30 – YouTube Data API – Comments – delete function

This is article 30 of the YouTube API With PHP series.

The delete function deletes a comment either posted by the current user, or posted to a Video or Channel owned by the current user. This call requires user-authentication.

Parameters

• key (string) required. Your API key
• access_token (string) required in certain cases. This is the user Access token.
• id (string). Required. Id of the comment.

 

Example Requests

Delete a comment.

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?key=xx&access_token=xx&id=xx

 

Response

On successful execution this method returns an HTTP 204 response code (No Content). If you specify a non-existent comment id then the call will fail.

Sample code to delete a comment:

<?php
    error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE ^ E_WARNING ^ E_DEPRECATED);
    set_time_limit(60 * 3);
    session_start();
    
    $g_youtubeDataAPIKey = "***";

    $commentId = "z12jy3qp3q21e3se322ttjmaqlimxxohg04.1496042388885297";
    
    $_SESSION["code_id"] = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
    
    if ($_SESSION["access_token"] == null || $_SESSION["access_token"] == "") {
   	 // check for oauth response
   	 header("Location: ../../init-login.php");
   	 exit;
    }
   	 
   	 $accessToken = $_SESSION["access_token"];

   	 // make api request
   	 $url = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?key=" . $g_youtubeDataAPIKey .
   			  "&access_token=" . $accessToken . "&id=" . $commentId;

   	 
   	 $curl = curl_init();
   	 curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
   				 CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
   				 CURLOPT_URL => $url,
   				 CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'YouTube API Tester',
   				 CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => 1,
   				 CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST=> 0,
   				 CURLOPT_HEADER=>1,
   				 CURLOPT_CAINFO => "../../cert/cacert.pem",
   				 CURLOPT_CAPATH => "../../cert/cacert.pem",
   				 CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,
   				 CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST=>"DELETE"

   				 ));
   	 $resp = curl_exec($curl);

   	 curl_close($curl);

   	 var_dump($resp);
   	 


    //////////////////////////////////

    class Comment {
   	 public $snippet;
   	 public $id;
    }

    class Snippet {
   	 public $textOriginal;
    }

?>

 

Here is the output:

string(344) “HTTP/1.1 204 No Content Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache Expires: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 05:22:36 GMT ETag: “m2yskBQFythfE4irbTIeOgYYfBU/7MMpT8ZDo9n_QH3wl-DdyiOMn04″ Vary: Origin Vary: X-Origin Server: GSE Alt-Svc: quic=”:443″; ma=2592000; v=”38,37,36,35″ “