YouTube Comments Scraper — comments and replies, no API key

YouTube Comments Scraper extracts comments and replies from any YouTube video — top or newest — with author, likes, reply counts and timestamps. No login, no cookies and no YouTube API key or quota. Bulk video lists supported. Export JSON, CSV or Excel.

What does it do?

Paste video URLs (watch, Shorts, youtu.be) or IDs and get one flat row per comment. Use it for sentiment analysis, audience research, community and brand monitoring, finding questions and ideas in comment threads, and building comment datasets for AI.

Features

• Scrape YouTube comments in bulk from many videos in one run.
• Top or newest sorting (sort).
• Replies (includeReplies, maxRepliesPerComment) linked to their parent comment (parentId).
• Fields: comment text, author handle and channel ID/URL, likes, reply count, relative publish time, verified/creator flags, hearted-by-creator flag.
• Per-video cap (maxCommentsPerVideo), overall cap (maxItems), incremental mode (onlyNew) for monitoring.
• Videos with comments disabled return a free status row instead of failing the run.

How to scrape YouTube comments

1. Add video URLs or IDs.
2. Choose top/newest, how many comments per video and whether to include replies.
3. Run and export the dataset.

Input

videoUrls, sort, maxCommentsPerVideo, includeReplies, maxRepliesPerComment, maxItems (default 100), onlyNew, maxConcurrency, proxyConfiguration.

Example output (real run)

{
  "id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
  "author": "@YouTube",
  "authorChannelId": "UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ",
  "authorIsVerified": true,
  "authorIsCreator": false,
  "likes": 322000,
  "replyCount": 962,
  "publishedTime": "1 year ago",
  "isReply": false,
  "heartedByCreator": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T19:34:02.618283+00:00",
  "schemaVersion": 1
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $1.30 per 1,000 comments ($0.0013 each). Videos with comments disabled and errors are free.

Use cases

Sentiment analysis · customer-feedback mining · influencer and competitor monitoring · FAQ and idea discovery · AI training data.

FAQ

Do I need the YouTube Data API? No — no key, no quota. Can I get replies? Yes, switch on includeReplies. How many comments per video? Set maxCommentsPerVideo; thousands are possible, billed per comment.

Limitations

Videos with comments disabled return a free status row. Like counts are approximate for large numbers (YouTube shows 1.2K). Replies are capped per comment by maxRepliesPerComment.

Also useful for

Extract YouTube comments and replies in bulk — a comments scraper and downloader for any video, exported to JSON, CSV or Excel without an API key.

Is it legal? No login, no cookies

This Actor only reads publicly available pages. It never asks for a cookie, password or account and does not access private data. You are responsible for using the data in line with the source site's terms and applicable law (GDPR/CCPA for personal data).

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