Read Comments From YouTube Community Posts
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Paste community post IDs or URLs and download every comment, reply, author, like count, and publish time in one table.
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Start the "Read Comments From YouTube Community Posts" task
The YouTube Community Posts Scraper Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like post ids to scrape comments from, post urls to scrape comments from, and more, to match your specific use case.
Receive the "Read Comments From YouTube Community Posts" output
Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as post id, post url, comment id, and more.
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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Read Comments From YouTube Community Posts" task via API.
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The Read Comments task returns one row per comment with the comment text, author, handle, likes, reply count, parent comment ID, reply flag, heart flag, and relative publish time.
Paste community post IDs or post URLs. The task pulls the comments from each post. Set the maximum comments per post and choose top or newest order.
Yes. Replies are returned as separate rows with a parentCommentId and isReply set to true, so you can rebuild the comment thread.
No. The task reads public YouTube post comments without a YouTube API key or quota.