YouTube Comments Scraper — Video Comment API

Extract comments from any YouTube video as clean JSON — for social monitoring, PR/comms and media-monitoring teams, and AI agents. Give it one or more video URLs and get one record per comment (replies included).

📊 What you get

One JSON record per comment:

• comment_id — comment id
• text — comment text
• author — author display name
• channel — author channel id
• votes — like count as shown by YouTube
• heart — hearted by the creator (boolean)
• is_reply — reply vs. top-level comment (boolean)
• time_text / time_parsed — relative time + parsed timestamp
• video_id, video_url — source video

⚙️ Input

• videoUrls — YouTube video URLs (or 11-character video IDs)
• maxComments — maximum comments per video
• includeReplies — include threaded replies (default: true)
• sortBy — top or recent

💵 Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.003 per comment plus a small per-run start fee. You pay only for the comments actually returned.

🔎 Free preview limit

Free-plan runs return a 200-comment preview per run so you can evaluate the output. Paid-plan runs are uncapped and extract in full (billed per comment). To extract beyond the preview, upgrade to any paid Apify plan.

⏰ Run it on a schedule

Point it at the videos you care about and schedule a recurring run to keep pulling fresh comments as they arrive.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Clean, structured JSON plugs directly into agents and pipelines via the Apify API and MCP.