TikTok Comment Scraper - Export Comments & Replies

This TikTok comment scraper turns the comments under any public TikTok video into a clean table: paste video links, get one row per comment with the text, who wrote it, when, how many likes it drew and how many replies it has. Built for brand monitoring, audience research, giveaways and social listening.

Turn on Include replies to collect the first page of replies per thread, up to fifty replies per thread and within the same per-video limit. Every reply carries the id of the comment it answers, so a flat table reconstructs into threads without guessing. Export the result as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it straight from the API.

What the TikTok comment scraper does

• Reads the comments of one or many TikTok videos in a single run.
• Accepts full video links, links with tracking parameters, photo-post links or bare video ids.
• Returns the comment text, author handle and nickname, likes, reply count, creation time and language.
• Optionally adds the reply threads under each comment, linked to their parent.
• Marks the comments the video's creator liked, which is the fastest way to find the replies a brand or creator actually engaged with.
• No TikTok account, login or API key needed.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
videos	list of strings, required	—	TikTok video links or ids, one per line. Duplicates are read once.
maxCommentsPerVideo	integer, 1–2000	200	Maximum comments per video, top-level comments and replies together.
includeReplies	boolean	false	Also fetch the reply thread under every comment that has one.
country	string	us	Two-letter country code to read from.
language	string	en	Two-letter language code.

Example input:

{
  "videos": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7106594312292453675"],
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 200,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

Output: one row per TikTok comment

Field	Type	Meaning
comment_id	string	TikTok's id of the comment
video_id	string	The video the comment belongs to
parent_comment_id	string or null	On a reply, the comment it answers; null on top-level comments
is_reply	boolean	Whether the row is a reply
text	string or null	The comment text
created_at	string or null	When it was posted, ISO 8601 in UTC
like_count	integer or null	Likes on the comment
reply_count	integer or null	Replies under the comment; null on reply rows
liked_by_author	boolean	Whether the video's creator liked the comment
is_author	boolean or null	true when the creator pinned the comment, otherwise null
language	string or null	The language TikTok detected
handle, nickname, user_id	string or null	Who wrote it
user_url, avatar_url	string or null	Profile link and avatar image (the avatar link expires after a while)
user_region, user_signature	string or null	Kept for compatibility; TikTok's comment data usually leaves them empty
video_comment_total	integer or null	How many comments the video has in total, according to TikTok
position	integer	Running position of the row in the run, starting at 1
fetched_at	string	When the row was collected
source, platform	string	tiktok-comment-scraper and tiktok
post_id, author_handle, author_id, posted_at, likes		The same values under the shared names our other social scrapers use, so comment tables from different networks line up
is_pinned	boolean	Whether the creator pinned the comment, as a plain true or false

A real top-level comment from the default input:

{
  "comment_id": "7128453658077397765",
  "video_id": "7106594312292453675",
  "parent_comment_id": null,
  "is_reply": false,
  "text": "Tiktok and Minecraft??",
  "created_at": "2022-08-05T18:01:11+00:00",
  "like_count": 3,
  "reply_count": 0,
  "liked_by_author": false,
  "is_author": null,
  "language": "en",
  "handle": "awwmanbro",
  "nickname": "a",
  "user_id": "6653810561643937797",
  "user_region": null,
  "user_signature": null,
  "user_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@awwmanbro",
  "avatar_url": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/37c63c610a9c03e111bb4431f517e766~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter:100:100.jpg?dr=9640&refresh_token=bb87af79&x-expires=1791144000&x-signature=51WwhovL81pEUSy%2BBLJ5zHAgihA%3D&t=4d5b0474&ps=13740610&shp=30310797&shcp=ff37627b&idc=useast5",
  "video_comment_total": 1269,
  "position": 1,
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-03T20:24:11.141Z",
  "source": "tiktok-comment-scraper",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "post_id": "7106594312292453675",
  "author_handle": "awwmanbro",
  "author_id": "6653810561643937797",
  "posted_at": "2022-08-05T18:01:11+00:00",
  "likes": 3,
  "is_pinned": false
}

And a real reply, with parent_comment_id pointing to its thread:

{
  "comment_id": "7410253600171983622",
  "video_id": "7394483432811728171",
  "parent_comment_id": "7394527655468712747",
  "is_reply": true,
  "text": "What’s this?",
  "created_at": "2024-09-03T03:28:45+00:00",
  "like_count": 0,
  "reply_count": null,
  "liked_by_author": false,
  "is_author": null,
  "language": "en",
  "handle": "zeakyfreaky_",
  "nickname": "ZeakyFREAKY😍",
  "user_id": "6999739079425213446",
  "user_region": null,
  "user_signature": null,
  "user_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@zeakyfreaky_",
  "avatar_url": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-alisg-avt-0068/b0ae2186f1af54b6c325ddeec0ed1cae~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter:100:100.jpg?dr=9640&refresh_token=05348063&x-expires=1791144000&x-signature=AjCxX6xLrMcEDaccFgHORkevMHM%3D&t=4d5b0474&ps=13740610&shp=30310797&shcp=ff37627b&idc=useast8",
  "video_comment_total": 468,
  "position": 99,
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-03T20:24:38.215Z",
  "source": "tiktok-comment-scraper",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "post_id": "7394483432811728171",
  "author_handle": "zeakyfreaky_",
  "author_id": "6999739079425213446",
  "posted_at": "2024-09-03T03:28:45+00:00",
  "likes": 0,
  "is_pinned": false
}

Rows come in input order: per video first the top-level comments in TikTok's order, then the replies thread by thread. Besides the dataset, each run stores a summary record (videos, comments, replies, videos without comments, seconds spent, error count) and, when something went wrong, an errors record.

How many TikTok comments you can get

Comments arrive fifty at a time and paging follows TikTok's own cursor, so a long conversation follows the pages TikTok makes available. TikTok can end the stream before its reported total: on a video with over a thousand comments, it typically serves a few hundred. Maximum comments per video caps the run; 200 is the default and finishes in a few seconds per video. video_comment_total next to the rows you received tells you what share of a conversation you are holding.

Replies cost one extra request per thread, so a video with many replied-to comments takes noticeably longer with the option on. Replies only fill what the top-level comments leave of the per-video limit, so raise Maximum comments per video when you want both. Leave the option off when you only want the top-level conversation.

Use cases for a TikTok comment export

• Brand and product monitoring: read what people say under your own videos, a competitor's launch or an influencer campaign, and spot complaints and questions early.
• Audience and market research: collect the words real viewers use, then run sentiment, topic or keyword analysis in a spreadsheet, BI tool or language model.
• Giveaways: export every comment of a giveaway video and pick a winner from a complete, timestamped list.
• Influencer vetting: check whether an account's comments come from a real, engaged audience and how often the creator answers.
• Community management: find the comments the creator liked or pinned, and the threads with the most replies.

Errors

A video that cannot be read becomes an entry in the errors record rather than a missing set of rows, and the rest of the run goes on:

Code	Meaning
bad_input	Not a TikTok video link or id
no_comments	The video was read and has no comments
refused	TikTok declined to serve that page; worth a rerun
bad_payload	TikTok sent something that was not comment data; worth a rerun
signer_unavailable	The run could not prepare itself; rerun

no_comments and refused are deliberately different. A video nobody has commented on and a request TikTok declined look identical if you only count rows, and only one of them is worth rerunning.

TikTok comment scraper compared with the alternatives

Option	What you get	Limits
Copying comments by hand	Whatever you can paste	Slow, no likes, ids or timestamps
Browser extensions and export websites	A file per video	One video at a time, often a daily cap or a subscription, no API
TikTok's official Research API	Comment data	Only for approved researchers, with an application process
This actor	One structured row per comment and reply, for many videos per run	Pay per comment, schedulable, API and integrations included

Because the output is a plain dataset, you can schedule runs, send the rows to Google Sheets, a webhook or your own database, and combine them with other Apify actors.

Run settings

The default run settings work with the standard input. Large lists are collected in successive batches automatically.

Pricing

The price is $0.003 per run plus $0.0003 per comment or reply delivered, so $0.30 per 1,000 comments.

• One video with the default 200 comments: $0.003 + $0.06 = $0.063.
• Ten videos with 200 comments each: $0.003 + $0.60 = $0.603.
• A valid video with no comments incurs only the run fee.
• Input without any usable video incurs no fee.

Users without a paid Apify plan receive up to ten comments per run and pay only for those delivered comments.

FAQ

Do I need a TikTok account or login to scrape TikTok comments? No. The actor reads public comments without logging in, and you never share credentials.

Can I export TikTok comments to Excel or CSV? Yes. Every run produces a dataset that you can download as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the run page, or read through the Apify API.

Does the TikTok comment scraper get replies too? Yes, with Include replies on. Each thread gives its first page of up to fifty replies, within the per-video limit, and every reply links to its parent through parent_comment_id.

Why did I get fewer comments than the video shows? TikTok itself stops serving comments before its reported total on large videos. Compare the rows with video_comment_total to see how much of the conversation you hold.

Can I scrape the comments of several videos at once? Yes. Put as many video links or ids in videos as you need; the limit applies per video.

Can I scrape comments from private videos? No. Only comments that TikTok shows publicly can be collected.

Related actors

For finding videos by keyword rather than reading one, use TikTok Search Scraper. For an account's whole catalogue, use TikTok Scraper - Profiles, Videos & Hashtags. For the video files, use TikTok Video Downloader.