Made readme consistent with actual return values and hotfixed missing…

… voteCount for 0 liked
FreeTubeApp · May 22, 2021 · 2743a9c · 2743a9c
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ The data is returned as a list of objects (seen below). The replies have the sam
     ],
     edited: Boolean, // If the comment has been edited or not
     text: String, // The text content of the comment
-    likes: Number, // The amount of likes the comment has
+    likes: String, // The amount of likes the comment has, numbers > 1000 displayed with 1.9K, 2K...
     time: String, // The time the comment was published. Written as "One day ago"
     numReplies: Number, // The number of replies found for the comment
     isHearted: Boolean, // If the video channel hearted the comment

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "yt-comment-scraper",
-  "version": "4.0.2",
+  "version": "4.0.3",
   "description": "Scrapes the comments of any YouTube video without YouTube API access. Uses the default YouTube Ajax calls to get the comment data.",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {

diff --git a/src/htmlParser.js b/src/htmlParser.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ class HtmlParser {
       const authorId = comment.authorEndpoint.browseEndpoint.browseId
       const authorName = comment.authorText.simpleText
       const authorThumbnails = comment.authorThumbnail.thumbnails
-      const likes = this.parseShortedNumberString(comment.voteCount.simpleText.split(' ')[0])
+      const likes = ('voteCount' in comment) ? comment.voteCount.simpleText.split(' ')[0] : '0'
       const numReplies = comment.replyCount ? comment.replyCount : 0
       const publishedTimeText = comment.publishedTimeText.runs[0].text
       const publishedText = publishedTimeText.replace('(edited)', '').trim()