Youtube Comment Scraper

Overview

Youtube comment scraper can extract comments from multiple youtube shorts and videos at an affordable price. It collects following information about the comments

• Comment text
• Author details
  • Channel ID
  • Displau name
  • Avatar URL
  • Is verified
• Comment ID
• Posted at time
• Likes count
• Dislikes count
• Replies count

Features

How to scrape Youtube comments

• Go to Youtube comment scraper on the Apify platform
• Click the Try for free button
• Add youtube urls to scrape or upload a file with list of youtube video urls
• Click the Start button
• When the run has finished, click the Export button
• View and download your data

Input

Here are sample inputs:

1{
2    "count": 100,
3    "urls": [
4        {
5            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydCvkxuNm4",
6            "method": "GET"
7        }
8    ]
9}

Output

Here is the sample output of this actor:

1{
2	"commentText": "This man deserves 10 kg Tomatoes 🍅🍅🍅🍅 for this video.😅",
3	"author": {
4		"channelId": "UCOvUqYdg774h5WqMaZIHbJw",
5		"displayName": "@itisroasterG",
6		"avatarThumbnailUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/g2FhHstoHU4vo6o1lsnaT9MXemdMbFJvehZ_f1r9F3q1lnLu5ZptBrrxVZQ19pFyQxpoIEvNCA=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
7		"isVerified": false,
8		"isCurrentUser": false,
9		"isCreator": false,
10		"isArtist": false
11	},
12	"commentId": "UgwGOiO6AJjVBrhjmSl4AaABAg",
13	"publishedTime": "1 year ago",
14	"replyLevel": 0,
15	"likeCountLiked": "5.3K",
16	"likeCountNotliked": "5.3K",
17	"replyCount": "85",
18	"heartActiveTooltip": "❤ by TechBurner Shorts",
19	"inputUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EL5GxUuvFak"
20}

Integrations

You can use Make to integrate Youtube comment scraper to any other SaaS platform by designing your own automation flows.

Youtube comments API

The actor stores results in a dataset. You can export data in various formats such as CSV, JSON, XLS, etc. You can scrape and access data on demand using API. For more information, Go to Youtube comment scraper API integration page

How much will it cost me to scrape Youtube comments ?

This scraper costs $0.3 per thousand Youtube comments. You can scrape upto 16,000 Youtube comments per month with Apify starter plan

Is it legal to scrape Youtube ?

Our scrapers are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our scrapers, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read our blog post on the legality of web scraping

Your feedback

We’re always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you’ve got any technical feedback for this scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console