YouTube Public Comments: Most-used fields

The table below gives information about most-used fields that you can import from YouTube Public Comments. Other fields might also be available in Adverity.

The fields that you can fetch in Adverity are updated regularly to reflect updates to data source APIs.

API name	Adverity UI name	Description	Use in Adverity
authorChannelId	authorChannelId	The unique identifier for the YouTube channel of the comment’s author, if available.	dimension
authorChannelUrl	authorChannelUrl	The URL for the YouTube channel of the comment’s author, if available.	dimension
authorDisplayName	authorDisplayName	The display name of the user who posted the comment.	dimension
authorProfileImageUrl	authorProfileImageUrl	The URL of the avatar image for the user who posted the comment.	dimension
canRate	canRate	Indicates whether the authenticated user can rate this comment (like or dislike).	dimension
channelId	channelId	The unique identifier of the YouTube channel associated with the comment. This could be the channel the comment refers to, or the channel owning the video/post where the comment was made.	dimension
date	date		dimension
id	id	The unique identifier for the comment.	metric
likeCount	likeCount	The total number of likes that this comment has received.	metric
parentId	parentId	The unique identifier of the top-level comment if this comment is a reply. This field is only present for replies.	dimension
publishedAt	publishedAt	The date and time, in ISO 8601 format, when the comment was originally published.	dimension
textDisplay	textDisplay	The comment’s text, formatted for display. The format can be plain text or HTML, and may include replacements like video links with titles.	dimension
textOriginal	textOriginal	The comment’s original raw text as it was initially posted or last updated. This content is typically only available to the comment’s author.	dimension
totalReplyCount	totalReplyCount	The total number of replies to the top-level comment within a comment thread. This field is specific to top-level comments.	metric
updatedAt	updatedAt	The date and time, in ISO 8601 format, when the comment was last updated.	dimension
videoId	videoId	The unique identifier of the YouTube video to which the comment refers, if applicable.	dimension
viewerRating	viewerRating	The rating the authenticated user has given to this comment. This field will typically not return a ‘dislike’ rating.	dimension