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YouTube Comment Scraper

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YouTube Comment Scraper

YouTube Comment Scraper

Under maintenance

Extract 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

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

  1. Open the YouTube Comment Scraper in Apify Console
  2. Paste one or more YouTube video URLs into startUrls
  3. Set maxComments and sortBy (top or newest)
  4. Click Run. When finished, export the dataset to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Input

FieldTypeDescriptionDefault
startUrlsarrayYouTube video URLsnone
maxCommentsintegerMax comments to extract per video200
sortByenumComment sort ordertop

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: newest for real-time monitoring
  • Lower maxComments for 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.