YouTube Data API allows you to get latest comment THREADs and replies to that thread via comments/list endpoint but you cannot seem to get a flattened list of comments (thread & replies merged) or latest comment replies. Maybe I'm missing something.
My requirement is I want to check the latest comments, but in order to do this, I need to scan every comment thread and compare against a local store to see what is "new" and not been seen before.
This means calling comment/threads, then looks at all replies, then repeat. You cannot run this process in parallel and each page of results requires the previous token.
Thus for a big channel with 100s of 1000s of comments it taking forever to do a basic diff of what is a new comment. This seems a little crazy to me.
Again, maybe I'm missing something. Can anyone share with the YouTube Data API how to get the latest replies/threads quickly?
