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YouTube Comments, Without the Quota Wall

Complete comment threads as typed JSON — no per-day quota math, no partial pulls.

Start for free7-day free trial · 1,000 credits · no credit card required
10,000units per day — the official API’s whole quota
100units burned by every commentThreads.list call
1 creditper page of up to 100 comments here, replies included

Why Teams Pick It

A Hundred Pulls, Then the Wall

The YouTube Data API v3 allocates 10,000 units per day per Google Cloud project, and a single commentThreads.list call costs 100 units. That leaves 100 comment-page pulls per day before the ceiling.

One Video, Two and a Half Days

A video with 5,000 comments holds 250 pages at 20 comments each — retrieving all of them costs 25,000 units, two and a half days of quota for a single video. Across 10 videos you’re planning in weeks, not hours.

A Reset That Ignores Your Schedule

Official quota returns at midnight Pacific. Hit the ceiling at 11pm and the pipeline idles for hours — the reset clock, not your deadline, decides when work resumes.

Workarounds That Age Badly

Cycling extra Google Cloud projects works until Google flags the pattern; key-reseller services put every key you own at risk. The root problem stays: the official API was built for display, not bulk reads.

No Daily Quota to Budget

Anysite doesn’t touch the YouTube Data API. It reads publicly visible comment data directly and returns typed JSON — credits reset monthly, and plans start at $30/month.

Reply Threads in the Same Response

Each page costs 1 credit and carries up to 100 comments with replies[] included — no separate call, no extra units. Every comment ships id, author, author_id, text, like_count, reply_count, and published_at.

How It Works

01 · Key

Take a Key, Skip the Console

Sign up and copy your token. There’s no OAuth flow, no Google Cloud project, no YouTube API key — every request authenticates with a single access-token header.

02 · Call

Post a Video ID

One POST to /api/youtube/video/comments with a video_id. Set count up to 100 comments per page and sort_order to “top” or “new” — the first page is back in one round trip.

POST /api/youtube/video/comments · {"video_id": "…", "count": 100}

03 · Page

Follow the Cursor to the End

Every response carries has_more and next_cursor. Pass the cursor back until has_more turns false — reply threads ride along in the same pages, at no extra credits.

04 · Read

Load It Where You Work

The pages are typed JSON, so they drop straight into a CSV, a warehouse table, or your agent’s context — sentiment runs, audience research, training sets. Your tools do the analysis; Anysite is the data layer under them.

Copy, Paste, Pull the Thread

First Page in cURL
curl -X POST "https://api.anysite.io/api/youtube/video/comments" \
  -H "access-token: YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"video_id": "VIDEO_ID", "count": 100, "sort_order": "top"}'

One POST, up to 100 top comments back — token and video id are placeholders.

Every Page in Python
import requests

URL = "https://api.anysite.io/api/youtube/video/comments"
headers = {"access-token": "YOUR_TOKEN", "Content-Type": "application/json"}

comments, cursor = [], None
while True:
    payload = {"video_id": "VIDEO_ID", "count": 100, "sort_order": "top"}
    if cursor:
        payload["cursor"] = cursor
    data = requests.post(URL, headers=headers, json=payload).json()
    comments.extend(data["comments"])
    if not data.get("has_more"):
        break
    cursor = data["next_cursor"]

The cursor loop from the live docs, trimmed — runs until has_more turns false, 1 credit per page.

What Comes Back
{
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "UgxABC123_comment_xyz",
      "author": "username_display",
      "text": "The full comment text including line breaks.",
      "like_count": 142,
      "reply_count": 7,
      "published_at": "2024-11-15T09:33:00Z",
      "replies": [
        { "id": "UgxABC123_comment_xyz.reply1", "author": "another_user", "like_count": 12 }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "total_comments": 48291,
  "has_more": true,
  "next_cursor": "eyJwYWdlIjoyLCJ0b2tlbiI6Ii4uLiJ9"
}

Trimmed from the live sample response — author_id and reply text ship too; total_comments is the video’s full count.

Common Questions

The official quota is unit-based and resets daily at midnight Pacific: each comment list request costs 100 units of the 10,000 daily allotment, leaving 100 pulls per day. Anysite has no daily ceiling — plans are sized to a month of real work, from $30/month.

Read the Whole Comment Section

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