# YouTube Community Posts Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥💬📺 (`delectable_incubator/youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

📺 Scrape YouTube Community posts from any channel. Extract post text, images, polls, likes, comments, publish dates, attachments, post URLs & more. Perfect for social media monitoring, audience engagement analysis, creator research, AI datasets and marketing intelligence.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

<p align="center">
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="YouTube Community Posts Scraper" width="100%">
</p>

---

## 💬📺 YouTube Community Posts Scraper | Bulk Community Posts Extractor | Apify Actor

### 🚀 Extract YouTube Community Posts in Seconds (No Code)

The **YouTube Community Posts Scraper** is a powerful, scalable and SEO-optimized Apify Actor that extracts **community posts from YouTube channels** in bulk. Collect posts, engagement metrics, images, polls, videos and attachments for content research, social media analytics, AI datasets, marketing intelligence and audience engagement analysis.

---

## 🔥 Why Choose This YouTube Community Posts Scraper?

✔ Best YouTube Community Posts Scraper on Apify

✔ Supports Bulk Channel URL scraping

✔ Fast & scalable extraction engine

✔ Clean structured JSON / CSV / Excel output

✔ Perfect for creators, marketers & researchers

✔ Great for engagement analysis

✔ No coding required

---

## 🎯 What This Scraper Does

This Apify Actor extracts community posts directly from YouTube channels.

#### 📌 Core Features

✅ Scrape YouTube Community Posts

✅ Bulk Channel URL scraping

✅ Automatic pagination

✅ Extract full post text

✅ Extract author information

✅ Extract publication date

✅ Extract likes & comments

✅ Extract poll choices

✅ Extract attached images

✅ Extract video thumbnails

✅ Extract attachment types

✅ Export clean structured datasets

---

## ⚡ Input Configuration

### 🔥 BULK CHANNEL URL MODE (SEO BOOST 🚀)

````

{
"channelLinks": \[
"https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast",
"https://www.youtube.com/@NASA",
"https://www.youtube.com/@Google",
"https://www.youtube.com/@Apple",
"https://www.youtube.com/@Rihanna",
"https://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI"
],
"maxItems": 100
}

```

Simply paste as many YouTube channel URLs as you want. The scraper automatically extracts community posts from every channel.

---

## 📊 Extracted Community Post Data

| Field | Description |
|------|-------------|
| postId | Unique post ID |
| author | Channel name |
| authorUrl | Channel URL |
| text | Community post text |
| publishedTime | Publication date |
| likeCount | Number of likes |
| commentCount | Number of comments |
| pollChoices | Poll options |
| videoThumbnail | Video thumbnail |
| images | Attached images |
| attachmentType | Image, Video, Poll, Link |

---

## 💡 Use Cases

Perfect for:

📺 YouTube content research

📊 Social media analytics

💬 Audience engagement analysis

📈 Marketing intelligence

🤖 AI training datasets

🔍 Competitor monitoring

📱 Creator performance tracking

💡 Content inspiration

🌍 Social media data aggregation

---

## 🚀 Key Features

⚡ Bulk Channel URL scraping

📺 Works with public YouTube channels

📌 Smart pagination

🧠 Clean structured datasets

📊 High-speed extraction

🔁 Automatic retry system

💾 Export-ready data

⚙️ Enterprise cloud execution

---

## 📤 Supported Export Formats

✔ JSON

✔ CSV

✔ Excel (XLSX)

✔ XML

✔ HTML

---

## 📦 Example Output

```

\[
{
"postId": "Ugkx604R2aca-PSQVk4r-lzGr8ZAreFU5Lz-",
"author": "SEGA",
"authorUrl": "/@SEGA\_West",
"text": "The Year of the Snake sale is here! 🐍",
"publishedTime": "1 month ago",
"likeCount": "3.8K",
"commentCount": "120",
"pollChoices": \[
"Yes",
"No"
],
"videoThumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/example\_video\_thumbnail.jpg",
"images": \[
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/example\_image\_1.jpg",
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/example\_image\_2.jpg"
],
"attachmentType": "image"
}
]

````

---

## 🔥 Why This is the BEST YouTube Community Posts Scraper on Apify?

✔ Optimized for Apify Marketplace SEO

✔ Supports Bulk Channel URL scraping

✔ Enterprise-grade performance

✔ Reliable extraction engine

✔ Clean structured datasets

✔ Cloud scalable

✔ Perfect for creators, agencies, researchers and businesses

---

## 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay-per-result pricing model**.

You only pay for successfully extracted records.

💳 **Price:** **$1.49 / 1,000 results**

---

## ❓ FAQ

#### Can I scrape multiple YouTube channels?

Yes. Bulk Channel URL mode lets you scrape unlimited YouTube channels in one run.

#### Can I extract polls, images and videos?

Yes. The scraper extracts polls, attached images, video thumbnails and attachment types whenever available.

#### Is pagination automatic?

Yes. The Actor automatically collects community posts until the requested limit is reached.

#### Can I export the data?

Yes. JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML formats are supported.

#### Is coding required?

No. This is a 100% no-code Apify Actor.

---

## ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is not affiliated with YouTube or Google. It is an independent data extraction solution.

---

## 🔗 Related Actors

We are building the complete **PrimeScrape YouTube Intelligence Suite** featuring YouTube videos, Shorts, playlists, transcripts, channels, comments, hashtags, emails, community posts and creator analytics.

More premium YouTube scraping tools are coming soon.

---

## 🌍 PrimeScrape Ecosystem

Built for large-scale data extraction, automation, AI datasets and market intelligence.

📺 YouTube Intelligence

💬 Community Analytics

📈 Social Media Research

🤖 AI Training Datasets

📊 Creator Analytics

⚙️ Automation Pipelines

🌍 Enterprise Data Collection

---

## 📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review if you enjoy this scraper.

📩 Need a custom scraper, enterprise integration or private dataset?

Contact **PrimeScrape** directly through Apify.

# Actor input Schema

## `channelUrls` (type: `array`):

List of YouTube channel URLs to scrape Community Posts from (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/@rihanna). Each channel is scraped separately, up to maxItemsPerChannel posts per channel.
## `maxItemsPerChannel` (type: `integer`):

Specify the maximum number of Community Posts to scrape per channel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@rihanna"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerChannel": 100
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channelUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@rihanna"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerChannel": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@rihanna"],
    "maxItemsPerChannel": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@rihanna"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerChannel": 100
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "YouTube Community Posts Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥💬📺",
        "description": "📺 Scrape YouTube Community posts from any channel. Extract post text, images, polls, likes, comments, publish dates, attachments, post URLs & more. Perfect for social media monitoring, audience engagement analysis, creator research, AI datasets and marketing intelligence.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "sIcFZGPuECnSRmGS2"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-delectable_incubator-youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-delectable_incubator-youtube-community-posts-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
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                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "channelUrls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "channelUrls": {
                        "title": "YouTube channel URLs 🌐",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of YouTube channel URLs to scrape Community Posts from (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/@rihanna). Each channel is scraped separately, up to maxItemsPerChannel posts per channel.",
                        "default": [
                            "https://www.youtube.com/@rihanna"
                        ],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxItemsPerChannel": {
                        "title": "Maximum Community Posts per channel 🎬 (Latest posts will be scraped)",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Specify the maximum number of Community Posts to scrape per channel.",
                        "default": 100
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
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                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
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                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
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                                "type": "string",
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                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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}
```