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YouTube Comments Scraper – Comments & Replies, No API Key

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$1.00 / 1,000 comment scrapeds

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YouTube Comments Scraper – Comments & Replies, No API Key

YouTube Comments Scraper – Comments & Replies, No API Key

Extract all comments and replies from YouTube videos, Shorts or live VODs: text, author, channel, likes, reply count, heart by creator, pinned, timestamps. Top or newest first, thousands of comments per video, plus video title & channel. No YouTube API key or quota. $1 per 1,000 comments.

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$1.00 / 1,000 comment scrapeds

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Extract all comments and replies from any YouTube video, Short or live-stream VOD – without the YouTube Data API, its quotas or keys. Sort by Top or Newest, fetch thousands of comments per video, include reply threads, and get clean JSON/CSV with author, channel, likes, reply count, creator hearts, pinned status and timestamps.

$1 per 1,000 comments (replies count as comments). Fast, no proxies needed.

Output

{
"commentId": "Ugwedfi--9yZVC0eefl4AaABAg",
"videoId": "aircAruvnKk",
"videoTitle": "But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1",
"channelName": "3Blue1Brown",
"text": "I study mathematics, physics and architecture. …",
"author": "@kummer45",
"authorChannelId": "UCqArZkt3NAOU0tcgIi6xmFQ",
"authorUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@kummer45",
"authorThumbnail": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/…",
"authorIsVerified": false,
"authorIsChannelOwner": false,
"publishedTimeText": "7 years ago (edited)",
"publishedAt": "2019-08-21T14:03:23.423Z",
"isEdited": true,
"likeCount": 13000,
"replyCount": 166,
"isHearted": false,
"isPinned": false,
"isReply": false,
"parentCommentId": null,
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&lc=Ugwedfi--9yZVC0eefl4AaABAg"
}

publishedAt is derived from YouTube's relative time ("2 years ago") and is therefore approximate; publishedTimeText is the original.

Input

FieldDescription
videoUrlsVideo URLs (watch, youtu.be, Shorts, live, embed) or 11-character IDs.
maxCommentsPerVideoTop-level comments per video (0 = all).
sortBytop (YouTube ranking) or newest.
includeRepliesFetch reply threads too.
maxRepliesPerCommentCap per thread (0 = all).
includeVideoInfoAdd video title and channel to every comment.
concurrencyVideos in parallel.
proxyConfigurationOptional; the actor automatically falls back to Apify residential proxy if YouTube rate-limits.

Use cases

  • Sentiment & audience research – what viewers think about a product, creator, launch or ad.
  • Community management – export comments for moderation, FAQs, or to find questions to answer.
  • Lead & influencer discovery – active commenters and creator interactions.
  • AI datasets – feed comments into LLM summarization, topic clustering or classification.
  • Competitor monitoring – schedule daily runs with sortBy: newest.

Pricing

$0.001 per comment returned (top-level and replies). Videos with comments disabled are free.

Integrations

Run via API/SDK or on a schedule; export JSON, CSV, Excel; push to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n; usable as an MCP tool for AI agents.