YouTube Comment Insights

Turn any YouTube video's comments into a single, ready-to-read audience report — sentiment breakdown, most-requested topics, top questions, recurring complaints, and the comments that resonated most. You get the insight layer, not a raw comment dump.

What you get

For every video you submit, one summary record containing:

• Sentiment breakdown — positive, negative, and neutral percentages plus a single sentiment score, computed with a transparent positive/negative word lexicon
• Top keywords — the 15 most frequently discussed content words across the comments, each with a count
• Most-requested topics — comments where viewers ask the creator to do, make, or cover something, with examples and a total request count
• Top questions — the highest-liked questions your audience is asking
• Recurring complaints — comments flagged for common gripes (clickbait, too long, boring, audio issues, and more) with examples and a count
• Most-liked comments — the top 10 comments by like count, with author and likes
• Video context — title, channel, view count, reported comment count, and how many comments were analyzed
• Export to JSON, CSV, or Google Sheets directly from the Apify console

Use cases

• Content planning — see exactly which topics your audience is asking for next
• Audience research — measure how viewers feel about a video at a glance
• Competitor analysis — analyze a rival channel's videos to find unmet audience demand
• Community management — surface the most-liked questions and complaints worth a reply
• Creator vetting — gauge real audience reception before a sponsorship or collaboration

How it works

Comments are scored with deterministic keyword and sentiment heuristics — a hand-built lexicon of positive and negative words plus pattern matching for requests, questions, and complaints. Results are fully reproducible: the same comments always produce the same report.

How to use

1. Paste one or more YouTube video URLs or 11-character video IDs into Video URLs or IDs (watch links, youtu.be links, and Shorts links all work)
2. Set Max Comments Per Video (default 200; up to 1000) — more comments means richer insights
3. Choose Comment Order — Relevance for top/most-engaged comments, or Newest for the latest
4. Run the actor — one insight record per video appears in the Dataset tab

If a video has comments turned off, its row is returned with a comments_disabled status so the rest of your batch still completes.

Output format

One dataset record per video:

{
  "videoId": "0e3GPea1Tyg",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3GPea1Tyg",
  "videoTitle": "Example video title",
  "channelTitle": "Example Channel",
  "viewCount": 12000000,
  "commentCountReported": 48000,
  "commentsAnalyzed": 200,
  "totalCommentLikes": 35210,
  "sentimentPositivePct": 61.5,
  "sentimentNegativePct": 12.0,
  "sentimentNeutralPct": 26.5,
  "sentimentScore": 0.5,
  "topKeywords": [{ "keyword": "editing", "count": 18 }],
  "topRequests": {
    "count": 14,
    "examples": [{ "text": "Please do a video on...", "author": "viewer", "likeCount": 320 }]
  },
  "topQuestions": [{ "text": "How did you make this?", "author": "viewer", "likeCount": 88 }],
  "complaints": {
    "count": 6,
    "examples": [{ "text": "This was too long", "author": "viewer", "likeCount": 12 }]
  },
  "mostLikedComments": [{ "text": "Best video yet!", "author": "viewer", "likeCount": 1500 }],
  "status": "success",
  "error": null
}

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