YouTube Comment Scraper
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Pay per usage
YouTube Comment Scraper
Under maintenanceExtract YouTube comments, authors, likes, timestamps, and reply counts from any video. Supports pagination, sort order, and batch video URLs. Perfect for brand monitoring, creator analytics, and audience research.
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Pay per usage
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Josh Pinkerton
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YouTube Comment Scraper
Extract comments, authors, likes, timestamps, and reply counts from YouTube videos without quota limits or API keys.
Why use this scraper?
- Get comments that the YouTube Data API rate-limits or hides
- Export comment threads with reply metadata for sentiment analysis
- Batch-process multiple videos in one run
- No Google Cloud project or API key required
How to use
- Open the YouTube Comment Scraper in Apify Console
- Paste one or more YouTube video URLs into
startUrls - Set
maxCommentsandsortBy(topornewest) - Click Run. When finished, export the dataset to JSON, CSV, or Excel.
Input
| Field | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
startUrls | array | YouTube video URLs | none |
maxComments | integer | Max comments to extract per video | 200 |
sortBy | enum | Comment sort order | top |
Output
{"video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ","comment_id": "UgzYz1234","author": "commenter_name","text": "This video changed my life","likes": 42,"timestamp": "2026-06-01T14:22:00Z","reply_count": 3}
Pricing
Pay-per-event: $0.005 per comment extracted. A 1,000-comment run costs about $5.00.
Tips
- Use
sortBy: newestfor real-time monitoring - Lower
maxCommentsfor faster iteration during development - Combine with an NLP or sentiment pipeline for brand monitoring
FAQ
Does this use the YouTube Data API? No. It extracts public page data directly, so you bypass quotas entirely.
Can I scrape private or unlisted videos? No. Only publicly accessible videos can be scraped.
