YouTube Comments Scraper – Comment Search, Downloader & API

Get the top comments of any YouTube video as clean rows: the comment text, likes, number of replies and date, with the video's title and total comment count. Paste one video or 1,000, and get up to 700 comments from each.

Built for audience and market research, product feedback and complaint mining, content ideas from what viewers ask, sentiment analysis, AI training and RAG data, and AI agents that need to know what people say under a video.

The data comes through a licensed data provider (DataForSEO), not by scraping YouTube from a browser, so runs do not fail on captchas or blocks.

What you get

• Top comments in YouTube's order, up to 700 per video.
• Text, likes, replies and date on every row, plus the video title, link and total comment count.
• Bulk: links in any format (watch, youtu.be, Shorts, live, embed) or bare video ids. Duplicates are looked up once.
• Privacy by default: no author by default. Turn on includeAuthor to add the commenter's public YouTube @handle (handy for replying or spotting repeat commenters). Names, pictures, channel links and emails are never included, and @handles and email addresses inside the text become [user] and [email removed].

Example output row

A real comment from the pre-filled video:

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "video_title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "position": 1,
  "text": "My algebra teacher said that this was a link to the test answers",
  "likes": 71000,
  "replies": 688,
  "published": "2019-11-12T06:44:00Z",
  "published_ago": "7 years ago",
  "video_comments_total": 2462033
}

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

• $0.20 per 1,000 comments ($0.0002 per comment).
• $0.001 per video looked up (also when it has no comments).
• $0.002 per run start.

Examples: 100 comments from one video cost $0.023. 10 videos × 700 comments cost $1.41. Invalid links are never charged. The pre-filled example is served from a saved lookup and costs only the start fee.

Input

Field	What it does
videos	Video links or ids, one per line, up to 1,000.
maxCommentsPerVideo	Up to 700 (default 100).
includeAuthor	Add the commenter's public @handle (off by default).

Good to know

• Top comments, not replies: you get YouTube's top-level comments in its own order. The replies field counts the replies under each.
• Dates are approximate for older comments: YouTube shows "7 years ago", and published is worked out from that. published_ago is what YouTube shows.
• Live lookups need a paid Apify plan (any plan); the pre-filled example works on the free plan.
• The @handle is personal data in many countries. Use it lawfully (for example under GDPR); you are responsible for how you use the data.
• Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

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