This tutorial will guide you through the process of fetching comments for a specific YouTube video using the YouTube Data API.

Prerequisites

• You should have a valid API key from RapidAPI. Replace rapidAPIKey with your actual API key.

Step 1: Set up the API endpoint URL

const url = 'https://youtube342.p.rapidapi.com/comments?part=snippet&parentId=UgzDE2tasfmrYLyNkGt4AaABAg';

• The url variable contains the API endpoint URL for fetching comments.
• The part parameter specifies the fields to include in the response, in this case, we want the snippet field which contains the comment details.
• The parentId parameter is the ID of the comment thread or video for which you want to retrieve comments. Replace UgzDE2tasfmrYLyNkGt4AaABAg with the actual ID of the video or comment thread you want to fetch comments for.

Step 2: Configure the API request options

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    'X-RapidAPI-Key': rapidAPIKey,
    'X-RapidAPI-Host': 'youtube342.p.rapidapi.com'
  }
};

• The options object contains the configuration for the API request.
• The method property is set to 'GET' since we are making a GET request to fetch comments.
• The headers property includes the necessary headers for authentication and specifying the RapidAPI host.

Step 3: Make the API request

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const result = await response.text();
  console.log(result);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

• We use the fetch function to make the API request, passing the url and options as arguments.
• The await keyword is used to wait for the response from the API.
• We retrieve the response data using response.text() and store it in the result variable.
• The result is then logged to the console using console.log().
• If an error occurs during the API request, it will be caught in the catch block and logged to the console using console.error().