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Mandar Pathak
Mandar Pathak

Reputation: 870

Check if comments are enabled for a YouTube video

Using the Youtube V3 api, is it possible to check if comments are enabled/disabled for a video? The resource representation at for a video doesn't indicate a property that can be used to identify this, but I was wondering if people have used another way to find this out.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1504

Answers (3)

user7134985
user7134985

Reputation:

statistics.commentCount gives null only when we do not any comments and we may or may not have disable comments. if we already have comments and we disable the comments, then it gives the correct comments count. As far now i do not see an option for Checking if comments are enabled for a YouTube video through API.

Upvotes: 0

Will
Will

Reputation: 491

I actually came across a way to do this accidentally (via a bug in some of my code for collecting comments), and it's surprisingly simple.

It happens that the JSON objects returned by API v3 on videos with comments disabled don't have a statistics.commentCount property.

Thus all you need to do is include part=statistics in your request, and check for the statistics.commentCount property in the response.

For example, in Python:

youtube = build(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME,
            YOUTUBE_API_VERSION,
            developerKey=DEVELOPER_KEY)

vid_stats = youtube.videos().list(
    part="statistics",
    id=vidId
).execute()

comment_count = vid_stats.get("items")[0].get("statistics").get("commentCount")

comment_count will get the value None if comments are disabled

Upvotes: 2

Ibrahim Ulukaya
Ibrahim Ulukaya

Reputation: 12877

It was requested in Public issue tracker before, but it's not available in API yet.

Upvotes: 0

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