Get comments on a video that have been loved by the video creator

[Benjamin-Loison]

Asked on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/q/71186488

Are such comments pinned? That way when see first level comment that isn't meeting the criteria we can stop our search?

• No, hearted comments aren't pinned.

[Benjamin-Loison]

As I have more experience now, this feature should be doable.

[Benjamin-Loison]

Could clean this endpoint but it is now working which is the most important point. Items to improve are notably:

• [x] snippet/topLevelComment/snippet not making sense when scraping answers (should see how CommentThreads: list does)
• [x] resultsPerPage is incorrect when scraping answers (should be 10)
• [X] totalResults isn't available when using pageToken - only first relevance results contains the totalResults, not even time or following results of relevance neither time contain the totalResults
• [ ] #52

[Benjamin-Loison]

Used following Python script to verify the correctness of this endpoint for the 593 claimed comments, with:

• order=time we retrieve 592 comments
• order=relevance we retrieve 505 comments

import requests, json

VIDEO_ID = 'nxaNgiu3ob0'
ORDER = 'time'

commentIds = set()

commonUrl = f'https://localhost/YouTube-operational-API/commentThreads?part=snippet,replies&videoId={VIDEO_ID}&order={ORDER}'

pageToken = ''
while True:
    url = commonUrl
    if pageToken != '':
        url += f'&pageToken={pageToken}'
    content = requests.get(url, verify=False).text
    data = json.loads(content)
    for item in data['items']:
        commentIds.add(item['id'])
        repliesPageToken = item['snippet']['topLevelComment']['snippet']['nextPageToken']
        while repliesPageToken != '':
            repliesUrl = commonUrl + f'&pageToken={repliesPageToken}'
            repliesContent = requests.get(repliesUrl, verify=False).text
            repliesData = json.loads(repliesContent)
            for item in repliesData['items']:
                commentIds.add(item['id'])
            print(len(commentIds))
            if 'nextPageToken' in repliesData:
                repliesPageToken = repliesData['nextPageToken']
            else:
                break
    print(len(commentIds))
    if 'nextPageToken' in data:
        pageToken = data['nextPageToken']
    else:
        break

print(len(commentIds))