YouTube Comments Scraper 📺💬

Extract comments from any YouTube video efficiently and reliably. This actor helps you gather valuable user feedback and engagement data from YouTube videos.

Features ✨

• 🎯 Scrape comments from any public YouTube video
• 📊 Collect comprehensive comment data including:
  • Comment text
  • Author information
  • Likes count
  • Timestamps
  • Reply counts
• ⚡ Fast and efficient pagination handling
• 🔄 Automatic retry mechanism
• 🎚️ Configurable maximum items limit
• 🤖 Built-in anti-detection mechanisms
• 🎯 Random delays to avoid rate limiting

Use Cases 🎯

• 📈 Social media engagement analysis
• 🔍 Market research and user feedback collection
• 💡 Content strategy optimization
• 📊 Sentiment analysis
• 🎯 Competitor analysis
• 🔬 Academic research

Input Parameters 📝

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• videoUrls: Array of YouTube video URLs to scrape comments from
• maxItems: Maximum number of comments to collect

Output 📤

The actor stores results in dataset, with each record containing:

• Comment ID
• Comment text
• Author name
• Timestamp
• Likes count
• Reply count
• And more...

Need custom solutions or modifications? Feel free to reach out!

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
    "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hql6k88BKP8"],
    "maxItems": 30
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
	{
		"authorChannelId": "UCz3w4reqgKX2KlFK-yu05Vg",
		"authorDisplayName": "@HomeOfKnockouts",
		"id": "UgxMUiMBi4jbBjCzALB4AaABAg",
		"isPublic": true,
		"likeCount": 1,
		"publishedAt": "2021-05-11T11:47:04",
		"textDisplay": "First",
		"totalReplyCount": 2,
		"videoId": "hql6k88BKP8"
	},
	{
		"authorChannelId": "UC9LsnGN_JfHUo8EaemR1E9w",
		"authorDisplayName": "@baseballlife_1013",
		"id": "UgxFrxqwfvFTa5vdjIZ4AaABAg",
		"isPublic": true,
		"likeCount": 7,
		"publishedAt": "2021-05-11T11:47:31",
		"textDisplay": "Hi I have a question. How to I keep my eyes able to put contacts in without hurting during allergie season",
		"totalReplyCount": 3,
		"videoId": "hql6k88BKP8"
	},
    ...
]