YouTube Comments Scraper — Comments, Replies & Video Stats
Pricing
Pay per event
Scrape YouTube comments and replies from any video with author, likes, timestamps, pinned/creator flags, plus video title, views and channel. No API key, no login, no proxies needed.
You can access the YouTube Comments Scraper — Comments, Replies & Video Stats programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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