Youtube Comment Scraper

🧠 YouTube Comment Scraper

This Apify actor automatically scrapes comments from YouTube videos. It extracts structured comment data such as author, text, timestamps, likes, and more — perfect for social media analysis, sentiment research, and community engagement studies.

✅ Use Cases

📊 Analyze audience sentiment and feedback

💬 Monitor community discussions and trends

🏷️ Perform content analysis and engagement studies

🧭 Conduct competitive analysis on video performance

📥 Input Configuration

You can customize the actor using the following input fields:

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
  "maxComments": 100
}

🧾 Fields Explained Field Type Description videoUrls array List of YouTube video URLs to scrape comments from maxComments number Maximum number of comments to extract from each video 📤 Output

The actor returns a dataset containing an array of video objects with their comments. Each record includes video details and an array of extracted comments.

🧩 Sample Output

[
  {
    "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)",
    "channelName": "Rick Astley",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@RickAstley",
    "publishedDate": "2009-10-25",
    "views": 1234567890,
    "likes": 15000000,
    "commentCount": 100,
    "duration": "3:33",
    "description": "The official video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.",
    "comments": [
      {
        "commentId": "Ugx1aBcD2efGhiJkl",
        "author": "John Doe",
        "authorChannelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@JohnDoe",
        "commentText": "Still a classic! ❤️",
        "publishedTime": "1 day ago",
        "likeCount": 420,
        "replyCount": 2
      },
      {
        "commentId": "Ugx2bCdE3fGhIjKlM",
        "author": "MusicLover123",
        "authorChannelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@MusicLover123",
        "commentText": "I came here again in 2025. Still legendary!",
        "publishedTime": "3 hours ago",
        "likeCount": 128,
        "replyCount": 0
      }
    ]
  }
]

🔒 Proxy Configuration

This actor uses Apify Proxy automatically to:

Avoid IP-based rate limiting or bans

Ensure stable scraping at scale

Default proxy settings use:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
}

🚀 How to Use

Open the actor in Apify Console

Click "Try actor" or create a new task

Enter your YouTube video URLs and max comments

Run the actor

Download your comment data in JSON, CSV, or Excel format

⚙️ Advanced Input Example

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
  "maxComments": 100,
  "headless": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  },
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "minDelayBetweenRequestsMs": 1000,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "requestHandlerTimeoutSecs": 60
}

🛠️ Tech Stack

🧩 Apify SDK — for actor and data handling

🕷️ Crawlee — for robust crawling and scraping

🌐 Puppeteer — for browser automation and rendering dynamic content

⚙️ Node.js — fast, scalable backend environment