Comments: update

Modifies a comment.

Quota impact: A call to this method has a quota cost of 50 units.

Common use cases

Request

HTTP request

PUT https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl

Parameters

The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.

Parameters
Required parameters
part string
The part parameter identifies the properties that the API response will include. You must at least include the snippet part in the parameter value since that part contains all of the properties that the API request can update.

The following list contains the part names that you can include in the parameter value:
  • id
  • snippet

Request body

Provide a comment resource in the request body. For that resource:

  • You can set values for these properties:

    • snippet.textOriginal

Response

If successful, this method returns a comment resource in the response body.

Errors

The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the error message documentation for more detail.

Error type Error detail Description
badRequest (400) commentTextTooLong The comment resource that is being updated contains too many characters in the snippet.textOriginal property.
badRequest (400) invalidCommentMetadata The request metadata is invalid.
badRequest (400) operationNotSupported Only Google+ based comments can be updated.
badRequest (400) processingFailure The API server failed to successfully process the request. While this can be a transient error, it usually indicates that the request's input is invalid. Check the structure of the comment resource in the request body to ensure that it is valid.
forbidden (403) forbidden The comment could not be updated due to insufficient permissions. The request might not be properly authorized.
forbidden (403) ineligibleAccount The YouTube account used to authorize the API request must be merged with the user's Google account to update a comment or comment thread.
notFound (404) commentNotFound The specified comment could not be found. Check the value of the id property in the request body to ensure that it is correct.

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