YouTube Comments Scraper
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from $1.30 / 1,000 comments
YouTube Comments Scraper
This alternative YouTube Data API has no limits or quotas. Extract YouTube comments data from one or multiple YouTube videos: full comment text, posting date, author username, video title, videoId. Download YouTube comments in JSON, CSV, and Excel.
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from $1.30 / 1,000 comments
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Comments scraper is also returning video results in response
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When i try to run the scraper with below input, this is giving me a combination of videos + comments. It should be only comments.
Sometimes, the count of comments which i get per video is less than the max_comments parameter shared.
{ "maxComments": 2, "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlnlkwEzDI", "method": "GET" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azyHr-oVvzI", "method": "GET" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLQnMgdQRrU", "method": "GET" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8M86Sbo0bY", "method": "GET" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egx_6V4wXqo", "method": "GET" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaMu5xWQ0Y", "method": "GET" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTARJNM-vo", "method": "GET" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yvjsOk_P0o", "method": "GET" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeoxSJQDHD0", "method": "GET" } ], "commentsSortBy": "1" }
Hi, thanks for opening this issue!
The problem is that some of those videos don't have any comments to scrape, so we output at least the video itself.
Arguably, this should be explained more clearly with some data points like error, or errorDescription, and some warning message in the logs. We will discuss and improve it in this regard.
With the amount of comments that you get per video even though your maxComments option is set higher, that's once again the same thing - the video just has fewer comments than what you requested.
I will keep you updated here, thanks!
