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Test Crawlora's Retrieve video comments (top-level & replies) API with realistic prefilled parameters. Generate a cURL request, inspect the expected structured JSON response, and open the full docs or pricing page when you are ready to integrate this public web data extraction endpoint into your application.

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /youtube/comments/{id}
Platform: YouTube
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 5 credits/request
Required params: id
Common optional params: continuation_token

Retrieve video comments (top-level & replies) API documentation YouTube platform page Crawlora API pricing Try YouTube Captions API Try Retrieve the playlists tab for a YouTube channel API Try Search within a YouTube channel API Try Retrieve the shorts tab for a YouTube channel API Try YouTube Channel Videos API

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/comments/<id>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
id (path)	string	Yes		YouTube video ID (11-character code)
continuation_token	string	No		Pagination token returned by a previous request, first page if empty

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "comments": [
      {
        "comment_id": "UgzjL_eQm9EVQN5n9Ex4AaABAg",
        "content": "This is OpenAI's daily reminder to NOT PUT ADS ON CHATGPT!!!",
        "channel_id": "UC1VvgrsdOvQoQvXixTe9Y3Q",
        "user_name": "@hudsonsknexproductions",
        "published_time": "2025-07-02T17:13:47.01045379Z",
        "reply_count": 7
      }
    ],
    "continuation_token": "Eg0SC2F0WHlYUDN5WVo0GAYy0AIKpgJnZXRfcmFua2VkX3N0cmVhbXMtLUNxVUJDSUFFRlJlMzBUZ2FtZ0VLbFFFSTJGOFFnQVFZQnlLS0Fac1VKOWstb2JpbmtlTGExaFI3aEhFV..."
  }
}

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GETapiKey5 credits/requestyoutube.commentsResponseDocYouTube

GET /youtube/comments/{id}

Retrieve video comments (top-level & replies)

Returns a page of comments for a specific YouTube video.

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Path parameters

requiredstring

YouTube video ID (11-character code)

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "comments": [
      {
        "comment_id": "UgzjL_eQm9EVQN5n9Ex4AaABAg",
        "content": "This is OpenAI's daily reminder to NOT PUT ADS ON CHATGPT!!!",
        "channel_id": "UC1VvgrsdOvQoQvXixTe9Y3Q",
        "user_name": "@hudsonsknexproductions",
        "published_time": "2025-07-02T17:13:47.01045379Z",
        "reply_count": 7
      }
    ],
    "continuation_token": "Eg0SC2F0WHlYUDN5WVo0GAYy0AIKpgJnZXRfcmFua2VkX3N0cmVhbXMtLUNxVUJDSUFFRlJlMzBUZ2FtZ0VLbFFFSTJGOFFnQVFZQnlLS0Fac1VKOWstb2JpbmtlTGExaFI3aEhFV..."
  }
}

Endpoint details

Returns a page of comments for a specific YouTube video.

Method: GET
Path: /youtube/comments/{id}
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 5 credits/request
Platform: YouTube
Parameters: 3 documented fields

Request parameters

id:pathcontinuation_token:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

codedatadata.commentsdata.comments[].channel_iddata.comments[].comment_iddata.comments[].contentdata.comments[].continuation_tokendata.comments[].likes_countdata.comments[].published_timedata.comments[].reply_countdata.comments[].user_namedata.continuation_token

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "comments": [
      {
        "comment_id": "UgzjL_eQm9EVQN5n9Ex4AaABAg",
        "content": "This is OpenAI's daily reminder to NOT PUT ADS ON CHATGPT!!!",
        "channel_id": "UC1VvgrsdOvQoQvXixTe9Y3Q",
        "user_name": "@hudsonsknexproductions",
        "published_time": "2025-07-02T17:13:47.01045379Z",
        "reply_count": 7
      }
    ],
    "continuation_token": "Eg0SC2F0WHlYUDN5WVo0GAYy0AIKpgJnZXRfcmFua2VkX3N0cmVhbXMtLUNxVUJDSUFFRlJlMzBUZ2FtZ0VLbFFFSTJGOFFnQVFZQnlLS0Fac1VKOWstb2JpbmtlTGExaFI3aEhFV..."
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/comments/<id>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
id (path)	string	Yes		YouTube video ID (11-character code)
continuation_token	string	No		Pagination token returned by a previous request, first page if empty

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "comments": [
      {
        "comment_id": "UgzjL_eQm9EVQN5n9Ex4AaABAg",
        "content": "This is OpenAI's daily reminder to NOT PUT ADS ON CHATGPT!!!",
        "channel_id": "UC1VvgrsdOvQoQvXixTe9Y3Q",
        "user_name": "@hudsonsknexproductions",
        "published_time": "2025-07-02T17:13:47.01045379Z",
        "reply_count": 7
      }
    ],
    "continuation_token": "Eg0SC2F0WHlYUDN5WVo0GAYy0AIKpgJnZXRfcmFua2VkX3N0cmVhbXMtLUNxVUJDSUFFRlJlMzBUZ2FtZ0VLbFFFSTJGOFFnQVFZQnlLS0Fac1VKOWstb2JpbmtlTGExaFI3aEhFV..."
  }
}

{ "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "comments": [ { "comment_id": "UgzjL_eQm9EVQN5n9Ex4AaABAg", "content": "This is OpenAI's daily reminder to NOT PUT ADS ON CHATGPT!!!", "channel_id": "UC1VvgrsdOvQoQvXixTe9Y3Q", "user_name": "@hudsonsknexproductions", "published_time": "2025-07-02T17:13:47.01045379Z", "reply_count": 7 } ], "continuation_token": "Eg0SC2F0WHlYUDN5WVo0GAYy0AIKpgJnZXRfcmFua2VkX3N0cmVhbXMtLUNxVUJDSUFFRlJlMzBUZ2FtZ0VLbFFFSTJGOFFnQVFZQnlLS0Fac1VKOWstb2JpbmtlTGExaFI3aEhFV..." } }

Endpoint details

Returns a page of comments for a specific YouTube video.

Method: GET
Path: /youtube/comments/{id}
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 5 credits/request
Platform: YouTube
Parameters: 3 documented fields

Request parameters

id:pathcontinuation_token:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "comments": [
      {
        "comment_id": "UgzjL_eQm9EVQN5n9Ex4AaABAg",
        "content": "This is OpenAI's daily reminder to NOT PUT ADS ON CHATGPT!!!",
        "channel_id": "UC1VvgrsdOvQoQvXixTe9Y3Q",
        "user_name": "@hudsonsknexproductions",
        "published_time": "2025-07-02T17:13:47.01045379Z",
        "reply_count": 7
      }
    ],
    "continuation_token": "Eg0SC2F0WHlYUDN5WVo0GAYy0AIKpgJnZXRfcmFua2VkX3N0cmVhbXMtLUNxVUJDSUFFRlJlMzBUZ2FtZ0VLbFFFSTJGOFFnQVFZQnlLS0Fac1VKOWstb2JpbmtlTGExaFI3aEhFV..."
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/comments/<id>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"