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YouTube Community Post API

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One community post by id or permalink, with its full text, attachments, like count and exact comment count. Poll questions and options are under raw. Calls cost 1 credit each. A cache hit is free, and a failed or empty response is never charged.

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Request

GET/v1/youtube/community-post
ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
urlstringyesPost URL (youtube.com/post/Ugk…) or bare post id

Also accepts cache_max_age (a hit costs 0 credits) and include_raw (returns the untouched upstream payload under raw).

curl
curl "$API/v1/youtube/community-post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fpost%2FUgkx2lkCYp85jak0n5z7-bq_4ug2Rntk9iWT&cache_max_age=7d" \
  -H "x-api-key: $KEY"
JavaScript
const query = new URLSearchParams({
  url: 'https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx2lkCYp85jak0n5z7-bq_4ug2Rntk9iWT',
  cache_max_age: '7d',
});

const response = await fetch(`${API}/v1/youtube/community-post?${query}`, {
  headers: { 'x-api-key': KEY },
});

const body = await response.json();
if (!body.success) throw new Error(body.error.code);

// 1 credit, 0 on a cache hit
console.log(body.data, body.meta.creditsCharged);
Python
import os, httpx

r = httpx.get(
    f"{os.environ['API']}/v1/youtube/community-post",
    params={
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx2lkCYp85jak0n5z7-bq_4ug2Rntk9iWT",
        "cache_max_age": "7d",
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["KEY"]},
    timeout=30,
)

body = r.json()
if not body["success"]:
    raise RuntimeError(body["error"]["code"])

print(body["data"], body["meta"]["creditsCharged"])

Example response

Captured on , with raw removed and lists cut to two items. A live call returns current data.

response
{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "platform": "youtube",
    "id": "Ugkx2lkCYp85jak0n5z7-bq_4ug2Rntk9iWT",
    "type": "image",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx2lkCYp85jak0n5z7-bq_4ug2Rntk9iWT",
    "title": null,
    "text": "These last two videos are the best content we’ve ever made and somehow our next 3 uploads are even better. (The team is cooking) I’m feeling more excited and energized about our videos than ever before, new era of Beast coming up 🥰",
    "authorId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "authorHandle": "MrBeast",
    "authorName": "MrBeast",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/9davaq2roo2vRpZ80IIGBiCAy6CmeYfm17AkJbLofKYVreyWRk9Y3SF2tcHwTpdGSzRXym9Y_6096A=s994-rw-nd-v1",
    "mediaUrls": [
      "https://yt3.ggpht.com/9davaq2roo2vRpZ80IIGBiCAy6CmeYfm17AkJbLofKYVreyWRk9Y3SF2tcHwTpdGSzRXym9Y_6096A=s994-rw-nd-v1"
    ],
    "durationSeconds": null,
    "viewCount": null,
    "likeCount": 106554,
    "commentCount": 2999,
    "shareCount": null,
    "hashtags": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "isSponsored": null,
    "publishedAt": null,
    "fetchedAt": "2026-10-21T02:00:39.337Z"
  },
  "meta": {
    "platform": "youtube",
    "endpoint": "youtube.communityPost",
    "creditsCharged": 1,
    "cached": false,
    "cacheAgeSeconds": null,
    "durationMs": 330,
    "requestId": "req_r5s3sbao2evg2p0gyllo"
  }
}

Returns

Returns one Post.

Cost and behaviour

Credits1 per live request, 0 on a cache hit
Cacheableyes: cache_max_age accepts a cached copy
Batchableyes: usable as a target in POST /v1/jobs/batch
Subscribableyes: as often as every 3600 seconds, firing a webhook only on a change

Other YouTube endpoints

All YouTube endpointsThe unified schema