of- TECH TIPS. This is a fun, informative video about technology. I would love to see more of these. Video idea- I would love to see an Nvidia App guide now that the Nvidia Control panel is going away. Most existing tutorials simply say \"configure this option this way\" but do not fully explain what the option means. I think LTT could do a good job of this.",
        "likes": 1600,
        "reply_count": 15,
        "created_at": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+00:00",
        "liked_by_author": true,
        "author": {
          "uid_hash": "5f0c2a9e41b7",
          "nickname": "@example.user.1",
          "uid": "UCexampleCommenter000001",
          "unique_id": "example.user.1"
        },
        "reply_cursor": "Eg0SC0xHQTRaRnItaGZvGAYygwEaUBIaVWd4WnVBMnJMd3otS0dncXM1UjRBYUFCQWciAggAKhhVQ1h1cVNCbEhBRTZYdy15"
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "Eg0SC0xHQTRaRnItaGZvGAYyjAMKzwJnZXRfcmFua2VkX3N0cmVhbXMtLUNxY0JDSUFFRlJl",
    "has_more": true,
    "prov": {
      "hash": "0x92bfddd95544b4bf",
      "ts": "2026-10-22T03:30:00+08:00",
      "source": "live"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "billed": true,
    "charged_usd": "0.001000",
    "balance_usd": "9.999000",
    "empty": false
  }
}

Catalog sample, not live data

Response

A success is HTTP 200 with the shared envelope: request_id, data (this endpoint's data, see the example) and meta (the charge). An empty result is also 200, with meta.empty true, not charged, and data may be an empty structure or null.

The response envelope in detail

Errors

Errors this endpoint can return
code	HTTP	Billing	Description
`scope_denied`	403	Not charged	This API key lacks the scope the endpoint requires.
`endpoint_unavailable`	503	Not charged	The endpoint is not available right now (no data source connected yet, or no price configured); nothing ran.
`invalid_params`	400	Not charged	The parameters failed validation: a required one is missing, a type or format is wrong, an array has more items than allowed, an unknown one was sent, or the POST body is not a JSON object. An error in one parameter starts with its name (`item_id: …`); a missing or unknown parameter starts with `params: …`.
`insufficient_balance`	402	Not charged	The balance cannot pay for this call; top up first.
`upstream_busy`Retryable	503	Refunded	The data source is busy or cooling down; refunded. Retry after `Retry-After`.
`upstream_timeout`	504	Refunded	The data source timed out; refunded.
`upstream_error`	502 / 503	Refunded	The data source failed; refunded.
`upstream_rejected`	400	Refunded	The data source rejected these parameters (well-formed, but not accepted); refunded.
`not_found`	404	Refunded	The data source has no such item (deleted, or the ID does not exist); refunded.
`reservation_expired`	504	Refunded	The call took too long and was refunded automatically; no data is returned.

Any request can also fail authentication: 401 invalid_api_key, 403 account_disabled, 429 too_many_auth_failures.

Every error code

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Response

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