# YouTube Comments Scraper - Comments, Replies & Likes (`scrapewise/youtube-comments-scraper`) Actor

Scrape YouTube comments without login or API key: text, likes, reply count, date, pinned and creator-hearted flags, plus the replies. Top or newest first, any number of videos, Shorts and live replays. US$ 1.50 per 1,000 comments.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapewise/youtube-comments-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapewise Data](https://apify.com/scrapewise) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.28 / 1,000 comment delivereds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 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$ 1.50 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$ 1.50
- **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=dQw4w9WgXcQ`, top comments (collected on 2026-09-30):

```json
{
  "type": "comment",
  "commentId": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoTitle": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "commentUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lc=Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
  "text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
  "likeCount": 321000,
  "replyCount": 963,
  "publishedTimeText": "1 year ago",
  "publishedAtApprox": "2025-09-30T09:56:30Z",
  "isEdited": false,
  "authorName": "@YouTube",
  "authorIsVerified": true,
  "isPinned": true,
  "isHeartedByCreator": true
}
```

A reply to it: `{"type": "reply", "parentCommentId": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg", "text": "YOUTUBE AND ONE LIKE WOOHAAAAH", "likeCount": 7500}`.

### 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) |

```json
{ "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"], "maxComments": 500, "sortBy": "newest", "includeReplies": true, "maxRepliesPerComment": 10 }
```

### 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`, `authorName`, `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$ 1.50 per 1,000 comments or replies.** 10,000 comments cost US$ 15.00. 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.

### Changelog

- **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.

### Em português

Raspa comentários e respostas do YouTube sem login e sem chave de API: texto, curtidas, respostas, data, se foi editado, nome de exibição de quem comentou, se está fixado e se o criador deu coração. Principais ou mais recentes. US$ 1,50 por 1.000 comentários.

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# Actor input Schema

## `videoUrls` (type: `array`):

YouTube video, Shorts or live links, or 11-character video ids, one per line.

## `maxComments` (type: `integer`):

Top-level comments per video (replies are counted apart).

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Same as the YouTube menu.

## `includeReplies` (type: `boolean`):

Also return the replies of each comment, as 'reply' rows linked by parentCommentId.

## `maxRepliesPerComment` (type: `integer`):

Only with 'Include replies'.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy is recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "maxComments": 100,
  "sortBy": "top",
  "includeReplies": false,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `resultsCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "videoUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    ],
    "maxComments": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapewise/youtube-comments-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
    "maxComments": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapewise/youtube-comments-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "maxComments": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call scrapewise/youtube-comments-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapewise/youtube-comments-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/oAXYHbsddzP8engwt/builds/RAPYrZA1NZbpgAP8m/openapi.json