Data API

YouTube Data API

Videos, channels, playlists, comments and search from YouTube.

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{

"video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",

"comments": [

{

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"text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",

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"text": "who came here saying this video was taken down",

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"text": "They found a new way to Rick Roll in 2026 😭😭😭",

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"text": "I feel dumb for falling for that post",

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"text": "I swear I’m not opening that QR code it’s gonna be a rickroll",

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"text": "I knew it was a trap, but I clicked the link anyway. It's fire tho",

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"text": "Who else got Rick Rolled by Matty McTech?",

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"text": "Never thought the video was taken down, not even for a second. I just wanted to hear my boy Rick Astley again.",

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"text": "I just got rickrolled",

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"text": "i love how everyone just got summoned here now for the same reason",

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"text": "Is everyone going to ignore the fact that Rick Astley looks like a twelve year old boy but has a uniquely deep voice?",

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"text": "1987 : normal song 2026 : national anthem of the universe",

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{

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"text": "Who is here in August 2026?",

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{

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"text": "Let’s put the meme aside, this is actually a banging song.",

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{

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"text": "Ok let’s be honest here Rick rolling is the one meme that will never die",

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"published": "6 years ago (edited)",

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{

"id": "UgyDzA9Cfn_4Ix7XC1p4AaABAg",

"text": "Soooo who else saw a post saying this video got deleted?",

"author": "@ATAS18.",

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{

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"text": "Our science teacher had us scan a qr code... He did this with a straight face(and he is a serious teacher mind you)",

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{

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"text": "1B people have been Rick Rolled, what an achievement",

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{

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"text": "Gonna flag this for nudity so I can rick roll the YouTube staff",

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"text": "I Rick rolled my entire French class because we had to study a city in France and make a quiz about it as well as a presentation, I decided to make a Kahoot quiz because it’s very easy. I put a link in to this saying it’s the kahoot link. The teacher needless to say got very very mad. As well as my classmates asking who rick rolls in 2019",

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]

}

GET/v1/data/youtube/videos/{video_id}/comments1 credit / run Verified

Video Comments

Top-level comments.

Handled for you:Rate Limit

Parameters

Name	Type	Req	Description
video_id	string	yes	Video id.
Advanced filters
continuation	string	no	Token.