YouTube Comments Scraper — Comments, Authors & Likes

Scrape YouTube comments with no YouTube API key and no quota: full text, author name and channel ID, like counts, reply counts and publish time for any video. Paste watch URLs, youtu.be links, Shorts URLs or bare video IDs and export clean JSON/CSV. $0.50 per 1,000 comments.

Perfect for sentiment analysis, audience research, social listening, lead generation, community moderation and LLM training data.

Features

• Accepts any video identifier: watch URLs, youtu.be, Shorts links or 11-character IDs.
• Full comment data: text, author, author channel ID, verified/creator badges, likes, reply count, publish time.
• Parsed numeric like counts ("1.2K" → 1200) and the raw display text.
• Bulk: up to 100 videos per run, 10–5,000 comments per video, with polite, rate-limit-friendly paging.
• Residential proxy support to avoid IP blocks.
• No YouTube Data API key, no quota, no login — and videos with comments disabled are reported as error rows and never charged.
• Top-level comments (Top comments order). Replies are not fetched, but every row carries its reply_count so you can see engagement at a glance.

Input

Field	Type	Description
videos	array	Video URLs or 11-char IDs, one per line. Max 100. Required.
maxCommentsPerVideo	integer	Top-level comments to return per video (10–5000). Default 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential proxy recommended (default).

Example input

{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0"
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 500
}

Output

One row per comment, plus one summary row per video.

Comment row (record_type: "comment")

Field	Description
video_id	The video the comment belongs to
comment_id	Unique comment ID
text	Full comment text
author	Display name (e.g. @someuser)
author_channel_id	Author's UC… channel ID
author_is_verified	Verified badge
author_is_creator	Comment by the video's creator
likes / likes_text	1200 / "1.2K"
reply_count	Number of replies on the thread
published_time_text	"2 days ago"
position	1 = first comment returned
scraped_at	ISO timestamp

Video summary row (record_type: "video_summary")

{ video_id, comments_scraped, requested, note? } — one per video, so you always know how many comments each video actually yielded.

Example output

{
  "record_type": "comment",
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "comment_id": "UgzXK9…",
  "text": "This is a masterpiece.",
  "author": "@musicfan",
  "author_channel_id": "UCabc123…",
  "author_is_verified": false,
  "author_is_creator": false,
  "likes": 1200,
  "likes_text": "1.2K",
  "reply_count": 34,
  "published_time_text": "2 days ago",
  "position": 1
}

Videos with comments turned off come back as { "record_type": "error", "input": "…", "error": "…" } — the run continues and you are not charged for them.

Pricing

Pay per event — no subscription, no YouTube API quota to buy:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001 per run
Comment	$0.0005 per comment ($0.50 / 1,000)

Example: 5 videos × 200 comments = 1,000 comments = $0.001 + $0.50 = $0.501.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube API key? No. No API key, no OAuth, no quota. Paste videos and run.

Which comments does it return? Top-level comments in YouTube's "Top comments" order, up to your maxCommentsPerVideo limit.

Are replies included? Not as rows in this version — but each comment carries reply_count, so high-engagement threads are easy to spot.

Are like counts exact? They are what YouTube displays ("1.2K"), parsed to a number (1200). The raw text is always included.

What about videos with comments disabled? You get an error row for that video, the rest of the run continues, and you're not charged for it.

Does it work on Shorts? Yes — Shorts URLs are accepted and their comments scraped the same way.

Related actors

• YouTube Transcript Scraper — full captions/subtitles of any video as clean text.
• YouTube Channel Scraper — subscribers, stats and every upload of any channel.
• YouTube Channel Email Scraper — contact emails and social links from channels.

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