💬 YouTube Comments Scraper

🚀 Collect comments and replies from YouTube videos in minutes. Paste video URLs and export comment text, authors, likes, timestamps, and reply threads. Optional AI sentiment analysis. No coding, no YouTube API key.

The YouTube Comments Scraper collects comment data from any public YouTube video, returning 15+ fields per comment: author name, comment text, like count, reply count, timestamp, and full reply threads. Optional AI enhancement adds sentiment analysis and topic categorization. Runs support up to 1,000,000 comments on a paid plan.

The Actor accepts video URLs and supports configurable reply depth, per-comment reply limits, and optional AI-powered sentiment analysis.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Content creators, marketers, brand teams, social media analysts, product teams, academic researchers	Audience feedback analysis, sentiment tracking, community monitoring, content research, competitor analysis

📋 What the YouTube Comments Scraper does

Video URL input with reply and AI options:

• 🔗 Video URL input. Paste one or more YouTube video URLs.
• 💬 Reply threads. Include nested replies with configurable depth.
• 🔢 Reply limits. Control max replies per top-level comment.
• 🤖 AI enhancement. Optional sentiment analysis and topic categorization.

Each comment record includes author name, author channel URL, comment text, like count, reply count, timestamp, and (when replies enabled) nested reply array with the same fields.

💡 Why it matters: reading through thousands of YouTube comments manually is slow and tedious. This Actor exports structured comment data at scale, ready for sentiment analysis, community feedback reports, or content strategy insights.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: authorId, authorName, authorThumbnailUrl, authorUrl, commentId, isPinned, isVerified, likeCount, parentId, publishedAt, publishedTimeText, replyCount, scrapedAt, text, type, videoId, videoUrl. All 17 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: some videos have comments disabled. The Actor reports this and moves to the next URL. AI enhancement requires additional processing time per comment.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the YouTube Comments Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Paste video URLs. Enable replies and/or AI enhancement.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube, Google LLC, or Alphabet Inc. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available comment data is collected.

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