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YouTube Comments API

Use a simple API to extract YouTube comments with sentiment, timestamps, and author metadata.

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https://api.socialkit.dev/youtube/comments?url=youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
AI Summary
+transcript

Video discusses upcoming social media trends including AI-generated content...

• Full transcript available
Engagement
+15 metrics
94%
Rate
8.2
Score
• Views, likes, comments...
Topics
+keywords
AI ContentTrendsMarketing...
• Sentiment, entities...
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3 Simple Steps to Analyze Social Media Videos

Start extracting insights from Social Media Videos in minutes, and save days of development.

01

Get Your Access Key

Sign up and get your API key instantly - no sales calls, no complex onboarding.

02

Send Your First Request

Call our Social Media API with any YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram URL.

03

Extract Insights at Scale

Get video summaries, transcripts, engagement metrics, and more.

Integrate with Your Favorite No-Code Platform

Use Zapier, Make, n8n or any other no-code platform using our native connection or by using the access token.

Popular Use Cases

See how teams are using this API in production

Sentiment Analysis

Analyze audience sentiment and feedback at scale. Understand how viewers react to your content and identify common themes.

Brands analyze comments on product launch videos to gauge reception, identify common concerns, and find testimonials for marketing.

User Feedback Collection

Extract feature requests, bug reports, and suggestions from video comments. Turn unstructured feedback into actionable product insights.

SaaS companies mine tutorial video comments for feature requests and pain points, prioritizing their product roadmap based on real user needs.

Community Management

Monitor comments for questions, spam, and moderation needs. Automate responses and flag content requiring attention.

Creator teams use automation to flag toxic comments, identify unanswered questions, and send notifications for engagement opportunities.

Competitive Intelligence

Analyze competitor video comments to understand audience pain points, questions, and unmet needs in your market.

Product teams read comments on competitor demos, identifying features users request that aren't available, finding product differentiation opportunities.

API Response Format

Clean, structured JSON that's easy to parse and integrate

Request

GET
GET https://api.socialkit.dev/youtube/comments?access_key=<your-access-key>&url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&limit=2

Response

JSON
{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "comments": [
      {
        "author": "@YouTube",
        "text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
        "likes": 88,
        "date": "",
        "replyCount": 1,
        "position": 1
      }
    ]
  }
}

Common Workflows

Integrate with your existing tools and platforms

Sentiment Dashboard

Track comment sentiment trends and visualize audience feedback.

OpenAIPythonPlotlyPostgreSQLStreamlit

Moderation Bot

Auto-moderate comments and alert teams to issues.

Node.jsDiscordSlackRedisPerspective API

Feedback Analyzer

Extract and categorize user feedback from comments.

AirtableMakeOpenAINotionGoogle Sheets

6 Ways to Use YouTube Comments API

Analyze community feedback, power moderation, and extract insights from YouTube comments at scale.

Author & Thread Metadata

Retrieve author details, comment IDs, parent relationships, and full threading for context-aware analysis.

Timestamps & Ordering

Access precise published/updated times and sort or page through comments reliably for large threads.

Structured Output

Receive normalized comment objects with text, metadata, and engagement counts for easy downstream processing.

Powerful Filtering

Filter by Hot or Top comments, or by new comments

Insight & Sentiment Ready

Plug comments into your NLP pipeline for sentiment, topic extraction, and trend analysis.

Moderation Signals

Identify spammy patterns, toxicity, or policy-violating content with metadata designed for trust & safety.

Our Social Media APIs

Comprehensive social media analysis APIs for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram content.

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AI-powered summaries from YouTube Shorts

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Extract comments from YouTube Shorts

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TikTok Stats API

Comprehensive TikTok video and creator analytics

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TikTok Comments API

Extract and analyze TikTok comments at scale

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AI-powered video summaries from TikTok URLs

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TikTok Transcript API

Extract accurate transcripts from TikTok videos

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TikTok Channel Stats API

Comprehensive TikTok channel analytics

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Instagram Stats API

Comprehensive Instagram video and reel analytics

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Instagram profile statistics and follower metrics

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AI-powered video summaries from Instagram URLs

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Instagram Transcript API

Extract accurate transcripts from Instagram videos

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Frequently Asked Questions

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https://api.socialkit.dev/youtube/comments?url=youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
AI Summary
+transcript

Video discusses upcoming social media trends including AI-generated content...

• Full transcript available
Engagement
+15 metrics
94%
Rate
8.2
Score
• Views, likes, comments...
Topics
+keywords
AI ContentTrendsMarketing...
• Sentiment, entities...