YouTube Video Comments Scraper

Get comments (comment threads) from a YouTube video. Returns each comment's text, author, like count, reply count, publication date, a direct link, and up to 5 preview replies. Supports sorting by most recent or relevance, and fetching up to 10 pages in a single call.

Features

• Real-time YouTube data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
url	string	yes	YouTube video URL or 11-character video ID
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch and merge (1-10). Each page returns up to ~100 comments. Billed per page.
sort_by	string	no	Sort order One of: most_recent, relevance.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per page of results — $0.005 per page.

• Results come in pages. Use the pages input to choose how many pages to fetch (1–10); more pages means more results.
• You pay $0.005 for each page you fetch, so pages: 3 costs $0.015 and pages: 1 costs $0.005.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "comments": [
    {
      "comment_id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
      "text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
      "author": "@YouTube",
      "author_channel_id": "UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ",
      "author_channel_url": "http://www.youtube.com/@YouTube",
      "author_thumbnail": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/.../photo.jpg",
      "likes": 261929,
      "reply_count": 1000,
      "date": "2025-04-22 19:05:08",
      "updated_date": "2025-04-22 19:05:08",
      "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lc=Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
      "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "channel_id": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "replies": [
        {
          "comment_id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg.AHE8_QAWJx9AHE9eIiztxR",
          "text": "YOUTUBE AND ONE LIKE WOOHAAAAH",
          "author": "@linganguliguliwatcha",
          "author_channel_id": "UCjFRISlX-LPxiqViJAE3h6Q",
          "author_channel_url": "http://www.youtube.com/@linganguliguliwatcha",
          "author_thumbnail": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/.../photo.jpg",
          "likes": 7026,
          "date": "2025-04-22 19:14:32",
          "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lc=Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg.AHE8_QAWJx9AHE9eIiztxR",
          "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "pages": 1,
  "count": 100
}

About

Maintained by Data Direct — a small suite of fast, reliable YouTube and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.