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YouTube Comments Scraper: Replies, Shorts & Video Comments

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Scrape YouTube comments and replies, no login or API key: a YouTube comment scraper and comments extractor for video, Shorts and community post URLs, a channel, playlist or search. Full text, author, likes, reply count, date, pinned and hearted flags, the exact comment count. Newest or top.

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from $0.90 / 1,000 comments

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Developer

Hyperbach

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Monthly active users

4 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

Videos

Automation

type

Optional

comment (a top-level comment, charged), reply (a reply to a comment, charged as a reply), or a free summary row: video or post (one per video or community post: its status, what was read, the exact count, the verdict), list (one per channel, playlist or search input), input (a value that names nothing).

Type:string | null

status

Optional

A comment or reply: ok. A video or post row: ok (its comments were read; see verdict), comments_off (the creator turned them off), not_found (no video with that id: two reads agree), upcoming (a premiere or stream not started), members_only, live (a live stream: its chat is not comments), no_comments, failed (YouTube served the video and no comments list, or refused it), not_read (maxItems, the charge limit or the time limit came first). A list row: ok, not_found, failed, not_read. An input row: invalid.

Type:string | null

comment_id

Optional

YouTube's comment id (a reply's id is its parent's id, a dot and its own); the de-duplication key: one row and one charge per comment a run.

Type:string | null

comment_url

Optional

The comment on YouTube: the video's URL with &lc=<comment id> (YouTube opens the page with this comment on top), or the post's ?lc=.

Type:string | null

parent_id

Optional

On a reply: the id of the comment it answers; null on a comment.

Type:string | null

reply_level

Optional

0 for a comment, 1 for a reply (YouTube nests one level).

Type:integer | null

position

Optional

1-based place in the video's list in the order read (sort); a reply's place in its thread.

Type:integer | null

text

Optional

The whole comment as YouTube shows it, emoji and line breaks kept.

Type:string | null

author_handle

Optional

The author's @handle (YouTube shows no other name on a comment).

Type:string | null

author_channel_id

Optional

The author's channel id (UC…).

Type:string | null

author_channel_url

Optional

The author's channel on YouTube.

Type:string | null

author_avatar_url

Optional

The author's avatar image URL (not downloaded).

Type:string | null

author_is_creator

Optional

True when the video's (or post's) own channel wrote it, read from YouTube's own flag on the comment.

Type:boolean | null

author_is_verified

Optional

True when the author has YouTube's verified badge.

Type:boolean | null

author_is_artist

Optional

True when the author is an official artist channel.

Type:boolean | null

likes

Optional

The likes as a number: exact below 1,000; past it YouTube shows only a rounded text ("1.6K"), read as 1,600 with likes_exact false. 0 when YouTube shows none.

Type:integer | null

likes_text

Optional

The likes exactly as YouTube writes them ("285", "1.6K", "568K"); null for 0.

Type:string | null

likes_exact

Optional

False when YouTube rounded the likes (1,000 and more).

Type:boolean | null

reply_count

Optional

The replies YouTube says the comment has: exact below 1,000, rounded past it ("1K").

Type:integer | null

reply_count_text

Optional

The reply count as YouTube writes it; null for none.

Type:string | null

reply_count_exact

Optional

False when YouTube rounded the reply count.

Type:boolean | null

published_text

Optional

When it was posted, as YouTube writes it logged out ("3 weeks ago", "1 year ago (edited)"); YouTube serves no exact time without an account.

Type:string | null

published_at_approx

Optional

The approximate time from the text and the read time: the read time minus the stated age ("3 weeks ago" = 21 days before the read); null when the text is not in English.

Type:string | null

published_after

Optional

The earliest time the text allows ("3 weeks ago": 28 days before the read).

Type:string | null

published_before

Optional

The latest time the text allows ("3 weeks ago": 21 days before the read).

Type:string | null

published_at_is_estimated

Optional

True on every row with a computed date: it comes from YouTube's relative text, not from an exact time.

Type:boolean | null

is_edited

Optional

True when YouTube marks the comment "(edited)".

Type:boolean | null

is_pinned

Optional

True on the comment the creator pinned (YouTube's own pin on that comment).

Type:boolean | null

is_hearted

Optional

True when the creator gave the comment a heart, read from that comment's own toolbar.

Type:boolean | null

links

Optional

Every link in the text, as its real URL (YouTube's redirect unwrapped).

Type:array | null

mentions

Optional

Every channel the text @mentions: {handle, channel_id, url}.

Type:array | null

timestamps

Optional

The video times the text links to, in seconds (a "2:15" in a comment).

Type:array | null

video_id

Optional

The video's 11-character id; null on a post's rows.

Type:string | null

video_url

Optional

The video on YouTube.

Type:string | null

video_title

Optional

The video's title as YouTube shows it.

Type:string | null

video_channel_id

Optional

The channel that published the video (or the channel of a channel input).

Type:string | null

video_channel_name

Optional

The publishing channel's name.

Type:string | null

video_published_text

Optional

The video's date as YouTube's watch page shows it ("Jun 16, 2024").

Type:string | null

video_comment_count

Optional

The video's (or post's) exact comment count from YouTube's own comments header ("2,460,185 Comments"; the page rounds it to "2.4M"). It counts replies too.

Type:integer | null

post_id

Optional

The community post's id, on a post's rows.

Type:string | null

post_url

Optional

The community post on YouTube.

Type:string | null

sort

Optional

newest or top: the order the comments were read in.

Type:string | null

verdict

Optional

On a video or post row: COMPLETE (the list's end), TRUNCATED (YouTube's own list ended well before the count, as Top does on a famous video), CAPPED (maxComments, maxItems, the date cut-off or onlyNew came first), PARTIAL (stopped by an error or the time limit). On a list row: COMPLETE or CAPPED at maxVideos.

Type:string | null

comments_read

Optional

On a video or post row: the comments delivered from it.

Type:integer | null

replies_read

Optional

On a video or post row: the replies delivered from it (null when Replies is off).

Type:integer | null

coverage

Optional

On a video or post row: (comments + replies delivered) ÷ the exact count.

Type:number | null

pages_read

Optional

On a video or post row: the comment pages read (20 comments a page).

Type:integer | null

videos_found

Optional

On a list row: the videos (and posts) the channel, playlist or search gave.

Type:integer | null

input

Optional

The value you gave that led to this row.

Type:string | null

input_type

Optional

video, post, channel, playlist, search or invalid.

Type:string | null

search_country

Optional

On rows from a keyword search: the country the search was read from (YouTube's own answer names it; a search served from another country is asked again on a fresh exit, then a free failed row).

Type:string | null

note

Optional

Why, in words: the reason of a free row, what a walk did not read and why.

Type:string | null

scraped_at

Optional

When the row was read (UTC).

Type:string | null

error

Optional

true on the one row a rejected input writes; absent on a result row

Type:boolean | null

code

Optional

why the input was rejected, as a code (INPUT REJECTED runs only)

Type:string | null

message

Optional

what to change, in words (INPUT REJECTED runs only)

Type:string | null

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