TikTok Comments & Replies Scraper

Collect the comments under public TikTok videos: top-level comments and their reply threads, each reply linked to its parent. Paste video links or IDs; no login, no cookies, no account of your own. The Actor only reads what TikTok shows a signed-out visitor. $1.99 per 1,000 results, plus $0.005 per run, from 2026-10-26. See Pricing.

Input:

{
  "videos": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"],
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 200,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 100
}

Output - one row per comment or reply (recordType: "comment" / "reply"); video_summary rows are free. Sample from a real run; author names partially masked (that run set maxRepliesPerComment: 3, which is why the thread is partial):

{
  "recordType": "comment",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "videoId": "7451282344960412950",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@autohub561/video/7451282344960412950",
  "commentId": "7471361215131452182",
  "parentId": null,
  "replyToReplyId": null,
  "text": "This has to be AI ? 😭",
  "authorNickname": "fal***",
  "authorUsername": "fal***",
  "likeCount": 68,
  "replyCount": 8,
  "repliesCollected": 3,
  "likedByCreator": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "publishedAt": "2025-02-14T19:37:50+00:00",
  "collectedAt": "2026-10-19T23:34:30+00:00",
  "source": "comment_list",
  "accessMode": "direct",
  "collectionStatus": "partial",
  "partialReason": "cap:maxRepliesPerComment=3"
}

Limits:

• Public data only. Only what TikTok shows a signed-out visitor; the Actor never logs in. TikTok's displayed comment count includes comments it does not serve - see How much you get.
• Every row says how complete it is. A thread or video the Actor could not read to the end is marked partial with the reason, and a private or removed video is reported as such - never as "0 comments".
• Your limits stop collection and appear in the row: maxCommentsPerVideo, maxRepliesPerComment and the maximum charge per run (see Pricing).

What it does

• Reads the top-level comments of each video, page by page, up to your limit.
• Reads each comment's reply thread, up to your limit per thread.
• Records the commenter's public nickname and @username exactly as the page shows them.
• Writes one video_summary row per input: video status, how many comments TikTok displays, how many were collected, and why anything is missing.
• Works as a signed-out visitor without a proxy. TikTok serves one visitor session a limited number of pages; when it stops answering, the Actor opens a new visitor session and continues where it stopped.

What it does not do

• No search, no profiles, no hashtags. Bring video links or IDs.
• No login-only content. Only what a signed-out visitor can see.
• No personal profiles. No user IDs, avatars, bios or follower counts - only the nickname and @username shown beside the comment.
• Not every comment counted on the video. TikTok's displayed count includes comments it does not serve. See How much you get.
• No video downloads, no transcripts, no scheduling built in.

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
videos	-	Video links (https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/...), short links (https://vm.tiktok.com/...) or numeric video IDs.
maxCommentsPerVideo	200	Top-level comments per video.
includeReplies	true	Also collect reply threads.
maxRepliesPerComment	100	Replies per thread.
requestDelaySecs	0.5	Minimum pause between two requests.

Output

One dataset, three kinds of rows (recordType): comment, reply and video_summary. Two views are predefined: Comments and replies and Video summaries. A RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store has run totals.

Comment and reply fields:

Field	Meaning
recordType	comment (top level) or reply.
videoId, videoUrl	The video.
commentId	The comment or reply ID.
parentId	For replies: the top-level comment's commentId.
replyToReplyId	For a reply to another reply in the same thread: that reply's ID.
text	Comment text.
authorNickname, authorUsername	Public display name and @username shown on the page.
likeCount	Likes.
replyCount	Top-level comments: replies TikTok reports for the thread.
repliesCollected	Top-level comments: replies of this thread in the dataset.
likedByCreator, isPinned	Whether the creator liked or pinned the comment.
publishedAt	Publication time (UTC).
collectedAt	Collection time (UTC).
source	comment_list, reply_api (the thread's own reply list) or reply_preview (a reply TikTok shows inline under the comment).
accessMode	direct (no proxy).
collectionStatus	complete or partial for the thread this row belongs to.
partialReason	Why the thread is partial.

video_summary fields: input, videoId, videoStatus, videoTitle, videoPublishedAt, displayedCommentCount, topLevelCollected, threadsWithReplies, expectedReplies, repliesCollected, threadsComplete, threadsPartial, records, accessMode, collectionStatus, partialReason, elapsedMs.

Video status

videoStatus	Meaning
available	Public video, comments read.
private	The author made the video private.
unavailable	The page refuses to show the video to visitors (removed, restricted or never existed); its status code is in partialReason.
invalid_input	The input is not a TikTok video link or ID.
unknown	The page did not say; comments were still attempted.

For private, unavailable and invalid_input the counts are null, not 0, and collectionStatus is not_collected.

What partial means

collectionStatus on a video_summary:

• complete: TikTok's comment list was read to its end, every reply thread was read to its end, and the comments found account for at least 80% of the count TikTok displays.
• partial: something is missing. partialReason lists what, with a count per reason, for example:
  • cap:maxCommentsPerVideo=200, cap:maxRepliesPerComment=100: your limits.
  • cap:maxTotalChargeUsd: your maximum cost per run was reached (see Pricing).
  • comments:refused:...: TikTok stopped answering for the comment list even after new visitor sessions; the comments read before that are kept.
  • comments:below_displayed (60 of 112): TikTok said there were no more pages, but top-level comments plus the replies TikTok reports for them come to less than 80% of the displayed count.
  • replies:fewer_than_reply_count x3: three threads were read to their end but hold fewer replies than their replyCount.
  • replies:refused:... x1: TikTok stopped answering for a thread's reply list.
• blocked: TikTok refused the comment list before any comment was read.
• not_collected: see video status.

On a comment or reply row, collectionStatus describes that comment's thread.

displayedCommentCount is the number TikTok prints on the video. It counts replies too, and it also counts comments TikTok does not serve to anyone browsing the list - for example comments that were deleted, hidden by the creator or filtered. TikTok's replyCount on a comment counts the same way. That is why a thread that ends with fewer replies than replyCount is marked partial, even when TikTok served nothing more.

How much you get

Measured on 5 public videos on 2026-10-09 (displayed comment counts 27, 112, 187, 2,107 and 5,844), no proxy, up to 1,000 top-level comments per video and 50 replies per comment. TikTok changes its web client often, so results after a change may differ.

• Rows: 2,987 (2,193 top-level comments and 794 replies). All 5 videos returned comments; 238 of 248 requests were answered, and the 10 refusals were recovered with a new visitor session.
• Replies: 794 of the 985 replies TikTok reported for the collected comments, 81%. Every thread with a gap is marked partial.
• Against the count shown on the video: on the 3 videos whose comment list was read to the end, top-level comments plus replies came to 54%-93% of the displayed count (25 of 27, 150 of 187, 60 of 112). The rest is not served by TikTok's comment list (see above). The 112-comment video would now be marked partial with comments:below_displayed.
• The 2 large videos stopped at the 1,000 top-level comment limit and are marked partial.

Every video_summary row shows the displayed count next to what was collected, so you can check each video yourself.

Pricing

Pay per event: $1.99 per 1,000 results, plus $0.005 per run. Apify platform usage is included; you pay only these two events.

Event	Price	Charged for
result	$0.00199 ($1.99 per 1,000)	Each comment or reply row in the dataset. video_summary rows are free.
run-start	$0.005	Once per run, when it starts.

Example: one video with 300 comments and replies costs $0.005 + 300 x $0.00199 = $0.602.

This price takes effect on 2026-10-26. Until then the Actor still charges the previous $0.0005 per result ($0.50 per 1,000); the run-start price is unchanged by this. The Actor's Apify Store page always shows the price in force right now.

To cap a run, set Maximum cost per run in the run options. When the cap is reached, the Actor stores no further rows, stops before the next video, marks a video it cut short partial with cap:maxTotalChargeUsd, says so in the run's status message and log, and records "fatal": "max total charge reached" in RUN_SUMMARY. Videos after it get no rows.

Resources

• Runs with 2 GB memory, fixed. Each visitor session is a real browser page.
• A run opens a visitor session first (about 20-30 seconds). The 5-video run above took about 9 minutes for 2,987 rows and opened 11 visitor sessions.

Notes

• Respect TikTok's terms and local law, and only collect what you need. Nicknames and usernames are personal data in many jurisdictions.
• TikTok changes its web client often. The RUN_SUMMARY record shows request outcomes per endpoint and the first refusals.

Licenses

Request signing and response parsing are adapted from Douyin_TikTok_Download_API by Evil0ctal and contributors, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The license and notice are in dtk/LICENSE and dtk/NOTICE.