YouTube Channel Community Posts API
Scrape YouTube Channel Community Posts data with one API call. Fetches community posts from a YouTube channel's Posts tab (post ID, URL, content, images, attached video, like count, publish time, channel info) plus a `continuationToken` when more results are available. Pass `handle` or `channelId` for the first page; forward `continuationToken` for subsequent pages. DATES ARE APPROXIMATE: `post.published_at` is derived from the tab's own relative label ("2 days ago"), so its time-of-day is not real and the date is only as precise as that label. This tab publishes no exact timestamp.
Last updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
Returns the posts on a channel's Posts tab, each with post id, URL, text, images, attached video, like count, publish time, and channel info.
Use it to read a channel's text and image posts in bulk; community-post fetches one post when you already have its URL.
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The Channel Community Posts endpoint gives you structured YouTube data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts?handle=MrBeast"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts",
params={
'handle': 'MrBeast',
},
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()const response = await fetch(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts?handle=MrBeast",
{
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
},
);
const data = await response.json();Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| channelId | No | YouTube channel ID. |
| handle | No | YouTube channel handle (with or without @). |
| continuationToken | No | Continuation token from a previous response: fetches the next page. |
| since | No | Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following `next_cursor`, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept. `published_after`, `start_date`, `from_date`, `publish_time` (`yesterday`, `this-week`, `this-month`, `last-3-months`, `last-6-months`) and `max_age_days` are accepted and applied as `since`. |
| until | No | Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. `published_before`, `end_date` and `to_date` are accepted and applied as `until`. |
What does the YouTube Channel Community Posts API return?
Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "youtube",
"endpoint": "/v1/youtube/channel/community-posts",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"post": {
"id": "UgkxHIfkQ3K2my65-kPq4VkRv9KrBRyN7alx",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxHIfkQ3K2my65-kPq4VkRv9KrBRyN7alx",
"content": {
"text": "NO MORE WAITING, this Saturday “Eat Everything In A Grocery Store Win $1,000,000” finally goes live! You’ll get to see if Juan and the gang pulled it off :D",
"media_urls": [
"https://yt3.ggpht.com/-gQueci3cQXl50-Tgiv_Ru65aUfw2-6aHe9ny2Iy1KWoU1iAALkCZ9VeiZkH5tcqqiAjaTjb50D7iQ=s1320-c-fcrop64=1,35f50000ca0affff-rw-nd-v1"
],
"thumbnail_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/-gQueci3cQXl50-Tgiv_Ru65aUfw2-6aHe9ny2Iy1KWoU1iAALkCZ9VeiZkH5tcqqiAjaTjb50D7iQ=s1320-c-fcrop64=1,35f50000ca0affff-rw-nd-v1",
"duration_seconds": null
},
"author": {
"username": "user_e32d6a",
"display_name": "MrBeast",
"avatar_url": null,
"verified": null
},
"engagement": {
"views": null,
"likes": 212000,
"comments": null,
"shares": null,
"saves": null
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": null,
"spoiler": null,
"pinned": null,
"deleted": false
},
"published_at": "2026-09-29T00:00:00.000Z",
"ext": {
"channel_id": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
"published_label": "3 days ago",
"published_precision": "day"
}
},
"computed": {
"engagement_rate": null,
"language": "en",
"content_category": "other",
"estimated_reach": null
}
},
{
"post": {
"id": "UgkxzJ6r7VLAK03TN5Gjq7YpjHmjtee_Rdn9",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxzJ6r7VLAK03TN5Gjq7YpjHmjtee_Rdn9",
"content": {
"text": "The Most Dangerous Games, my new book with James Patterson, launches tomorrow! To celebrate, I'm giving away $1,000,000 to one person who enters our skill-based contest at https://www.themostdangerousgames.com. It starts Sept.1, your ticket to play is the book! Find it tomorrow wherever you buy books :)",
"media_urls": [
"https://yt3.ggpht.com/rhesNywNa9lXn-aQdFLZnqffZ30LdDsgLJGOEFt6n8RWKAX3_La47jPwgIAW5OXgNiBJmuSHYe5G_Y8=s5464-c-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw-nd-v1",
"https://yt3.ggpht.com/22Wmjp39NDMg2OycAU3icJUUD0lUVI334ZqMpexccPKXraVr57pNZNglJ83x3HB-AW2QkoPrkny12w=s1000-c-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw-nd-v1"
],
"thumbnail_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/rhesNywNa9lXn-aQdFLZnqffZ30LdDsgLJGOEFt6n8RWKAX3_La47jPwgIAW5OXgNiBJmuSHYe5G_Y8=s5464-c-fcrop64=1,00000000ffffffff-rw-nd-v1",
"duration_seconds": null
},
"author": {
"username": "user_e32d6a",
"display_name": "MrBeast",
"avatar_url": null,
"verified": null
},
"engagement": {
"views": null,
"likes": 413000,
"comments": null,
"shares": null,
"saves": null
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": null,
"spoiler": null,
"pinned": null,
"deleted": false
},
"published_at": "2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z",
"ext": {
"channel_id": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
"published_label": "1 month ago",
"published_precision": "month"
}
},
"computed": {
"engagement_rate": null,
"language": "en",
"content_category": "other",
"estimated_reach": null
}
}
],
"next_cursor": "4qmFsgKTARIYVUNYNk9RM0RrY3NiWU5FNkg4dVFRdVZBGl5FZ1Z3YjNOMGM3Z0JBSklEQUtvREtBb2tVVEpvUTFKR1VsaFhha1pyVmtkNFIxVnFRbGRVVjBaV1ZGaFNUMUpWV2tSU1ZVWkNLQXJ5QmdrS0Iwb0FvZ0VDQ0FFJTNEmgIWYmFja3N0YWdlLWl0ZW0tc2VjdGlvbg%3D%3D",
"total": null,
"dropped": 0
},
"credits_used": 1,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiNHFtRnNnS1RBUklZVlVOWU5rOVJNMFJyWTNOaVdVNUZOa2c0ZFZGUmRWWkJHbDVGWjFaM1lqTk9NR00zWjBKQlNrbEVRVXR2UkV0QmIydFZWRXB2VVRGS1IxVnNhRmhoYTFweVZtdGtORkl4Vm5GUmJHUlZWakJhVjFaR2FGTlVNVXBXVjJ0U1UxWlZXa05MUVhKNVFtZHJTMEl3YjBGdlowVkRRMEZGSlRORW1nSVdZbUZqYTNOMFlXZGxMV2wwWlcwdGMyVmpkR2x2YmclM0QlM0QiLCJlIjoieW91dHViZS9jaGFubmVsL2NvbW11bml0eS1wb3N0cyIsInAiOiJjb250aW51YXRpb25Ub2tlbiJ9",
"has_more": true,
"page_size": 10
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-02T07:30:12.969Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the YouTube Channel Community Posts API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
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