YouTube Community Posts API

Community posts — channel{}, publishedTimeApprox, likeCountIsApproximate, linkedVideos[], cursor (1 credit).

Pass a channel URL, @handle, or UC… ID and get that channel's community /posts tab as clean JSON. communityStatus tells you what an empty list means: ok (posts[]), no_posts (tab open, zero posts), disabled (YouTube says this community is unavailable — 200, not 404). A handle that does not resolve is 404 CHANNEL_NOT_FOUND — never "No community posts found". A tab we could not read is 503 COMMUNITY_UNAVAILABLE (retryable, Retry-After). Each post: id/url, channel{id,title,url,handle} (no flat author twin), text, likeCount + likeCountText + likeCountIsApproximate, publishedTimeApprox + publishedTimeIsApproximate + publishedTimeText (relative labels only — no exact instant source), postType (text|image|poll|video|playlist|quiz), pollOptions[] + totalVotes + totalVotesIsApproximate when poll, images[], hashtags[] (deduped; digit-only rank mentions like "ranks #1" are not hashtags — YouTube never linkifies them), linkedVideos[] when the post attaches a video. Cursor pagination via nextCursor + hasMore. Flat 1 credit on the native path (including no_posts and disabled); 404/503 bill 0.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/youtube-community-posts