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Get YouTube video comments

TikHub tool tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-video-comments on looot: input fields, $0.001 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Returns top-level comments on a YouTube video. Send video_id, with optional sort_by (top or newest), language_code, country_code, need_format, and continuation_token for the next page. Returns comments with text, likes, reply count, author and a token for fetching replies.

  • Tool id: tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-video-comments
  • Provider: TikHub
  • Job: Get video comments api youtube web v2 (api.youtube.web-v2.get-video-comments)
  • Price: $0.001 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name Type Required Description
continuation_token string no Pagination token
country_code string no Country code
language_code string no Language code
need_format boolean no Whether to clean and format the data
sort_by string no Comment sort order
video_id string yes Video ID

Output

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

{ code, data: { comments: { author: { ... }, content, comment_id, like_count, reply_count, reply_level, published_time, like_count_a11y, reply_count_a11y, reply_count_text, creator_thumbnail_url }[] }, docs, time, params: { video_id, language_code }, router, message, support, cache_url, time_zone, message_zh, request_id, time_stamp, cache_message, cache_message_zh }

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in 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:

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":"tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-video-comments","input":{"video_id":"<video_id>"},"wait":30}'
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: "tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-video-comments",
    input: {
      video_id: "<video_id>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
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": "tikhub-api-youtube-web-v2-get-video-comments",
        "input": {
            "video_id": "<video_id>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:api.youtube.web-v2.get-video-comments as endpointId; see the job page.

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