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YouTube Comments Scraper – Replies, Likes & Top Words

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from $0.50 / 1,000 comments

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YouTube Comments Scraper – Replies, Likes & Top Words

YouTube Comments Scraper – Replies, Likes & Top Words

Scrape comments and replies from any YouTube video or Short: text, author, likes, reply count, pinned and hearted-by-creator flags, date. Plus a free video summary with views, likes, comment count and the most-used words. No login, no API key. Pay per comment.

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 comments

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Oğulcan Katmer

Oğulcan Katmer

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Get the comments from any YouTube video or Short, with each comment's text, author, like count, reply count and date. The scraper also flags pinned comments and comments hearted by the creator. Replies are optional.

No login, no API key and no YouTube Data API quota needed.

What you get

Per comment

FieldDescription
textThe comment
author, authorChannelIdWho wrote it (public channel handle)
likes, replyCountEngagement on the comment
publishedTimeText, publishedAtApprox"3 days ago" as shown on YouTube, and the approximate date
isPinned, isHeartedByCreator, authorIsChannelOwnerCreator interaction
isReply, parentCommentIdThread structure when replies are included
isEditedWhether the comment was edited
commentUrlA direct link that opens the comment on YouTube
videoTitle, channelNameThe video the comment belongs to

Per video (free)

  • Title, channel, subscribers, views, likes, total comment count and publish date
  • Comments and replies collected
  • The 25 most-used words in the comments, for a quick read of what viewers talk about

Input

{
"videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", "https://youtube.com/shorts/xxxxxxxxxxx"],
"maxComments": 500,
"sort": "newest",
"includeReplies": true,
"keywords": ["price", "shipping"]
}
  • Videos can be watch links, Shorts, youtu.be links, live streams or plain video ids.
  • Sort by newest or by YouTube's top comments.
  • Keywords and minimum likes filter the comments. You pay only for the comments that match.

Common uses

  • Audience research. Find out what viewers ask, praise or complain about.
  • Product feedback. Read comments on review and unboxing videos about your product or a competitor's.
  • Sentiment and NLP datasets. Get clean comment text with like counts.
  • Giveaways and community management. Export every comment with a direct link.
  • Influencer vetting. See how engaged a creator's audience really is.

Notes and limits

  • If the creator turned off comments, you get a status row that says so.
  • Like counts above 1,000 are shown by YouTube in rounded form ("1.2K"). They are converted to numbers.
  • Dates are relative on YouTube ("2 weeks ago"). publishedAtApprox converts them to an approximate date.
  • Only public comments are collected. The scraper never logs in.
  • This is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to YouTube or Google.

Pricing

You pay per comment or reply returned. The video summary rows and status rows are free. You can cap the spend of a run with Max cost per run in the Apify Console.

Support

Something missing or wrong? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the input you used and the run ID.