Youku Comments Scraper

💬 What does Youku Comments Scraper do?

Youku Comments Scraper is an Apify Actor that allows you to scrape comments from Youku videos. It can scrape comments from individual video URLs, video IDs. The scraper handles pagination and retrieves all available comments for the specified videos, providing structured data in JSON format.

✨ Features

• 💬 Scrape comments using video URLs or video IDs
• ⚡ Fast and reliable scraping
• 🧑‍💻 Perfect for non-technical users
• 🔒 No need for authentication
• 🔄 Automatically handles retries for failed requests
• 📦 Outputs data in JSON format for easy integration with other tools

🎯 Who Is This For?

• Content creators and marketers looking to analyze Youku video comments
• Researchers studying trends and patterns in online video comments
• Developers needing structured data from Youku for their applications
• Anyone interested in gathering insights from Youku's vast video library

⬇️ Input Options

• 🔗 startUrls - List of URLs to scrape. It should can be a list of video URLs from Youku.
• 🔢 videoIds - List of Youku video IDs to scrape comments from.
• 💬 maxCommentsPerVideo - Maximum number of comments to scrape per video. Default is 100

💡 Input Examples

🔗 Scrape by URLs

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjQ0NTczMTY5Mg==.html"
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 50
}

🔍 Scrape by Video IDs

{
  "videoIds": [
    "XNjQ0NTczMTY5Mg==",
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 50
}

📤 Output Format

Common fields (all types)

• commentId - Unique identifier for the comment.
• content - The text content of the comment.
• createTimeTimestamp - The timestamp when the comment was created.
• createTime - The creation time of the comment in ISO 8601 format.
• likeCount - Number of likes the comment has received.
• trampCount - Number of tramps (dislikes) the comment has received
• replyCount - Number of replies to the comment.
• parentCommentId - The ID of the parent comment if this is a reply;
• userId - Unique identifier for the user who posted the comment.
• userName - The name of the user who posted the comment.
• userAvatarUrl - URL to the user's avatar image.
• userLevel - The level of the user who posted the comment.
• publishIpArea - The geographical area from which the comment was published.
• images - An array of URLs to images associated with the comment, if any.

🗂️ Output Examples

{
	"commentId": 10001397563159,
	"content": "断臂男主从血泊中走来，有亿点带感啊",
	"createTimeTimestamp": 1785209835594,
	"createTime": "2026-07-28T03:37:15.594Z",
	"likeCount": 22,
	"trampCount": 0,
	"replyCount": 0,
	"parentCommentId": 0,
	"userId": 1403611276,
	"userName": "白行简不简单",
	"userAvatarUrl": "https://image.9xsecndns.cn/image/uicon/d74584f37ada8c53d31c6ac5ca45f1a9cf99a4a0c056a2.jpg",
	"userLevel": 5,
	"publishIpArea": "宁夏",
	"images": [
		"http://image.planet.youku.com/img/100/28/32972/i_1785209832972_0da9f7589d5f6fd07303a7d5ce44c324_b_w1841h888.jpg",
		"http://image.planet.youku.com/img/100/28/32988/i_1785209832988_7880c8687ac2576599eddffaf516d857_b_w1841h888.jpg",
		"http://image.planet.youku.com/img/100/28/33006/i_1785209833006_5856cbd8b08dcd8532e017f289b15b50_b_w1841h888.jpg",
		"http://image.planet.youku.com/img/100/28/33024/i_1785209833024_60474d6c9e4db3130cc45b539834b8ce_b_w1841h888.jpg",
		"http://image.planet.youku.com/img/100/28/33035/i_1785209833035_62244ac1b584ac579a1cd00a85cced03_b_w1841h888.jpg",
		"http://image.planet.youku.com/img/100/28/33053/i_1785209833053_de1f994ebd19d1feda38adda50e7baaf_b_w1841h888.jpg"
	]
}

💲 How much will scraping Youku cost you?

The pricing changes according to your Apify plan.

Plan	Price
Free	$5/1000 comments
Starter	$1.50/1000 comments
Scale	$1.20/1000 comments
Business	$1/1000 comments

🧩 Integrations and Youku Comments Scraper

Youku Comments Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more. Or you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever Youku Comments Scraper successfully finishes a run.

🔌 Using Youku Comments Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details or click on the API tab for code examples.

💬 Giving feedback

We're always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you've got any technical feedback for Youku Comments Scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor's Issues tab in Apify Console. 📧 Email: nathan.santos159@hotmail.com