YouTube Comments Scraper – Comments & Replies, No API Key
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 comments
Scrape comments from any YouTube video as clean JSON: text, author, likes, reply counts, pinned and creator-hearted flags. Sort by top or newest, include replies, and set a limit per video. No API key, quotas or login. You pay only for comments returned.
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