YouTube Community Posts, Polls & Comments Scraper

Read a YouTube channel's Posts (Community) tab — or a single post URL — and get clean records for text posts, image carousels, shared videos, polls, quizzes, playlists and reposts. Exact publish dates and like counts, comment counts and comment threads are available without logging in.

What this actor does

• Three modes: channelPosts reads a channel feed, postDetails enriches one post per URL or ID, and postComments returns one row per comment.
• Every public post type: text, single image, image carousel, shared video, text poll, image poll, quiz, shared playlist and repost with the original post's content and attachments.
• Exact engagement: exact ISO publish date, exact like count and exact comment count when details are enabled; the text YouTube displays is kept too.
• Comments that work: up to 1,000 top-level comments per post, Top or Newest order, and optional replies.
• Filters (in channelPosts mode): post type, keyword and exact publish-date range.
• Clean output: one best-resolution URL per image, resolved external links, hashtags and normalized UTC dates. Empty fields are omitted.

Output per post

• recordType — community_post for a post, comment in postComments mode, or status for an explanatory row
• postId, postUrl — YouTube's post ID and canonical link
• postType — text, image, video, poll, quiz, playlist or shared
• channelId, channelName, channelHandle, channelUrl — the channel whose tab was read
• channelSubscriberCountText — subscriber label shown on the channel page
• authorName — the post or repost author
• contentText — post text as YouTube displays it; a long URL may be shortened here, with the full target in links[]
• links[] — full external URLs found in the post text
• hashtags[] — hashtags found in the post text
• publishedTimeText, isEdited — relative label and edited marker
• publishedAt — exact ISO 8601 UTC publish date (details on)
• voteCountText, likeCount — displayed likes and exact likes
• commentCountText, commentCount — displayed and exact comment counts
• commentsDisabled — present when the creator turned comments off
• images[], imageDetails[] — one best-resolution URL per image, with dimensions
• videoAttachments[] — shared video ID, title, URL, thumbnail, description, views, length, owner and badges
• poll — pollChoices, optional pollOptions with images, total votes text and parsed approximate total
• quiz — choices with isCorrect and explanation, plus total answers
• playlist — playlist ID, title, video count, URL and thumbnail
• sharedPost — a repost's original post: author, text, date label, likes label and attachments
• isMembership — present only when YouTube exposes a members-only badge
• commentPreview[] — first three comments when details are on but full comments are not requested
• comments[] — comment rows with author, text, time, likes, reply count and optional replies[]
• scrapedAt — ISO 8601 scrape timestamp

Output per comment (postComments mode)

One row per top-level comment and, when enabled, one row per reply:

• recordType — comment
• postId, postUrl, channelId, channelName, channelHandle, channelUrl
• commentId, parentCommentId, replyLevel
• authorName, authorChannelId, authorChannelUrl, authorHandle
• text, publishedTimeText, likeCountText, replyCount
• isCreator, isVerified, isPinned, isHearted
• scrapedAt

Status rows use recordType: "status" with a status value such as channel_not_found, no_community_tab, post_not_found or comments_disabled.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	channelPosts	channelPosts, postDetails or postComments
urls	array	–	Channel URLs/handles/IDs, or post URLs/IDs for the post modes
maxPosts	integer	100	Maximum posts per channel in channelPosts mode, or per run in the post modes (1–200).
postTypes	array	[]	channelPosts only: keep text/image/video/poll/quiz/playlist/shared posts
keyword	string	–	channelPosts only: keep posts whose text contains this phrase
publishedAfter	string	–	channelPosts only: keep posts published on or after this date
publishedBefore	string	–	channelPosts only: keep posts published on or before this date
includeDetails	boolean	true	channelPosts only: fetch exact date, likes, comment count and a 3-comment preview. postDetails always returns details.
includeComments	boolean	false	Include comment threads in channelPosts and postDetails; postComments always returns comments
maxComments	integer	100	Maximum top-level comments per post (1–1,000)
includeReplies	boolean	false	Include replies under comments
maxRepliesPerComment	integer	10	Maximum replies per comment (1–100)
commentSort	string	top	top or newest when comments are requested
market	string	US	Country used for YouTube's localized labels
language	string	en	Interface language for relative times and labels

Example: recent posts from two channels

{
  "mode": "channelPosts",
  "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast", "@GoodMythicalMorning"],
  "maxPosts": 20
}

Example: polls and quizzes only

{
  "mode": "channelPosts",
  "urls": ["@veritasium", "@watchmojo"],
  "postTypes": ["poll", "quiz"],
  "maxPosts": 50
}

Example: exact date range with comments

{
  "mode": "channelPosts",
  "urls": ["@MrBeast"],
  "publishedAfter": "2026-08-01",
  "publishedBefore": "2026-10-01",
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxComments": 100,
  "commentSort": "newest"
}

Example: one post by URL, with replies

{
  "mode": "postDetails",
  "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxZusu9I1Z-VuU5PGZNA2gclHi8V9CJVZk"],
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxComments": 200,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 20
}

Example: comments as one row per comment

{
  "mode": "postComments",
  "urls": ["UgkxZusu9I1Z-VuU5PGZNA2gclHi8V9CJVZk"],
  "maxComments": 500,
  "commentSort": "newest"
}

Use cases

• Creator agencies — track announcements, product drops and audience polls across a roster of channels
• Social listening — export poll choices, post text and comment sentiment for brand monitoring
• Competitive research — compare engagement and posting cadence across creators
• Content archiving — save time-limited Community posts with images, links and comments
• AI datasets — collect clean creator text, quizzes and threaded comments
• Community management — monitor new comments on a post without opening YouTube

FAQ

What is a Community post? Any text update, image, image carousel, shared video, poll, quiz, playlist or repost a channel publishes to its Posts tab — the feed that sits beside Videos and Shorts.

Do I need to log in or provide cookies? No. The actor reads the same public pages a logged-out visitor sees. Posts that a creator restricted to channel members are not visible without a membership, so they are not returned.

Why does a channel stop at 200 posts? YouTube's Posts tab only serves the newest 200 posts. There is no public way to page further back. If you already have an older post URL or ID, the postDetails and postComments modes can still read it.

Why are poll percentages missing? YouTube only reveals per-choice votes and percentages to signed-in viewers who voted in that poll. Logged out, the page carries the choices and a rounded total vote count, which the actor returns.

Are like and comment counts exact? Yes when includeDetails is on: the actor reads YouTube's exact counters. Counts are a point-in-time snapshot and can change after the scrape. When details are off, only the display text such as 147K is available. Reposts do not have their own like or comment counters.

Can I get every comment on a post? Up to maxComments top-level comments. YouTube's featured-comment feed is finite; for deeper requests the actor continues with the newest-comment feed and removes duplicates. includeReplies adds reply threads.

Why does a post have no comment count? The creator turned comments off. The record then carries commentsDisabled: true instead of inventing zero.

Does the market or language field translate post text? No. It changes YouTube's own labels and relative times, never the creator's text.

Can I filter by date, type or keyword? Yes, in channelPosts mode. publishedAfter and publishedBefore use the exact publish date, postTypes filters attachments, and keyword matches the post text case-insensitively. The post modes process the URLs/IDs you give them directly.

Is this affiliated with YouTube? No. This is an independent third-party actor that reads public YouTube pages and is not operated by or affiliated with YouTube or Google.