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This alternative YouTube Data API has no limits or quotas. Extract YouTube comments data from one or multiple YouTube videos: full comment text, posting date, author username, video title, videoId. Download YouTube comments in JSON, CSV, and Excel.

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Constant "I encountered an issue retrieving comments from the video X"

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JakubKazK opened this issue
a month ago

The GPT's task is simple, scrape comments from 5 latest videos (I also connected YT channel scraper), but I constantly run into this issue.

According to the GPT itself: GPT

The issue seems to be a connection or timeout error with the YouTube comments retrieval tool, which can occasionally happen if the video has a high volume of comments or if there’s a temporary interruption in the service.

The videos have between 10-30 comments so it's not a problem of volume. I did place a 100 comments limit on the Scraper, but it still shouldn't be a problem, because the GPT trips up on the first video in the cue.

lukas.prusa avatar

Hi, thanks for opening this issue!

What sort of GPT tool are you using, it seems to be a problem there with it not being able to wait long enough for the scraper to finish? Could you link the run where this has been an issue? Thanks!

JK

JakubKazK

a month ago

Hey, I'm using my own GPT (GPT-4 OpenAI model), and currently it's on hold (I'm also on the cheapest plan). It could all be a noob error in prompting or some other issue stemming from my inexperience. Here's the link to the GPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-673359535a00819089eec36569a26ccd-kaz-co-creator-prototype

lukas.prusa avatar

Hmm, I'm not really experienced with these new custom GPT applications, but there is in fact one run on your profile that was started from what seems to be OpenAI's API. https://console.apify.com/view/runs/2r61fatQeR7ZlMyJA

It took more than 10 minutes before you've aborted it, so it makes sense that it timed out on OpenAI's end. They probably have some limit there, like e.g. 5 minutes, I don't know.

More importantly though, you've clearly set the maxResults limit to 5, which the crawler ignored? We will investigate this, as I believe that that's a bug.

I will keep you updated here, thanks!

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