TikTok Comments Scraper - Export Comments, Likes & Authors

TikTok comments scraper for public videos: paste video or photo links, share links from the app, bare numeric ids or creator usernames, and get one row per comment with the text, like count, reply count, the commenter's handle and avatar, the timestamp, a link back to the video, and any image attached to the comment. Nothing to log into.

One thing to be clear about up front: replies are off unless you switch them on, and then each reply is a row of its own, charged like a comment. With Add replies off you get the top-level comments only, each with its replyCount.

Input	TikTok video or photo links, share links (vm.tiktok.com, vt.tiktok.com), bare numeric ids, or usernames
Output	One row per comment: text, likes, reply count, timestamp, attached images, video link, and the commenter's id, handle, name, avatar and verified badge
Ceiling	20,000 comments per run
Account needed	None
Price	$0.25 per 1,000 comments on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 20,000

🔍 What TikTok Comments Scraper does

You give it videos, it pages through each comment section and flattens what it finds. A /video/ link, a /photo/ link, a share link copied from the app or a bare id all work, and you can mix them in one run.

maxComments is the total for the run. By default it is split evenly across the videos you passed: ten videos with maxComments: 500 is roughly 50 from each. Set maxCommentsPerVideo and each video gets that many instead, still inside the run total. A video with fewer comments than its share does not hand the rest to the next one.

Usernames in Profiles add each creator's newest public videos, five by default.

Comments are deduplicated as the pages are read, so nothing is returned or billed twice. A video with comments turned off, or one that would not answer, gets a row saying so and the run moves on.

📋 What data you get from each TikTok comment

What you get	Field
Comment id, and the video it sits under	id, videoId
The comment as written, emoji included	text
Likes on the comment, and how many replies are under it	likeCount, replyCount
When it was posted	createTime
Sticker or image replies, as links	images
Who wrote it: id, handle, display name, avatar, verified badge, profile link	user.id, user.uniqueId, user.nickname, user.avatar, user.verified, user.profileUrl
A link to the video, and the link, id or username you typed	videoUrl, sourceInput
The @handles written in the comment	mentions
When the row was read	scrapedAt
With Add replies: whether it is a reply, the comment it sits under, and the comment or reply it answers	isReply, parentCommentId, replyToCommentId
With Extra comment details: the creator liked it, the comment's language, a link to it, labels such as Creator	likedByAuthor, language, commentUrl, labels
With Add the video's caption	videoCaption

▶️ How to scrape TikTok comments

1. Open TikTok Comments Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Paste links into Video URLs, one per line, ids into Video IDs, or usernames into Profiles.
3. Set Max comments. It is the total for the run, so start at 100 while you look at the output.
4. Switch on Add replies or the extra fields if you want them, then click Start.
5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

Start it with every input box empty and you get one labelled sample row that is not charged.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape TikTok comments?

$0.25 per 1,000 comments on the Free plan. Paid plans pay a little less: $0.248 on Starter, $0.246 on Scale and $0.244 on Business. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 20,000 comments.

You pay for comments delivered, and a reply is a comment. The sample row, diagnostic rows, duplicates caught inside a run and videos a profile setting skipped are not charged. The extra fields and the caption cost nothing more. maxComments is the ceiling on both the rows and the spend.

📥 What you give it

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7654341587425692942"],
  "maxComments": 500,
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 200,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 5
}

Field	Default	What it is
videoUrls	none	Video or photo links, or share links from the app. The form opens with one filled in as an example, which is a starting point rather than a default.
videoIds	none	Or the bare numeric ids, if you already have them. Mix freely with videoUrls.
profiles	none	Usernames or profile links. Each adds that creator's newest public videos.
videosPerProfile	5	How many of each profile's newest videos to read, 1 to 10.
videosPostedAfter, videosPostedBefore	none	Profiles only. Keep videos posted inside these days, in UTC, written like 2026-10-01.
skipPinnedVideos	false	Profiles only. Skips the videos a creator pinned to the top of their profile.
maxComments	100	Comments for the whole run, replies included, 1 to 20,000. This is also your spend cap.
maxCommentsPerVideo	none	A limit for each video instead of an even share of maxComments.
includeReplies	false	Adds the replies under each comment as rows right after it.
maxRepliesPerComment	10	With replies on, how many to take under each comment. 0 means none.
commentDetails	false	Adds likedByAuthor, language, commentUrl and labels.
includeVideoCaption	false	Adds the video's caption to each of its rows.
sessionCookies	none	Optional: your own session, used only for your run. You are responsible for using it within the site's terms. The field is stored encrypted.
proxyConfiguration	off	Leave it off. It is there for people sending traffic through their own servers.
notionConnector, notionParentId	none	Optional. Write each comment into a Notion database as well as the dataset.

A date that cannot be read stops the run before anything is fetched, with one free BAD_INPUT row.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the commenter's name, handle, id and avatar link cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "comment",
  "id": "7654354166756786974",
  "videoId": "7654341587425692942",
  "text": "can you guys stop with this…? it’s genuinely so annoying.",
  "likeCount": 802,
  "replyCount": 50,
  "createTime": "2026-06-22T22:43:50.000Z",
  "images": ["https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-i-bwwwqb46tv-tx2/..."],
  "user": {
    "id": "...",
    "uniqueId": "...",
    "nickname": "...",
    "avatar": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-avt-0068-tx2/...",
    "verified": false,
    "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@..."
  },
  "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7654341587425692942",
  "sourceInput": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7654341587425692942",
  "mentions": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T17:20:05.933Z"
}

Field	How to read it
id	Unique per comment. Use it as your dedupe key across runs.
videoId	The numeric id of the video it came from.
videoUrl	The video's link. From a bare id or a share link it can read https://www.tiktok.com/@/video/<id>, which opens the same video.
replyCount	How many replies sit under the comment, whether or not you asked for them.
mentions	The @handles as written in the text. A name typed with a space in it comes back cut at the space.
replyToCommentId	On a reply, the reply it answers, or the comment itself. Empty when TikTok did not say.
likedByAuthor, language, commentUrl, labels	Empty for a video TikTok did not give them for this run; its comments still came back.
user.avatar	Signed, and it stops working after a while.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Billed
A comment or a reply	ok: true and type: "comment"; a reply also has isReply: true	yes
The sample row	_sample: true, only when the input named nothing	no
A diagnostic	ok: false and an errorCode	no

Filter on type == "comment" and you have your data, replies included; add isReply == false for the top-level comments alone. The sample row only appears when the input named nothing.

Code	What it means
NOT_FOUND	TikTok could not find a video behind that link, which is what a dead share link gives, or there is no account under that username. Check the link.
NO_RESULTS	The video has no comments to read, which usually means they are turned off, or none of a profile's newest videos matched your settings.
RATE_LIMITED	That video would not answer this run. Re-running usually clears it.
NOT_SERVED	This comment was not served this run. Re-run it later. Runs before 13 October 2026 wrote BLOCKED here.
BAD_INPUT	A setting could not be used, or a profile entry is not a username. The row names it.
TIME_LIMIT	The run neared its time limit and stopped, keeping every comment it had delivered. If none had come back by then, the run still ends as succeeded, with an amber status message.
UNEXPECTED_ERROR	The run stopped early on an unexpected error. The results before this row are kept.

Rows about a profile carry a profile field with the username. One quirk of the Overview table: it shows four columns, so the commenter's handle and the timestamp are not in it, and a diagnostic row reads as a nearly blank line. Open the row itself or download the JSON and everything is present.

💡 What people use it for

• Reading what an audience actually said under a launch video instead of guessing from the like count.
• Tracking sentiment on a campaign across the videos that carried it, split by language.
• Finding the questions that keep coming up under a how-to video, and the creator's own answers in the replies.

From a campaign tag to what people said under it, in two runs:

1. Run TikTok Hashtag Scraper on the campaign tag and copy the webVideoUrl column.
2. Paste those links into Video URLs here and read the text column.

🚧 What it does not do

• Replies only when you ask. With Add replies off, replyCount tells you what you are not getting.
• Public videos only. A private or removed video returns a diagnostic row, not comments.
• A profile gives its newest posts only. TikTok shows 9 to 11 on that list, so videosPerProfile stops at 10 and the date settings look only at those.
• The allowance is not redistributed. A quiet video does not pass its leftover share to a busy one.
• Not the whole comment section on a huge video. The run stops at 20,000 comments, and a paging guard stops a video at its own limit, so a video with a million comments will not come back complete.
• The order is TikTok's own, roughly how it ranks them, not strictly newest first.
• No pinned-comment flag. TikTok does not set one we can rely on, so it is left out rather than guessed.
• It is not an official TikTok tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by TikTok, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which TikTok scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Comments under a video	This one
A profile plus its newest videos, or a keyword search	TikTok Scraper
Videos posted under a hashtag	TikTok Hashtag Scraper
Follower and like counts for a list of handles	TikTok Profile Scraper
The spoken words of a video, as text, SRT and VTT	TikTok Transcript Scraper
The hashtags ranking in a country right now	TikTok Trending Hashtags
Comments under a YouTube video	YouTube Comments Scraper
Comments under an Instagram post or reel	Instagram Comments Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a TikTok account to scrape comments?

No. The cookie field is optional.

Can I get the replies under a comment?

Yes. Switch on Add replies. Each reply lands right after its comment with isReply: true, and Max replies per comment keeps one busy thread from using up the run.

Is maxComments per video or per run?

Per run, split across the videos you passed. Set Max comments per video if you want a fixed number from each.

Why are there fewer comments than the count on the video?

TikTok's count includes replies, which come back only with Add replies on. On a very large video the paging guard and your own limit also stop it before the end.

Why did a video return nothing?

Usually comments are turned off, or the video is private or gone. You will see an uncharged row with an errorCode saying which.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

The API tab has code for Python, JavaScript and the CLI. MCP clients like Claude and ChatGPT use https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/tiktok-comments-scraper; coding assistants can load our skill file. All three bill your Apify account at the same price.

Is scraping TikTok comments legal?

This reads comments on public videos only, never private accounts or messages. Results contain personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for collecting it. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Include the video links you used and the run ID, and the log is usually enough for us to see what happened.