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Here is the API response for retrieving comments of a YouTube video, taken from https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_comments:

<feed> <entry> ... <media:group> ... </media:group> <gd:comments> <gd:feedLink href='https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/VIDEO_ID/comments'/> </gd:comments> </entry> </feed>

I am not sure which API to use to get this data. I have written my code in Python which gives me the author name and comment of a video. I want to fetch the timestamp of each comment for my research work.

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Well, it would help to see the code you're using to get the author and comment text so I could give you the actual code that does it. But without that, looking at the API response, each comment is in an <entry> tag under the top-level <feed> tag.

For each comment there is both a <published> and an <updated> tag with timestamps. I'm guessing those are the date of the original comment and the date of the last edit. If I had your code to see how you're parsing the xml to begin with, I could probably add a snippet for you to retrieve those.

Edit: given the code in the link below. Here's a modification of the main loop that should do what you want.

for comment in comments_generator(client, VIDEO_ID): author_name = comment.author[0].name.text text = comment.content.text post_date = comment.published.text last_update_date = comment.update.text print("{}(date:{}): {}".format(author_name, post_date, text))

Note that the dates are in text format. If you want to extract python datetime objects from them, check out dateutil and this question.

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Traceback (most recent call last): File "comments_YT2.12.py", line 37, in <module> last_update_date = comment.update.text AttributeError: 'YouTubeVideoCommentEntry' object has no attribute 'update'
worked fine, i guess there is an attribute named published but not update, because i removed that line and i got the desired output, but there is something some attribute which can give us updated timestamp too. let me check.

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