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Comments Insights for YouTube Videos and Shorts

Access valuable insights by extracting comments from selected YouTube videos and shorts. This task fetches detailed comment data, including text, author information, timestamps, and like counts, from up to 200 comments for each provided video URL. Ideal for analyzing viewer sentiment and tracking engagement on specific content.

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Youtube Comments Scraper
Youtube Comments Scraperscraper_one/youtube-comments-scraper
Input URL
Comment Text
Comment ID
Published Time
+4 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Video URLs(required):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxXruY7llcc+1
Results Limit:200

Output fields

Input URL
Comment Text
Comment ID
Published Time
Interpolated Timestamp
Likes
Author
Error

How it works

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The Youtube Comments Scraper Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Comments Insights for YouTube Videos and Shorts". Sign up or log in and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

Start the "Comments Insights for YouTube Videos and Shorts" task

The Youtube Comments Scraper Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like video urls and results limit, to match your specific use case.

Receive the "Comments Insights for YouTube Videos and Shorts" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as input url, comment text, comment id, and more.

Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Comments Insights for YouTube Videos and Shorts" task via API.

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Frequently asked questions

The Comments Insights task provides comment text, author information, timestamps, likes, and comment IDs from selected YouTube videos.

The maximum number of comments retrievable per video is up to 200, as specified in the task configuration.

This task can analyze both regular YouTube videos and YouTube Shorts, as it accepts URLs for both formats.

The Comments Insights task can be scheduled to run automatically in the Apify Console.

Providing multiple video URLs is optional; you can input a single video URL to extract comments as well.

The task works only on publicly visible comments and is subject to YouTube's rate limits; consider proxy rotation for larger volumes.