YouTube Posts by user API
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List videos from a YouTube channel URL, up to 50 per call. Get title, description, views, likes, comments, duration and publish date. Use since for a start date and sort for newest, oldest or popular. One batch may not cover the whole channel archive.
Send POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with platform set to youtube and action set to user_posts. Price $0.56 per 1,000 requests ($0.000556 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.
AI prompt
#Please help me write a data collection script with the EveryInfra YouTube Posts by user endpoint (youtube/user_posts).
How the endpoint works:
- Request: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with the header Authorization: Bearer <API key>. Read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable and never hard-code it.
- In the request body, set platform to youtube and action to user_posts, and put the parameters inside params.
- Required parameters:
- url: The target URL required by YouTube actions. Use full channel URLs for profile and user_posts, or specific watch?v= and share links for video, comments, and transcript.
- Optional parameters:
- since: The lower date bound for filtering channel videos, Shorts, or comments. It applies to those lists only.
- sort: The sort order applied across YouTube actions. For search, accepted values are relevance, newest, most_viewed, and top_rated. For channel videos and Shorts, accepted values are newest, oldest, and popular. (allowed: newest / oldest / popular)
- limit: The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 50. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. (default: 10)
- Returns a list of records. Main fields of each record: id, url, title, text, author_name, author_username, author_id, author_url, like_count, comment_count, view_count, duration; 24 fields in total, full list at https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/catalog?platform=youtube.
- Example request body:
{
"platform": "youtube",
"action": "user_posts",
"params": {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
}
}
- Price: $0.56 per 1,000 requests; failed and empty results are not charged.
- For dozens or hundreds of targets, add "mode": "async" to the body: you get a job_id at once and poll GET https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/jobs/{job_id} for the result.
- On 422, fix the request using the suggested parameter names and allowed values in the error; on 429 or 503, wait for Retry-After and try again.
Before writing code, ask me which targets I need, how many, which fields, and what output format I want; then confirm the plan and the rough cost with me.Request parameters
#| Name | In | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Authorization | header | string | Yes | - | Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository. |
platform | body | string | Yes | youtube | Platform identifier, fixed value. |
action | body | string | Yes | user_posts | Capability identifier, fixed value. |
url | body.params | string | Yes | - | The target URL required by YouTube actions. Use full channel URLs for profile and user_posts, or specific watch?v= and share links for video, comments, and transcript. Channel metadata is derived from published content, and comments does not return channel community board posts. |
since | body.params | date | No | - | The lower date bound for filtering channel videos, Shorts, or comments. It applies to those lists only. |
sort | body.params | string (enum) | No | - | The sort order applied across YouTube actions. For search, accepted values are relevance, newest, most_viewed, and top_rated. For channel videos and Shorts, accepted values are newest, oldest, and popular. For comments, accepted values are newest and popular. Specifying this parameter on a single-video query does not filter that video's content.Allowed valuesnewestoldestpopular |
limit | body.params | integer (1–50) | No | 10 | The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 50. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. |
Code samples
#curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"platform": "youtube",
"action": "user_posts",
"params": {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
}
}'OpenAPI definition (JSON)Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.
Response example
#{ "id": "req_…", "platform": "youtube", "action": "user_posts", "results": [ { "id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)", "text": "The official video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. \n\nNever: The Autobiography 📚 OUT NOW! \nFollow this link to get your copy and listen to Rick’s ‘Never’ playlist ❤️ #RickAstleyNever\nhttps://linktr.ee/rickastleynever\n\n“Never Gonna Give You Up” was a global smash on i…", "author_name": "•••", "author_username": "•••", "author_id": "•••", "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/•••", "like_count": 19000000, "comment_count": 2457642, "view_count": 1820151607, "duration": "00:03:33", "posted_at": "2009-10-25T06:57:33+00:00", "platform": "youtube" } ], "count": 1, "billing": { "charged": …, "charged_usd": …, "balance_after_usd": …, … }, "quota": { … }}
Response fields
#Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the platform does not show are never made up.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
id | The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms. |
url | Link to the record on the platform. |
title | Title. null when the platform has no titles (for example text-only posts). |
text | Body text with HTML removed, returned in full and never cut short (on a few platforms the list results themselves carry only an excerpt; the platform's field notes say so). |
author_name | Author's display name. |
author_username | Author's username (@handle), usually usable in URLs. |
author_id | Author's unique ID on the platform. |
author_url | Link to the author's profile on the platform. |
like_count | Likes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0. |
comment_count | Comments. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
view_count | Views or plays. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
duration | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
posted_at | Publish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it. |
thumbnail_url | Thumbnail link, lower resolution than image_url. |
hashtags | Hashtags in the text, in order of appearance; absent when there are none. |
is_comments_disabled | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
is_members_only | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
is_paid_partnership | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
author_follower_count | Author's follower count. null means not disclosed. |
author_video_count | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
author_view_count | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
author_created_at | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
description_links | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
search_rank | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |
Errors and billing
#- 401
- Missing or invalid key.
- 402
- Insufficient balance. Top up first.
- 422
- Invalid parameter name or value. Fix it using the suggestions in the error. No charge.
- 429
- Per-minute request limit reached. Wait for Retry-After, then try again.
- 503
- Could not complete. The held charge is returned to your balance. If the outcome is unknown, verify it before you retry.
- 200 empty
- No data. No charge.