YouTube.js/examples/comments

Comments

YouTube.js has full support for comments, including comment actions such as translating, liking, disliking and replying.

Usage

Get a Comments instance:

const comments = await yt.getComments(VIDEO_ID);

API

• Comments
  • .contents ⇒ CommentThread[]
  • .applySort ⇒ function
  • .createComment ⇒ function
  • .getContinuation ⇒ function
  • .has_continuation ⇒ getter
  • .page ⇒ getter

contents

A list of comment threads. Note: More about comment threads here.

Type: CommentThread[]

applySort(sort)

Sorts the comments with the given sort type.

Param	Type	Description
sort	string	Sort type. Can be TOP_COMMENTS, NEWEST_FIRST

Returns: Promise.<Comments>

createComment(text)

Creates a top-level comment.

Param	Type	Description
text	string	Comment content

Returns: Promise<ActionsResponse>

getContinuation()

Retrieves next batch of comment threads.

Returns: Promise.<Comments>

has_continuation

Returns whether there are more comments to be fetched.

Type: boolean

page

Returns original InnerTube response (sanitized).

Returns: ParsedResponse

Example

See index.ts.