YouTube video comments

Fetch top-level comments for a YouTube video using the public watch page and comments continuations.

POST /v1/youtube/video/comments

Request Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
pages	body	number	No	Number of comment pages to fetch (1-20).
url	body	string	No	Alias for video_url.
video_id	body	string	No	YouTube video ID.
video_url	body	string	No	YouTube video URL, short URL, or shorts URL.

Response Structure

Async kickoff response

Polled run result response

Sync response

Declared output schema

Code Examples

Async + polling

RUN=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.browsable.app/v1/youtube/video/comments" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"pages":1,"url":"https://example.com/item-1","video_id":"id-1","video_url":"https://example.com/item-1"}')

RUN_ID=$(echo "$RUN" | jq -r '.run_id')

while true; do
  RESULT=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" "https://api.browsable.app/v1/runs/$RUN_ID")
  STATUS=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.run_status')
  if [ "$STATUS" = "succeeded" ] || [ "$STATUS" = "failed" ]; then
    echo "$RESULT"
    break
  fi
  sleep 2
done

Sync

curl -X POST "https://api.browsable.app/v1/youtube/video/comments" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"pages":1,"url":"https://example.com/item-1","video_id":"id-1","video_url":"https://example.com/item-1","_run":{"async":false}}'