Problem:
There're COMMENT THREADS (parent comments) under a YouTube Video. There're COMMENT REPLIES (replies to parent comments) under a comment thread. I want to post a COMMENT REPLY including (mentioning) the @author of the comment I'm replying to.
Example:
Parent Comment Thread (posted by Adam White): "Love this video!"
- |--Child Comment Reply (posted by Eve Black): "Why everybody likes it?"
- |--MY COMMENT COMES HERE (posted by Anton Frolov): "@Eve Black because it's awesome!!"
The guys here seemed to have a solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/49185982/10584570
I didn't go far with it though.
textOriginal = "+[Eve Black] because it's awesome!!"
textOriginal = "+/channel/UCeMvTX0kLEDXEKrxMnCk-BA because it's awesome!!"
textOriginal = "+[UCeMvTX0kLEDXEKrxMnCk-BA] because it's awesome!!"
textOriginal = "@UCeMvTX0kLEDXEKrxMnCk-BA because it's awesome!!"
textOriginal = "+UCeMvTX0kLEDXEKrxMnCk-BA because it's awesome!!"
Just gets posted as a raw text.
code piece:
response = youtube.comments().insert(
part="snippet",
body={"snippet": {
"parentId": "UgzpEQFrEGFZbvj3gZp4AaABAg",
"textOriginal": textOriginal}}).execute()
Docs:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/comments/insert
A ton of karma to anybody trying to help