TikTok Comments Scraper — replies, no duplicates

TikTok Comments Scraper — replies, no duplicates

Give it TikTok video URLs. Get back every comment as flat rows: text, author, like count, reply count, timestamp. No login, no cookies, no browser.

What makes this one different

TikTok's comment endpoint re-ranks its results on every request, so paging through a video returns the same comments more than once. Measured on a video with 8,446 comments: page two repeated 9–10 of the 20 comments from page one, and a four-page walk of 20 collected 65 distinct comments instead of 80.

This Actor eliminates that. The same five-page walk of the same video, paged the naive way and then with the de-duplication this Actor uses:

	distinct comments in 99 returned rows
paging by cursor alone	81 — eighteen rows were repeats
the way this Actor pages	99

A run of this Actor collecting 120 comments returned 120 rows with 120 distinct comment IDs and zero duplicates.

So 1,000 results here means 1,000 different comments. Worth checking against anything you compare it with.

How to use

1. Click Try for free at the top of this page. Apify creates a free account if you do not have one — no card is needed to run this.
2. Put what you want scraped into Video URLs — one per line.
3. Set Max comments per video to bound the run, then press Start. You are billed per row, so this field is also your budget.
4. Rows show up in the Dataset tab while the run is still going. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from there, or read them over the API.

Input

field
videoUrls	required	Full video URLs, or bare numeric video IDs. One per line.
maxCommentsPerVideo	default 100	Stops once this many distinct comments are collected. Popular videos have tens of thousands, so this is what bounds the run.
includeReplies	default off	Also fetch the reply thread under each comment that has one. Costs one extra request per such comment.
maxRepliesPerComment	default 10	Only used when replies are on.

Every field, with its default — paste the whole block and delete what you do not need:

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7283509500307442987"
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 100,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 10
}

Output

One row per comment. Replies are rows too, marked isReply with parentCommentId pointing at the comment they answer.

field
videoId	the video this comment is on
commentId	unique per comment
text	the comment
likeCount, replyCount
createdAt	ISO 8601
isPinned	pinned by the creator
isReply, parentCommentId	parentCommentId is null for top-level comments
authorUniqueId, authorNickname, authorId, authorAvatar
language	as TikTok labels the comment

One row, exactly as it lands in your dataset (long signed CDN links shortened here for readability):

{
  "videoId": "7663093059894250765",
  "commentId": "7663492097354040078",
  "text": "DAD IM FUCKING HUNGRY",
  "likeCount": 2253,
  "replyCount": 47,
  "createdAt": "2026-07-17T13:43:57.000Z",
  "isPinned": false,
  "isReply": false,
  "parentCommentId": null,
  "authorUniqueId": "kwiz178",
  "authorNickname": "Baby tung tung",
  "authorId": "7364413788067611691",
  "authorAvatar": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/481c0…?…",
  "language": "en"
}

Notes

• A video with comments disabled, or a private or deleted video, returns no rows for that video and logs why. Other videos in the same run are unaffected.
• Comment counts move while you page — new comments arrive at the top. The run collects a consistent set for the moment it started; it is not a live feed.
• Only public data. There is no login, so anything TikTok hides from a logged-out visitor is not available here.

Run it from your own code

Every Actor is an API endpoint. This starts a run, waits for it, and returns the rows in one call — swap in your token from Settings → Integrations:

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/mu0i~tiktok-comments-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "videoUrls": [
      "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7283509500307442987"
    ],
    "maxCommentsPerVideo": 100,
    "includeReplies": false,
    "maxRepliesPerComment": 10
  }'

Pricing

Pay per result — you are billed for rows you receive, not for time or compute.

Event	Per 1,000	What one unit is
comment	$1.00	one comment in the dataset

Paid Apify plans pay less than this. The table above is the free-plan rate. Starter, Scale and Business each get a lower per-unit price — up to 55% off on Business — and the Actor's Pricing tab shows every tier before you run anything.

Starting a run costs $0.00001 — a cent per thousand runs — and there is no run minimum. You are never billed for a run that found nothing. If an input has nothing to collect the run says so in a row of the dataset — never a silently empty result, and never a charge. A run that fails because the data could not be reached fails loudly, because that one is worth retrying.

Related Actors

Fourteen Actors covering the whole public TikTok surface. Same billing rules and the same guarantees throughout: billed once for each row you receive, never billed for a run that found nothing, and told in the dataset why it found nothing.

Actor	What it does
TikTok Search Scraper — videos, users, hashtags	Keyword search across every tab, deduplicated.
TikTok Hashtag Scraper — videos by hashtag	Every video under a hashtag, walked deep.
TikTok Trending Scraper — the real Explore feed	The app's real Explore feed, not Creative Center.
TikTok Profile Scraper — followers, likes, bio	Followers, likes, bio for any public account.
TikTok User Posts Scraper — every video + stats	Every video an account posted, with stats.
TikTok Video Downloader — no watermark MP4/MP3	No-watermark MP4, MP3, covers and subtitles.
TikTok Transcript Scraper — no AI, no waiting	Subtitles from TikTok's own caption track.
TikTok Sound Scraper — videos using a sound	Videos that actually use a sound, filtered.
TikTok Live Scraper — rooms, viewers, streams	Live rooms with playable stream links.
TikTok Places Scraper — locations and reviews	Locations with addresses, coordinates and reviews.
TikTok Shop Scraper — Products, Sellers & Reviews	Shop search, product detail, seller catalogue.
TikTok Shop Category Scraper — every product	Every product in a Shop category and its subcategories.
TikTok Shop Reviews Scraper — full archive	The full review archive for a Shop product.