# YouTube Comments Scraper — Export Video Comments (`hipersoft/youtube-comments-scraper`) Actor

Scrape all comments from any YouTube video: comment text, author, channel, likes, reply count, published time and verified badge. Sort by top or newest. One clean row per comment as JSON, CSV or Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hipersoft/youtube-comments-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [hiper soft](https://apify.com/hipersoft) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.0005 / comment scraped

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## YouTube Comments Scraper — Export Video Comments

Extract **comments from any YouTube video** at scale. Paste one or more video links (or IDs), pick top or newest, and get one clean row per comment — the comment text, author, channel, like count, reply count, published time and verified badge. Export to **JSON, CSV or Excel**, or pull straight from the API.

Perfect for **audience research, sentiment analysis, creator and competitor monitoring, moderation, market research, and building comment datasets for LLMs**.

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### What you get

One flat, ready-to-use record per comment:

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `videoId` / `videoTitle` / `videoUrl` | The source video |
| `commentId` | Unique comment ID |
| `text` | Full comment text |
| `author` | Commenter's display name |
| `authorChannelId` | Commenter's channel ID |
| `authorIsVerified` | Whether the author is verified |
| `authorAvatar` | Author avatar image URL |
| `likeCount` | Number of likes |
| `replyCount` | Number of replies |
| `publishedTime` | When it was posted (e.g. "3 weeks ago") |
| `collectedAt` | When the row was scraped |

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### How to use

#### 1. Add videos

Paste watch URLs, `youtu.be` links, Shorts URLs, or bare video IDs:

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0"
  ],
  "sort": "top",
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

#### 2. Choose sort & limit

- **Sort comments by** — *Top comments* (most relevant / liked) or *Newest first*.
- **Max comments** — cap the total across all videos (0 = no limit; the scraper pages through the entire comment section).

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### Example output

```json
{
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoTitle": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "commentId": "UgxKREW…",
  "text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
  "author": "@YouTube",
  "authorIsVerified": true,
  "likeCount": 317000,
  "replyCount": 962,
  "publishedTime": "1 year ago",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T04:20:00.000Z"
}
```

***

### Common use cases

- **Audience & sentiment analysis** — understand how viewers react to a video or channel.
- **Creator & competitor monitoring** — track engagement and feedback across videos.
- **Market research** — mine opinions, questions and pain points at scale.
- **Moderation & brand safety** — pull comments for review and filtering.
- **Datasets** — build clean, labelled comment corpora for analysis or model training.

***

### Frequently asked questions

**Do I need any login, account or key?** No. Just paste video links and run.

**How many comments can I get?** Set **Max comments** to whatever you need (0 = no limit) — the scraper pages through the full comment section, top or newest.

**Can I scrape several videos at once?** Yes — list multiple videos and they're all scraped in one run.

**Do you get replies too?** The main comment thread is returned per video; reply threads can be added on request.

**What format is the data?** A flat table you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch from the Apify API.

***

### Related scrapers

Building a YouTube toolkit? Pair this with our YouTube video downloader and other social media scrapers on Apify Store — all with the same clean, one-row-per-item output.

# Actor input Schema

## `videoUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more YouTube videos to scrape comments from. Paste watch URLs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…), youtu.be links, Shorts URLs, or bare 11-character video IDs.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Top comments (most relevant/liked) or newest first.

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

Maximum number of comments to collect across all videos (0 = no limit; collect everything).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "sort": "top",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

The results as dataset items.

# 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 = {
    "videoUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("hipersoft/youtube-comments-scraper").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 = { "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("hipersoft/youtube-comments-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ]
}' |
apify call hipersoft/youtube-comments-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,hipersoft/youtube-comments-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/oNft4YO3eeWR3QK1g/builds/QdHH8PE4p1A5TdK97/openapi.json