Track missing/filtered comments #50
Description
With the knowledge that the Data API will not always return the exact number of comments reported in the video metadata, I can track the discrepancy for each video.
For example, the YouTuber 'Cody Ko' suffered media fallout after his problematic behavior was revealed. During this drama, it was alleged that the channel was heavily restricting/filtering its comments. Now, Astro can actually detect this.
Running Astro against the latest 'Cody Ko' video (which was particularly reported as having filtered comments), I can see the following:
This shows that the video metadata reported 9855 comments on the video. But we can see that the API only returned 8497, giving a discrepancy of 1358 comments, which would account for 13.8% of the total comments. If this data is correct, I feel this would likely justify the claims that the comments were being filtered. However, I'm very curious how other channels filter comments, and if my example here is a significant outlier.