I am trying to retrieve list of my own comments from my channel via YouTube API but can not find a way to do it. This is available via the history (https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history), but there is no mention in API documentation (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs).
Going through liked/disliked videos, then retrieving all video comments and searching for myself seems way too complicated, slow and will use too much quota.
Is there a better way to get own comments via the API?
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Using YouTube API V3 I have successfully identified the spam comments on my channel. The problem is using the delete API costs 50 credits which is alot given daily 10K credits only.
YouTube studio provides no way of deleting comments by ID and if I go to Settings -> Community -> Hidden users and add the spammy users to the list according to YouTube it will take a lot of days for the past comments to get removed. What to do, please help?
The 10k quota is for development use only YouTube expects you to request a quota extension if you need more quota then that. Fill out the form and request more.
YouTube API Services - Audit and Quota Extension Form
Should take a couple of weeks to get approved.
I would try out https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge. It is a tool that lets you filter and search for spammer comments on your channel and other's channel(s) in many different ways AND delete/report them all at once.
The tool has a full wiki to help you with using it.
Here is the creators video showing it off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vOakOgYLUI
Here is an LTT video showing how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM
I'm trying to retrieve the comments I've made on YouTube to turn them into Markdown files, but I can't find a way to do it filtering by user in the API documentation.
I thought it would be possible since the Google account has a link for it but when using the parameter "channelID" in the API to list comments as it says in the documentation, it gives back a 400 error.
You are looking for the comments your channel posted, however when using CommentThreads: list with channelId=YOUR_CHANNEL_ID you are listing comments people wrote on your channel, as described the documentation:
channelId
string
The channelId parameter instructs the API to return comment threads containing comments about the specified channel. (The response will not include comments left on videos that the channel uploaded.)
One more time YouTube Data API v3 AFAIK doesn't provide this basic feature.
You have two possibilities:
Use Google TakeOut (make sure to export Comments in YouTube and YouTube Music)
Web-scrap the webpage you provided
I'm looking to programmatically discover the YouTube Preferred channels (Examples: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w/channels?shelf_id=5204494150831773367&view=49 and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXBkrx5YWAe8I9nbmLK_fA/channels?) but the channel pages with their AJAX lists is all I've found. Obviously it would be much easier to crawl an API or an RSS feed (or even a static HTML page!) and I've yet to find anything like that with each of the YouTube Preferred channel ids.
Am I missing something? Do these preferred channel lists really only exist in this one form?
Edit #1: I have tried to use the YouTube Data API to pull these "Preferred" channels' playlists via /channel/lists, but both efforts were a bust as the /channel/list only returned the single top-level channel and the playlists were empty.
Edit #2: I tried the solution from this: Youtube api get the channels from the Featured channels module and it did not work (despite this question being tagged as a duplicate of it).
You can use the channelSections.list endpoint with the Google Preferred channel id (UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w), the preferred channel ids are in the contentDetails separated in 1% and 5% groups
Example: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.channelSections.list?part=contentDetails&channelId=UCiq_aAkP44mMpRx8VvQiF6w&_h=1&
Is there any YouTube API which enables external applications to search for keyword/brand name across all video comments on YouTube and send it back to some URL? Also, pull method is fine if the proposed push idea does not exist.
So I would like to know if my brand was mentioned in any video comment on YouTube, similar as what Twitter allows with User/Site Streams.
The YouTube API (v2.0) defines comments as a property of the video object. Details on this relationship here:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_comments?hl=en#Retrieve_comments
Therefore, in order to search every YouTube comment you would need to traverse the entire collection of videos. If you're going to attempt something like this, it makes sense to validate your concept by first focusing on the feeds or categories that are most relevant to your brand. Details on feed and categories here:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_video_feeds
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_category_keyword_browsing
No, there isn't anything like this available from the existing youtube api (neither V2 nor V3)
A long time ago, I developed a chrome extension that is able to scrobble the songs you listen to on youtube (via your last.fm account). What I did was simply taking the title of the video and assuming it had the proper format: "Artist - Track name" (obviously, I would send a request to last.fm, confirming it was a proper artist/song pair, before scrobbling). Recently (well, probably a couple of months ago) youtube started to provide artist and song information directly under the video (see image), and I was wondering how best to extract this information.
I was hoping to retrieve the information via the youtube feed api call (http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/videoID?alt=json), but it doesn't apear to be featured in the returned json element. Alternatly, I could try extracting it via xpath, but I figure that might lead to complications when no artist/song information is present. If anybody could help me extract this information, and thereby greatly improving my extension, I would be very grateful.
I don't think YouTube API can provide you with the artist name
as the videos can be other things that songs
you need to stick with what you have , unless they updated there API