TikTok Comments Scraper: comments, replies, likes, and authors from any video

TikTok Comments Scraper collects the public comments of TikTok videos and photo posts. For every comment you get the text, its language, the publish date, likes, the reply count, the author's username, display name, and avatar, users mentioned in it, attached images, and whether the creator liked or pinned it. Turn on replies to get each thread too, with every reply linked to the comment it answers.

You don't need a TikTok account, an API key, or any code. Paste the post links, press Start, and download the comments as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML. Or pull them straight into your app through the Apify API.

What can you do with TikTok comments?

• Measure how people react. Read what viewers say about your video, a competitor's campaign, or a product launch, and run sentiment analysis on the text.
• Find questions and complaints. Comments are where buyers ask about price, sizes, and shipping. Pull them into a spreadsheet and answer in bulk.
• Spot your most engaged fans. Sort by likes and replies to find the commenters who drive the conversation, then reach out to them.
• Check a creator before a deal. Real comments tell you more about an audience than follower counts do.
• Run giveaways. Collect every comment on a giveaway post and pick a winner from the list.
• Build datasets. Export thousands of comments in many languages for research or model training.

What data does TikTok Comments Scraper extract?

Group	Fields
Comment	comment ID, text, detected language, publish time (Unix and ISO 8601), likes, reply count
Thread	type (comment or reply), the ID of the comment a reply answers
Author	user ID, username, display name, profile URL, avatar
Creator signals	liked by the creator, pinned by the creator
Mentions	users tagged in the comment, with user ID and secUid
Media	images attached to the comment
Post	post ID, post URL, and the input that led to it

How to scrape TikTok comments

1. Open the actor and go to the Input tab.
2. Paste one or more post links. Full links, short links such as vm.tiktok.com/..., and bare post IDs all work.
3. Set Comments per post, and Replies per comment if you want threads.
4. Press Start. When the run finishes, open the Output tab to preview the table, or press Export to download the data.

Input

Field	Type	Description
postURLs	array of strings	TikTok video or photo links, short links, or post IDs. Required.
commentsPerPost	integer	The maximum number of top-level comments per post. Replies don't count toward it.
maxRepliesPerComment	integer	The maximum number of replies per comment, replies to replies included. 0 skips replies.
proxyCountryCode	string	A two-letter country code such as US or DE to use Apify residential proxy in that country. None uses Apify datacenter proxy.

Input example

{
  "postURLs": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@yycats8/video/7583279464440777998",
    "https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMhabc123/",
    "7693138745406524673"
  ],
  "commentsPerPost": 500,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 20,
  "proxyCountryCode": "None"
}

Output

Every comment and every reply becomes one row. Replies come right after the comment they belong to, so the table reads like the thread on TikTok. Rebuild the tree with repliesToId: it holds the cid of the comment or reply each reply answers.

Output example

A real comment from a cat video and its reply. The avatar links are shortened.

[
  {
    "type": "comment",
    "cid": "7583326235120616248",
    "postId": "7583279464440777998",
    "postUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@yycats8/video/7583279464440777998",
    "text": "donde estaba mi michi",
    "language": "es",
    "createTime": 1765630738,
    "createTimeISO": "2025-12-13T12:58:58.000Z",
    "diggCount": 11,
    "replyCommentTotal": 1,
    "uid": "7433577230121354246",
    "uniqueId": "martha.estrada.ma1",
    "nickname": "Martha Estrada Maturano",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@martha.estrada.ma1",
    "avatarThumbnail": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-eu.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/1a02acb...",
    "likedByAuthor": false,
    "pinnedByAuthor": false,
    "mentions": [],
    "detailedMentions": [],
    "input": "https://www.tiktok.com/@yycats8/video/7583279464440777998"
  },
  {
    "type": "reply",
    "cid": "7583405270299902733",
    "postId": "7583279464440777998",
    "postUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@yycats8/video/7583279464440777998",
    "text": "😳😳😳😂😂😂😂 ay el michi ahi viene",
    "language": "es",
    "createTime": 1765649172,
    "createTimeISO": "2025-12-13T18:06:12.000Z",
    "diggCount": 0,
    "replyCommentTotal": 0,
    "repliesToId": "7583326235120616248",
    "uid": "7422052881577362478",
    "uniqueId": "gas3242",
    "nickname": "gas",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@gas3242",
    "avatarThumbnail": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-eu.com/musically-maliva-obj/159480...",
    "likedByAuthor": false,
    "pinnedByAuthor": false,
    "mentions": [],
    "detailedMentions": [],
    "input": "https://www.tiktok.com/@yycats8/video/7583279464440777998"
  }
]

Output fields

Field	Description
type	comment for a top-level comment, reply for a reply.
cid	TikTok comment ID.
postId, postUrl	The post the comment belongs to. When the input is a bare post ID, the URL has no username in it (https://www.tiktok.com/@/video/...) and still opens the post.
text	The comment text. TikTok's emoji stickers show as their names in brackets, for example [Laugh approved].
language	The language TikTok detected. un means TikTok couldn't tell.
createTime, createTimeISO	Publish time as a Unix timestamp and as an ISO 8601 string in UTC.
diggCount	Likes.
replyCommentTotal	How many replies TikTok counts under the comment. 0 for replies.
repliesToId	For replies, the cid of the comment or reply this one answers.
uid, uniqueId, nickname, profileUrl, avatarThumbnail	The author: user ID, username, display name, profile link, and avatar.
likedByAuthor	true when the creator of the post liked the comment.
pinnedByAuthor	true when the creator pinned the comment.
mentions, detailedMentions	Users tagged in the comment, as the comment shows them, with user ID and secUid.
images	Images attached to the comment.
input	The link or ID from your input.

How many comments can I get?

In our tests, the actor collected 4,796 of the 5,600 comments on a busy video in 37 seconds, and 40 comments with 1,509 replies in 18 seconds. TikTok's comment feed has gaps: a page can come back empty while later pages are full again. The actor skips over these gaps, which is how it gets far past the first few hundred comments. It stops after several empty pages in a row, so expect most, but not always all, of a post's comments.

Replies to replies count toward Replies per comment, and TikTok's reply count doesn't always match the replies it serves.

How much does it cost?

You pay $0.30 per 1,000 rows, where each comment and each reply is one row. 1,000 comments without replies cost $0.30.

The actor reads TikTok's comment data directly, with no browser, so it runs on 128 MB of memory and finishes fast.

Export and integrations

The results go into an Apify dataset. From there you can:

• download them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, or RSS from the Output tab;
• send them to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, and other tools through Apify integrations;
• schedule runs to watch new comments on your posts;
• start runs and read the results from your own code through the Apify API.

Run it through the API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<username>~tiktok-comments-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"postURLs": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@yycats8/video/7583279464440777998"], "commentsPerPost": 100}'

The call waits for the run to finish and returns the comments as a JSON array.

FAQ

Do I need a TikTok account?

No. The actor reads the comments TikTok shows to anyone who opens the video without logging in.

Can I scrape the videos themselves?

Not with this actor. Use a TikTok video scraper to collect posts by hashtag or profile, then paste their links here.

Why did I get fewer comments than the post shows?

TikTok's count includes comments it hides, deletes, or filters, and its feed has gaps the actor can't fill. On busy posts expect most of the comments rather than every single one.

Why do avatar and image links stop working?

TikTok signs these links for a few hours. Download the files soon after the run if you need to keep them.

Is it legal to scrape TikTok comments?

The actor collects only public data that anyone can see without logging in. Comments still contain personal data such as usernames, so make sure you have a legitimate reason to collect it and follow the GDPR and other laws that apply to you. If you're not sure, ask a lawyer.

Disclaimer

This actor is provided as is, without warranty. You're responsible for how you use it and for following TikTok's terms of service and the laws that apply to you. TikTok isn't affiliated with this actor.