# 🎵 TikTok Comments Scraper (`ethereal_wool/tiktok-comments`) Actor

Extract TikTok comments data — text, and more. Scrape by keyword, URL or ID. Export to JSON, CSV & Excel, use the API, schedule runs and integrate. No code required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ethereal\_wool/tiktok-comments.md
- **Developed by:** [Jackie Chen](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

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

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

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````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

## TikTok Video Comments Scraper

![tiktok-comments](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/48FFrfZnw5XqzUC1C/records/tiktok-comments__hero)

Scrape **TikTok video comments** by video ID. Give one or more TikTok video IDs and
the Actor pages through every top-level comment, returning clean, structured data for
each: comment text, like count, reply count, language, author info, and the video URL.
Optionally enriches each comment with its full reply thread.

> **Unofficial.** This Actor is not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by TikTok
> or ByteDance. It is an independent tool that retrieves publicly available data via a
> third-party API. Use it in compliance with TikTok's terms and all applicable laws;
> you are responsible for how you use the retrieved data.

### What it does

- **Comments by video** — give one or more TikTok video IDs (the numeric `aweme_id`);
  the Actor paginates the full comment list for each video.
- **Reply threads (optional)** — for every top-level comment that has replies, fetch
  the nested reply thread, up to a configurable cap.

### How to find a video ID

The `aweme_id` is the number at the end of a TikTok video URL:

````

https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7646496890783010078
└────────┬────────┘
awemeId

````

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `awemeId` | string[] | `["7646496890783010078"]` | TikTok video IDs to scrape comments from. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `10` | Max total comments to scrape across all videos. |
| `includeReplies` | boolean | `false` | Also fetch the reply thread under each comment. |
| `maxRepliesPerComment` | integer | `10` | Cap on replies fetched per comment when enabled. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "awemeId": ["7646496890783010078"],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 20
}
````

### Output

One dataset item per comment:

```json
{
  "commentId": "7647000519323681557",
  "text": "Tiktok has tiktok?",
  "awemeId": "7646496890783010078",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@user214712014847/video/7646496890783010078",
  "createTime": 1780456070,
  "diggCount": 4,
  "replyCommentTotal": 2,
  "isAuthorDigged": false,
  "userDigged": false,
  "replyId": "0",
  "replyToReplyId": "0",
  "commentLanguage": "en",
  "labelList": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "author": {
    "uid": "7534192350139712519",
    "uniqueId": "user214712014847",
    "nickname": "Spok",
    "secUid": "MS4wLjAB..."
  },
  "source": "video:7646496890783010078",
  "replies": []
}
```

When `includeReplies` is enabled, `replies` holds normalized reply objects with the
same shape (and `isReply: true`).

### Notes

- Data is sourced live; TikTok occasionally rate-limits, so the Actor retries
  transient blocks with exponential backoff.
- Comment IDs are de-duplicated within a run.
- Comment counts are large on popular videos (often hundreds or thousands), so set
  `maxItems` to bound the run.

### Quick start

1. Open the Actor and press **Run** — the default input works out of the box.
2. Adjust the input fields below to your target (keywords, IDs, or URLs) and set `maxItems` to cap spend.
3. Grab results from the **Dataset** tab as JSON / CSV / Excel, or pull them via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) and MCP from your own code.

No proxies to configure, no cookies to paste, no login — the Actor handles everything server-side.

### Why teams switch to this TikTok comments scraper

TikTok comments carry the unfiltered audience reaction, and they're what
browser-based scrapers drop most often mid-run. This Actor walks a video's
comment thread via a direct HTTP API and returns every comment with author and
like data as clean JSON at **$1 per 1,000 comments** — roughly 40% below the
big-name TikTok scrapers.

### What people build with it

- **Sentiment analysis** — feed a video's comments to an LLM for a structured
  verdict on how it landed.
- **Voice-of-customer mining** — objections and praise under product and review
  videos, verbatim.
- **Community management** — collect comments across your posts daily and triage
  the questions worth answering.
- **Crisis monitoring** — when a video about your brand takes off, pull comments
  hourly and track rising concerns.
- **Conversation datasets** — author-linked comments make natural dialogue data.

### Tips for better results

- Accepts video URLs straight from the TikTok share button, or bare video IDs.
- Find comment-heavy videos first with
  [TikTok Video Search](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool/tiktok-video-search).
- Join author handles with
  [TikTok Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool/tiktok-profile)
  to profile your most engaged commenters.

***

### Why this Actor

- **Direct API, no headless browser** — fast, stable runs with nothing to babysit.
- **No login, no cookies** — we never touch your accounts, so there's no ban risk.
- **Fresh, real-time data** — every run reads the source live, not a stale cache.
- **Pay per result** — you're billed only for the rows actually delivered.
- **Structured JSON** — export to CSV, Excel, or JSON, or pull straight from the API / MCP.

### Use cases

- Mine audience sentiment and feature requests from real comment threads.
- Surface the most-liked replies and frequent questions under any post.
- Build moderation, UGC, or social-listening datasets at scale.
- Spot superfans and detractors by author and engagement.

### FAQ

**Do I need an account, cookies, or to log in anywhere?**
No. The Actor talks to a fast, direct HTTP API server-side — you just provide inputs and run it.

**How am I billed?**
Pay-per-result: a fixed price per row returned, with no separate platform/compute charge. Caps like `maxItems` keep spend predictable.

**Can I run it on a schedule or call it from my app?**
Yes — use Apify Schedules, the REST API, the JavaScript / Python clients, or the MCP server. See the **API** tab.

**Is this affiliated with TikTok?**
No. It's an independent tool that collects publicly available data. Use it in line with the platform's terms and applicable law.

**What inputs are accepted?** Profile handles/URLs, video URLs, hashtags, or keywords, depending on the Actor — see the Input section above.

### More TikTok scrapers by us

- [**TikTok Shop Products**](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool/tiktok-shop-product-scraper) — Product search · price · sales · shop data
- [**TikTok Video Search**](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool/tiktok-video-search) — Keyword video search · 60+ fields · MP4
- [**TikTok User Posts**](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool/tiktok-user-posts) — Creator post feed · stats · MP4 download
- [**TikTok Hashtag Videos**](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool/tiktok-hashtag-videos) — Videos by hashtag · engagement · MP4
- [**TikTok Profile**](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool/tiktok-profile) — Profile stats · bio · follower counts

Browse the full fleet → **https://apify.com/ethereal\_wool**

# Actor input Schema

## `awemeId` (type: `array`):

One or more TikTok video IDs (the numeric `aweme_id`, e.g. 7646496890783010078). You can find it in the share URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/<this number>. Comments are scraped and paginated for each video.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total number of comments to scrape across all videos.

## `includeReplies` (type: `boolean`):

Also fetch the reply thread under each top-level comment that has replies. Slower and uses more API calls.

## `maxRepliesPerComment` (type: `integer`):

Maximum replies to fetch per comment when 'Include reply threads' is enabled.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Route the upstream API calls through an Apify Proxy to vary the source IP. Usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "awemeId": [
    "7646496890783010078"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "awemeId": [
        "7646496890783010078"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ethereal_wool/tiktok-comments").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 = { "awemeId": ["7646496890783010078"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ethereal_wool/tiktok-comments").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 '{
  "awemeId": [
    "7646496890783010078"
  ]
}' |
apify call ethereal_wool/tiktok-comments --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ethereal_wool/tiktok-comments",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "🎵 TikTok Comments Scraper",
        "description": "Extract TikTok comments data — text, and more. Scrape by keyword, URL or ID. Export to JSON, CSV & Excel, use the API, schedule runs and integrate. No code required.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "VpaXx4nVbn3z0dU3k"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/ethereal_wool~tiktok-comments/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-ethereal_wool-tiktok-comments",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
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                            }
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ethereal_wool~tiktok-comments/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-ethereal_wool-tiktok-comments",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ethereal_wool~tiktok-comments/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-ethereal_wool-tiktok-comments",
                "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"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "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",
                "properties": {
                    "awemeId": {
                        "title": "TikTok video IDs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "One or more TikTok video IDs (the numeric `aweme_id`, e.g. 7646496890783010078). You can find it in the share URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/<this number>. Comments are scraped and paginated for each video.",
                        "default": [
                            "7646496890783010078"
                        ],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max comments",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 100000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum total number of comments to scrape across all videos.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "includeReplies": {
                        "title": "Include reply threads",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Also fetch the reply thread under each top-level comment that has replies. Slower and uses more API calls.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "maxRepliesPerComment": {
                        "title": "Max replies per comment",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum replies to fetch per comment when 'Include reply threads' is enabled.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Optional. Route the upstream API calls through an Apify Proxy to vary the source IP. Usually not needed.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": false
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "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
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```