Youtube Community Post Details Scraper

🔍 YouTube Community Post Details Scraper – Overview

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper turns individual YouTube Community posts into clean, structured records. Give it post IDs or post URLs, and it returns the post text, post type, like and comment counts, hashtags, image and video links, and channel details for each post.

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper is built for marketers, social media analysts, researchers, agencies and developers who need data on specific Community posts without copying numbers by hand. Results are saved to an Apify dataset you can export or read through the API.

The easiest way to start: paste a few post links into Start URLs, click Start, and open the Output tab when the run finishes.

💡 Tip: The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper works post by post. It's a good fit when you already know which posts you want to analyse.

✨ YouTube Community Post Details Scraper – Key Features

Everything the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper offers at a glance:

Feature	What it means for you
🆔 Post ID input	Enter bare post IDs; the post URL is built for you
🔗 Post URL input	Paste post URLs or share links copied from YouTube
🧹 Duplicate removal	Identical URLs are processed once per run
📊 Engagement metrics	Like and comment counts as integers plus display text
🖼️ Media links	Image URLs with dimensions, and watch links for video posts
🏷️ Hashtags and links	Hashtags and every link in the post text
🗳️ Post type detection	Text, image, video, poll or quiz
👤 Channel details	Channel ID, name, URL, handle and avatar

📊 What Data Can the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper Extract?

Each post becomes one dataset item. The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper covers six areas of post metadata:

• Post identity – post ID, post URL and status
• Channel and author – channel ID, name, URL, handle and avatar URL
• Content – post text, hashtags, links, post type and attachment type
• Engagement – likes and comments, as numbers and as display text
• Media – image objects with dimensions, image URLs and video links
• Timing – relative publish time shown on YouTube (for example "3 days ago") and collection timestamps

📌 Note: The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper collects the comment count, not comment text. Polls and quizzes are flagged with is_poll and is_quiz; options, answers and vote results are not collected.

🚀 How to Use the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper

Setting up the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper takes a few minutes, even if you're new to Apify:

• Open the Actor's input page in Apify Console.
• Add post IDs to Post IDs, post links to Start URLs, or use both.
• Click Start.
• Follow progress in the Log tab.
• Open the Output tab, preview the table and export the dataset.

🎯 Why Use the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper?

Benefit	Details
Saves manual work	No copying likes, comments and captions from the browser
Precise targeting	You decide exactly which posts are collected
Sortable numbers	Counts like "1.2K" are also converted into integers
Automation-ready	Run the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper via API, schedules or integrations

🧭 How to Scrape Posts by ID or URL with the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper lets you mix both input types in one run.

🆔 Using post IDs

A Community post ID is the code at the end of a post link, like the Ugkx… codes in the prefilled examples. In https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx7b2s7ZNLsThCIh1h8FQNpOZZqbChNXrd, the ID is everything after /post/. Add one ID per line; empty entries are skipped.

🔗 Using post URLs and share links

Paste post URLs or share links into Start URLs. URLs are used exactly as entered. The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper merges both lists and drops exact duplicates before processing.

⚠️ Watch out: Duplicates are matched by exact URL text, so a post entered as an ID and again as a share link with extra parameters (such as ?si=…) can produce two identical results.

🗳️ Can the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper Detect Polls, Quizzes, Images and Videos?

Yes. Every YouTube Community Post Details Scraper item carries post_type and attachment_type, and media fields depend on the post content:

Post content	post_type	attachment_type	Filled fields
Text only	text	none	Media lists stay empty
One or more images	image	image	images, image_urls, image_url, media_urls, image_download_urls
Video	video	video	media_urls holds the watch link
Poll	poll	poll	is_poll is true
Quiz	quiz	quiz	is_quiz is true

For a single-image post, images lists every size YouTube provides, so pick the largest width for full resolution. For multi-image posts, each image appears once in its largest size.

💼 YouTube Community Post Details Scraper Use Cases

Use case	How the data helps
Campaign reporting	Likes and comment counts for launch or sponsored posts
Competitor monitoring	Engagement on selected rival announcements
Content research	Compare text, image, poll, quiz and video posts
Influencer vetting	See how a creator's posts perform before a partnership
Hashtag analysis	Group posts by the hashtags they use
Academic research	Datasets of chosen posts for social media studies

Agencies can run the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper weekly on a client's post list to build engagement reports.

📥 Input

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper has two optional input fields. Add at least one post; with both empty, the run ends with an empty dataset.

Field	Key	Type	Description
Post IDs	postids	Array of strings	YouTube Community post IDs
Start URLs	startUrls	Array of objects with url	Community post URLs or share links

There is no maximum-items setting: every unique post you supply is processed.

🧾 Sample input

These are the prefilled values, so you can run the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper with them straight away:

{
  "postids": [
    "Ugkx7b2s7ZNLsThCIh1h8FQNpOZZqbChNXrd",
    "Ugkxg-YuyvHwnlFZRktAZHHELzGBrskCHChJ"
  ],
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxRICJRI6AqAvKKwpkdHRfOfjRQB2bOODp" },
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxvwB4Cx_f5wkf4LRQJW9TCOMF_XH7Az4F" }
  ]
}

📤 Output

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper saves one item per post found on each page. If a page holds more than one post (for example, a post re-sharing another post), each is saved as its own item.

🧾 Sample output

{
  "status": "Success",
  "post_id": "UgkxRICJRI6AqAvKKwpkdHRfOfjRQB2bOODp",
  "post_url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxRICJRI6AqAvKKwpkdHRfOfjRQB2bOODp",
  "channel_id": "UC3kZ8vQpW1xY2rT9mN4bL7a",
  "channel_name": "Example Creator",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@examplecreator",
  "channel_thumbnail_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/EXAMPLE_AVATAR=s176",
  "author_name": "Example Creator",
  "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@examplecreator",
  "author_handle": "@examplecreator",
  "post_type": "image",
  "attachment_type": "image",
  "content_text": "New studio tour is live! #behindthescenes",
  "published_time_text": "3 days ago",
  "published_time": "2026-09-29T10:15:42.318204Z",
  "like_count": 1200,
  "like_count_text": "1.2K",
  "comment_count": 86,
  "comment_count_text": "86",
  "hashtags": ["#behindthescenes"],
  "images": [{ "url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/EXAMPLE_IMAGE=s1080", "width": 1080, "height": 1080 }],
  "image_urls": ["https://yt3.ggpht.com/EXAMPLE_IMAGE=s1080"],
  "image_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/EXAMPLE_IMAGE=s1080",
  "media_urls": ["https://yt3.ggpht.com/EXAMPLE_IMAGE=s1080"],
  "external_links": ["https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/behindthescenes"],
  "total_votes": 1200,
  "is_poll": false,
  "is_quiz": false,
  "comment_threads_url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxRICJRI6AqAvKKwpkdHRfOfjRQB2bOODp",
  "image_download_urls": ["https://yt3.ggpht.com/EXAMPLE_IMAGE=s1080"],
  "detected_language": "en",
  "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@examplecreator/community",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-29T10:15:42.318911Z"
}

📋 Output data fields

Every YouTube Community Post Details Scraper item contains these keys:

Key	Type	Description
status	String	Always Success for saved items
post_id	String	Community post ID
post_url	String	Standard post URL
channel_id	String	Author's YouTube channel ID
channel_name	String	Channel display name
channel_url	String	Channel URL
channel_thumbnail_url	String	Largest channel avatar URL
author_name	String	Same as channel_name
author_url	String	Same as channel_url
author_handle	String	Handle, such as @examplecreator
post_type	String	text, image, video, poll or quiz
attachment_type	String	none, image, video, poll or quiz
content_text	String	Full post text
published_time_text	String	Relative publish time shown on YouTube
published_time	String	ISO timestamp of collection, not the publish date
like_count	Integer	Likes as a number
like_count_text	String	Likes as displayed, such as 1.2K
comment_count	Integer	Number of comments
comment_count_text	String	Compact count, such as 86, 1,5k or 2M
hashtags	Array	Hashtags in the post text
images	Array	Objects with url, width, height
image_urls	Array	Image URLs
image_url	String	First image URL, or empty
media_urls	Array	Image URLs or the video watch link
external_links	Array	Links in the post text, including hashtag and mention links
total_votes	Integer	Equals like_count; 0 for polls
is_poll	Boolean	true for poll posts
is_quiz	Boolean	true for quiz posts
comment_threads_url	String	Post URL showing the comments
image_download_urls	Array	Same as image_urls
detected_language	String	Currently always en (not detected)
source_url	String	Channel's Community page URL
scraped_at	String	ISO timestamp (UTC) of collection

💰 YouTube Community Post Details Scraper Pricing

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper uses pay-per-result pricing: you pay for post items saved to the dataset. The current price is shown on the Actor's Pricing tab in Apify Store.

Cost factor	What to expect
Billing unit	Each post item the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper saves to the dataset
Failed posts	Posts that can't be loaded produce no item
Duplicates	Exact duplicate URLs are removed first

💸 Cost tip: With no max-items field, your input list controls cost. Test the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper with two or three posts, remove posts entered twice in different URL formats, then scale up.

💡 Tips and Best Practices

• Use the standard URL format. https://www.youtube.com/post/<ID> makes duplicates easy to spot.
• Sort by integer fields. Use like_count and comment_count; the _text fields are for display.
• Track engagement over time. Schedule the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper on the same list and compare snapshots by scraped_at.
• Spot missing posts. Deleted, unavailable or unloadable posts produce no item, so compare your input list with the post_id values in the output.

📌 Important: published_time is the collection time and detected_language is always en. Use published_time_text for the post's age.

⚙️ API, Scheduling and Integrations

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper fits automated workflows on Apify:

• Apify API – start runs and fetch dataset items from your code.
• Scheduling – run the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper daily or weekly.
• Integrations and webhooks – send results to Google Sheets, Slack or Zapier, or notify your system when a run finishes.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🆔 What is a YouTube Community post ID?

It's the code after /post/ in a Community post URL. Paste it into Post IDs and the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper builds the full link.

📺 Can the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper collect all posts from a channel?

No. The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper handles specific posts you supply by ID or URL. It doesn't page through a channel's Community tab, so gather post links first.

💬 Does the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper collect comments?

It returns comment_count, comment_count_text and comment_threads_url. The text of individual comments is not included.

📊 How do I export YouTube Community post data to Excel or CSV?

After the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper finishes, open the Output tab or the dataset in Storage and choose Excel, CSV, JSON, XML or HTML.

🚫 What happens if a post is deleted or can't be loaded?

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper saves no item for it and moves on; posts that fail to load are noted in the log. The dataset never contains error rows.

🔑 Do I need a YouTube account or API key?

No. The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper reads publicly visible posts, so you only need an Apify account.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape YouTube Community posts?

The YouTube Community Post Details Scraper collects publicly available post information. You're responsible for using the data in line with YouTube's terms and privacy laws such as GDPR.

💬 Support

• 🐞 Found a bug in the YouTube Community Post Details Scraper or need an extra field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.
• 📧 Contact me by email: alphascraper69@gmail.com