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title: "Scrape Creators API / Comments"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-youtube-video-comments on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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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.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-youtube-video-comments`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [Read the comments on a YouTube video](/reference/jobs/youtube-video-comments) (`youtube.video.comments`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `continuationToken` | string | no |   |
| `order` | string | no | Example: "top" |
| `url` | string | yes | Example: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, the expected shape, not yet checked against real answers:

```txt
{ success, comments: { id, author: { name, avatarUrl, channelId, isCreator, channelUrl, isVerified }, content, engagement: { likes, replies }, replyLevel, publishedTime, publishedTimeText }[], credits_charged, credits_remaining }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"scrapecreators-youtube-video-comments","input":{"url":"<url>","order":"top","continuationToken":"<continuationToken>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "scrapecreators-youtube-video-comments",
    input: {
      url: "<url>",
      order: "top",
      continuationToken: "<continuationToken>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "scrapecreators-youtube-video-comments",
        "input": {
            "url": "<url>",
            "order": "top",
            "continuationToken": "<continuationToken>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:youtube.video.comments` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/youtube-video-comments).