YouTube Comments Scraper

YouTube Comments Scraper turns YouTube comments and replies into clean JSON, CSV or Excel, without login, cookies or a YouTube API key (so no API quota either). Paste video, Shorts or live links and get each comment's text, likes, reply count, date, edit flag, author display name and badges, whether it is pinned and whether the creator hearted it, plus the replies when you want them. Top comments or newest first, as on YouTube.

US$ 1.00 per 1,000 comments. No monthly fee, no start fee. Error rows are free.

At a glance

• Price per 1,000 comments or replies: US$ 1.00 (down to US$ 0.85 on Gold and above)
• Order: Top comments or newest first
• Replies: Optional, linked to the parent by parentCommentId
• Pinned and creator heart: isPinned, isHeartedByCreator, authorIsCreator
• Likes and replies: As integers (321K becomes 321000)
• Video context: videoTitle and the video's comment total
• Login, cookies, API key: None

One real row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M, top comments (collected on 2026-10-21, text shortened):

{
  "type": "comment",
  "commentId": "UgyhCd5s7WIU57r39cl4AaABAg",
  "videoId": "wjZofJX0v4M",
  "videoTitle": "Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5",
  "commentUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M&lc=UgyhCd5s7WIU57r39cl4AaABAg",
  "text": "Edit: The finalized version of the next chapter is out https://youtu.be/eMlx5fFNoYc ...",
  "likeCount": 1300,
  "replyCount": 47,
  "publishedTimeText": "2 years ago (edited)",
  "publishedAtApprox": "2024-10-21T08:18:00Z",
  "isEdited": true,
  "authorIsVerified": true,
  "isPinned": true,
  "isHeartedByCreator": false
}

A reply to it: {"type": "reply", "parentCommentId": "UgyhCd5s7WIU57r39cl4AaABAg", "text": "@3Blue1Brown thanks explaining these things - it is very hard for web programmer to undestand math", "likeCount": 13}.

What you can do with it

• Audience research and content ideas: what viewers ask, praise and complain about on your videos and your competitors'.
• Sentiment and brand monitoring: export thousands of comments on product reviews, launches or ads for analysis.
• Community management: the newest comments first, with pinned and creator-hearted flags, on a schedule.
• Datasets for AI: clean text with likes and replies as engagement signals.

Input

Field	What it does
videoUrls	Video, Shorts or live links, or video ids
maxComments	Top-level comments per video (default 100)
sortBy	top (default) or newest
includeReplies, maxRepliesPerComment	Replies of each comment, up to N each (default 20)
onlyNewComments	Only comments not delivered in earlier runs; made for daily schedules (see below)

{ "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk"], "maxComments": 500, "sortBy": "newest", "includeReplies": true, "maxRepliesPerComment": 10 }

Schedule it daily: only new comments

Turn on onlyNewComments, save the input as a Task and attach a Schedule. The Actor remembers which comments of each video it already delivered (in a Key-Value Store in your own account, youtube-comments-scraper-only-new), reads the newest first and stops at the first comment you already have. Every run delivers, and charges, only what was posted since; a day with nothing new ends with "No new comment since the last run" and costs nothing for results. Delete the store to start over.

{ "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk"], "maxComments": 200, "onlyNewComments": true }

The order is always newest with this option. New replies to comments delivered in an earlier run are not tracked.

Output fields

type (comment or reply), commentId, commentUrl, videoId, videoTitle, videoCommentCount (as YouTube shows it, rounded for large numbers such as 10M), text, likeCount, replyCount, publishedTimeText (as YouTube shows it), publishedAtApprox (computed from it; YouTube gives only relative dates), isEdited, authorIsVerified, authorIsCreator, isPinned, isHeartedByCreator, parentCommentId, scrapedAt.

About the people who comment, only what YouTube shows next to the comment: the display name and the verified badge. Never channel ids, photos or links.

Error codes (never charged)

errorCode	Meaning
COMMENTS_UNAVAILABLE	Comments are off, or the video is private, deleted or age restricted
NO_RESULTS	The video has no comments yet
INVALID_URL	Not a YouTube video link or id
BLOCKED, NOT_REACHED, UNEXPECTED	YouTube did not answer after retries, the run timeout arrived, or something unforeseen broke; only that video is lost

Pricing

US$ 1.00 per 1,000 comments or replies. 10,000 comments cost US$ 10.00. Error rows and duplicates are free, and there is no Apify compute bill on top.

Limitations

• Dates are relative on YouTube ("3 weeks ago"); publishedAtApprox converts them, so older comments are accurate to the unit YouTube shows (day, week, month or year).
• Very large videos have millions of comments; set maxComments to what you need, the run pages 20 at a time.
• This Actor reads public comments only and respects the site's terms.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube account, cookies or an API key? No. The Actor reads public comments without login, cookies or a YouTube API key, so there is no API quota either.

What does a run cost? Only the comments and replies delivered: US$ 1.00 per 1,000, so 10,000 comments cost US$ 10.00. Error rows and duplicates are free, and there is no Apify compute bill on top.

How do I get the replies too? Turn on includeReplies. Each comment then brings up to maxRepliesPerComment replies (default 20) as reply rows linked to it by parentCommentId. Each reply is charged like a comment.

How many comments can I get per video? Set maxComments (default 100 top-level comments per video). Very large videos have millions of comments, so set it to what you need; it is also your main cost control.

Can I schedule it and get only new comments? Yes. Turn on onlyNewComments, save the input as a Task and attach a Schedule. Each run delivers, and charges, only comments not delivered before, and a day with nothing new costs nothing for results. New replies to comments delivered in an earlier run are not tracked.

Why are the dates approximate? YouTube shows only relative dates ("3 weeks ago"). publishedTimeText keeps that text and publishedAtApprox converts it, accurate to the unit YouTube shows (day, week, month or year).

Changelog

• 23 Oct 2026: output fields updated.
• 2026-10-17: FAQ in this page.
• 2026-10-04: onlyNewComments for daily schedules: each run delivers and charges only comments not delivered before.
• 2026-09-30, 0.1: first release. Comments and replies, top or newest, pinned and creator heart, likes and reply counts as numbers, free error rows.