# Social listening API: export the comments on Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and LinkedIn posts as data

Give your agent a post URL on Instagram, a video on YouTube, a thread on Reddit or a post on LinkedIn and get the comments back as rows: author, text, likes, time, replies. 24 tools across these sources answer through 鹦鹉AI, each at its own rate, from under one credit per call. This is the raw material of social listening, not the dashboard: the rows come back and your agent does the reading.

## What is the best way to ask 鹦鹉AI?

Setup line (paste into any agent): `set up 鹦鹉AI — https://parrot.amorist.cn/llms.txt`

Then ask: "Using 鹦鹉AI, get every comment on these three Instagram posts and this YouTube video, show me the price per source first, then group the comments into questions, complaints and praise, quote the three most upvoted in each group with a link, and tell me how many comments you actually fetched per post."

- **Give the post, not the account** Every tool here takes one post, video or thread and returns its comments. Comments by one user across many posts is a different job and no tool here does it.
- **Ask for the price per source** 鹦鹉AI prints the rate for each source before the call, so the run has a number on it before it starts.
- **Ask for the groups, not the dump** Three thousand comments is not an answer. The forty that matter are, and that is what the agent is for.
- **Ask how many it fetched** Comments paginate. A tool that returns the first page and stops is a partial read that looks complete unless the count is on the table.

## Why go through 鹦鹉AI

- **No subscription, no seats** Charged per call. No card, no minimum; top up the prepaid balance.
- **Switch by changing a word** Another tool is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.

Endpoints:

- `crawl4ai.instagram.post.comments` — Comments of an Instagram post (instagram): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/instagram
- `instagram.instagram.post.comments` — Comments on one of your Instagram posts (instagram): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/instagram
- `anyapi.instagram.post.comments` — Instagram Post Comments (instagram): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/instagram
- `brightdata.x.instagram-comments` — Instagram post comments by post URL (instagram): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/instagram
- `justoneapi.x.instagram-get-post-comments-v1` — Instagram post comments by shortcode (instagram): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/instagram
- `tikhub.x.instagram-v3-get-post-comments` — Instagram post comments by shortcode (instagram): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/instagram
- `tikhub.x.instagram-v2-fetch-post-comments` — Instagram post comments by shortcode or URL (instagram): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/instagram
- `scrapecreators.instagram.post.comments` — Instagram post or reel comments by URL (instagram): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/instagram
- `crawl4ai.youtube.video.comments` — Comments of a YouTube video (youtube): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/youtube
- `youtube.youtube.video.comments` — List comments on a YouTube video by video id (youtube): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/youtube
- `scrapecreators.youtube.video.comments` — YouTube video comments by URL — replies, likes, authors (youtube): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/youtube
- `justoneapi.x.youtube-get-video-comment-v1` — YouTube video comments by video id (youtube): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/youtube
- `tikhub.youtube.video.comments` — YouTube video comments by video id (youtube): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/youtube
- `brightdata.x.youtube-comments` — YouTube video comments by video URL (youtube): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/youtube
- `tikhub.x.reddit-app-fetch-post-comments` — Reddit post comments by post fullname (reddit): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/reddit
- `justoneapi.x.reddit-get-post-comments-v1` — Reddit post comments by post id (reddit): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/reddit
- `brightdata.x.reddit-comments` — Reddit post comments by post URL (reddit): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/reddit
- `scrapecreators.x.v1-reddit-post-comments` — Reddit post comments by URL (reddit): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/reddit
- `crawl4ai.reddit.post.comments` — The comments of a Reddit post (reddit): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/reddit
- `crawl4ai.linkedin.post.comments` — Comments on a LinkedIn post (linkedin): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/linkedin
- `harvestapi.linkedin.post.comments` — Get comments on a LinkedIn post (linkedin): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/linkedin
- `tikhub.x.linkedin-web-v2-get-post-comments` — LinkedIn post comments by activity URN (linkedin): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/linkedin
- `justoneapi.x.linkedin-get-post-comments-v1` — LinkedIn post comments by post id (linkedin): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/linkedin
- `fetchinio.linkedin.post.comments` — LinkedIn post comments by URL or URN (linkedin): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/linkedin

## What people actually struggle with

Of the ~210 Reddit and X posts read in August 2026 about seventy were on the job, and eleven promotional clusters were excluded, including one coordinated push across seven X accounts and one post with a word joiner hidden inside its words. These five are people trying to read comments, not sell a tool.

**The comments of one user, not one post**

> "Is there a way/tool to find all instagram comments of a particular user?" (r/OSINT, 17 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/OSINT/comments/zp45ym/is_there_a_waytool_to_find_all_instagram_comments/)

What this page can do about it: Not through any tool here, and not through any tool in the catalog. The tools go post to comments. Saying so plainly is worth more than a page that lets an agent try and fail.

**Five hundred comments, without a subscription**

> "Looking for a free open-source tool to scrape Instagram comments (approx. 500)" (r/osinttools, 6 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/osinttools/comments/1txogbf/looking_for_a_free_opensource_tool_to_scrape/)

What this page can do about it: Not free, but cheap: five hundred Instagram comments is a handful of pages at under a credit each, from a prepaid balance with no card. The open source route works until the platform changes; the paid tool is somebody else's job to keep working.

**The fear is the ban, not the fetch**

> "How can I do a cron job that scrape likes and comments on Instagram without get banned" (r/DataHoarder: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1qcdcg0/how_can_i_do_a_cron_job_that_scrape_likes_and/)

What this page can do about it: By not using your account. The paid tools here fetch public posts on the tool's side, so there is no session of yours to flag. What they cannot reach is a private account, and no tool should be expected to.

**Three thousand comments, forty that matter**

> "a video with 3,000 comments might have 40 that are actually useful to me and the rest is noise" (r/claude, 3 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1ragfjd/im_building_a_youtube_comment_filtering_tool_with/)

What this page can do about it: That is the whole design of the prompt on this page: fetch cheaply, then have the agent group and quote. The fetch is the commodity; the filtering is where the reader's own judgement, and the model, earn their keep.

**People do not say what a dashboard can count**

> "People won't say 'this product lacks value.' They'll say 'idk man feels overpriced for what it is'" (r/AIAgentsStack, 24 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIAgentsStack/comments/1q57jgj/anyone_else_realizing_social_listening_is_way/)

What this page can do about it: Which is the case for raw comments over a sentiment score. A keyword dashboard misses that sentence; an agent reading the rows does not. The rows are the cheap part, and they are what this page sells.

## What actually differs

- The 鹦鹉AI routed endpoint is the explicit opt in where you ask 鹦鹉AI to choose among the tools for that source, and it names the tool that served and bills that tool's rate. Every other tool is a direct call and the choice is yours.
- What no tool here does: comments by one user across many posts, which is the question the OSINT forums keep asking; comments on a private account; and any promise about your own LinkedIn or Instagram login, because none of these tools use one. A scraped LinkedIn post is public data fetched by the tool, and LinkedIn's terms are LinkedIn's. Several tools here have not been called live through 鹦鹉AI yet and carry no verified date: Bright Data on all three sources, ScrapeCreators on Reddit, TikHub on LinkedIn. Run one post before an agent runs a thousand.

## What is a social listening API?

Strictly, it is the fetch step of social listening: a call that takes a post and returns the public comments under it as structured rows, so software can read them instead of a person scrolling. The listening suites sell the whole loop, monitoring, alerts, sentiment and a dashboard, by the seat. These tools sell the one part that is hard to build, getting the comments off the source, per call, and leave the reading to your agent. On YouTube the official Data API does this for any public video. On Instagram the official API only reaches comments on posts you manage, which is why the paid tools exist: they fetch comments on anyone's public post. Reddit and LinkedIn have paid tools only.

## Before you start

**Can I get all the comments a particular user has left?** No. Every tool takes a post and returns its comments. There is no tool that takes a username and returns everything they have written, on any of these sources, and this page will not pretend one exists.

**Is this a replacement for a social listening tool?** For the fetch, yes, and for a few credits rather than a seat. For the rest, no: there is no alerting, no dashboard and no case management here. The rows return comments, your agent reads them, and you decide what to build on top.

**Will my account get banned?** Nothing here uses your account except the two official tools, which use it the way the platform intends. The paid tools run on the tool's own infrastructure and return public data; 鹦鹉AI holds the tool keys and you never log in anywhere.

HTML version: https://parrot.amorist.cn/use-cases/mine-the-comments