YouTube Comments Scraper: Videos, Channels & Replies

Scrape YouTube comments and replies with no API key and no quota. It works on single videos, Shorts, playlists or whole channels, with likes, reply counts, author, approximate date, and pinned and hearted-by-creator flags. You only pay for comments you get: videos with comments turned off are free.

💲 Price	$1 per 1,000 comments (a reply counts as one comment). Failed videos are free.
⚡ Speed	~900 comments in 30 seconds, with replies loaded in parallel
📥 Input	Video URLs or IDs, Shorts, live replays, playlists, channels (@handle)
📤 Output	One row per comment or reply: text, author, likes, replies, date, flags, direct link
🔀 Sort	Top comments or newest first, like YouTube's menu

What people use it for

• Audience research: what viewers love, hate and ask for, on your channel or a competitor's
• Sentiment and AI analysis: feed thousands of comments to an LLM, a sentiment model or topic clustering
• Product feedback: mine review and unboxing videos for complaints and feature requests
• Content ideas: the top questions in comments make the best next videos
• Brand and influencer monitoring: see how audiences react to sponsored segments
• Giveaways and community: export every commenter on a video

How to use it

1. Paste one or more YouTube URLs (videos, playlists or channels).
2. Set Max comments per video, pick Top or Newest first, and optionally include replies.
3. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch them through the API.

For AI agents and automations

• One job: get the comments (and optionally replies) of YouTube videos, playlists or channels. Minimal input: { "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"], "maxCommentsPerVideo": 100 }
• Fast enough for a single tool call: 100 comments on one video finish in under 10 seconds; ~900 in ~30 seconds, which fits inside the Apify MCP server's default 30-second wait. For big jobs, start the run asynchronously and read the dataset when it finishes.
• Where the results are: dataset items (fields below). A run summary is in the key-value store record OUTPUT: status (SUCCEEDED, PARTIAL, STOPPED_AT_SPEND_LIMIT, ABORTED, NO_RESULTS, SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE), results, errorsByCode and a plain-English message.
• Predictable billing: pay per event. Only successful comments are charged; error rows are free.
• Respects "Max cost per run": it never starts work your budget can't pay for, then stops cleanly with status STOPPED_AT_SPEND_LIMIT. Everything fetched up to that point is kept.
• Graceful on abort and restarts: partial results are always kept, and a platform restart resumes without duplicates or double charges.
• Honest failures: if the source blocks every request or changes its format, the run fails with a clear message and you pay $0, instead of quietly returning empty results.
• Works with the Apify MCP server (Claude, Cursor, other agents), agentic payments, and the API.

Input examples

The top 500 comments on one video:

{ "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"], "maxCommentsPerVideo": 500 }

The newest comments on a channel's last 10 videos:

{ "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"], "maxVideosPerPlaylist": 10, "maxCommentsPerVideo": 200, "sortBy": "newest" }

Comments with up to 20 replies each:

{ "urls": ["https://youtu.be/QVv3mQzlrN0"], "maxCommentsPerVideo": 300, "includeReplies": true, "maxRepliesPerComment": 20 }

Output

One item per comment or reply. From a real run:

{
  "type": "comment",
  "commentId": "Ugxzbv_ZeZXNRcfwsSF4AaABAg",
  "parentCommentId": null,
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoTitle": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "commentUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lc=Ugxzbv_ZeZXNRcfwsSF4AaABAg",
  "text": "Is everyone going to ignore the fact that Rick Astley looks like a twelve year old boy but has a uniquely deep voice?",
  "author": "@candycake9531",
  "authorChannelId": "UCNLgzvqrGzFi5SEAbVkFchg",
  "authorChannelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@candycake9531",
  "authorIsChannelOwner": false,
  "authorIsVerified": false,
  "likeCount": 291000,
  "likeCountText": "291K",
  "replyCount": 679,
  "publishedTimeText": "6 years ago",
  "publishedAtApprox": "2020-10-15T13:04:48.000Z",
  "isEdited": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "isHeartedByCreator": false,
  "sortedBy": "top",
  "videoCommentCountText": "2,459,435"
}

Field	Meaning
type	comment, reply, or error (free)
parentCommentId	For replies, the comment they answer
text, author, authorChannelUrl	The comment and who wrote it
likeCount / likeCountText	Number (converted from YouTube's rounded "291K") and the original text
replyCount	Replies under the comment
publishedTimeText / publishedAtApprox	YouTube's relative time, and an estimated ISO date
isPinned, isHeartedByCreator, authorIsChannelOwner, authorIsVerified, isEdited	Flags
commentUrl	Direct link that opens the comment on YouTube
videoTitle, videoCommentCountText	Video context

Cost examples

Job	Comments	Cost
Top 100 comments on 10 videos	1,000	$1.00
300 comments + up to 5 replies each, 20 videos	~15,000	~$15
Every comment on a 50k-comment video	50,000	$50

Set Max cost per run to cap any run, and the actor stops cleanly at the limit.

Integrations

• API: client.actor("t3data/youtube-comments").call({ urls: [...] }) (JS), or client.actor("t3data/youtube-comments").call(run_input={"urls": [...]}) (Python). Full snippets are on the API tab.
• AI agents (MCP): available as a tool through the Apify MCP server.
• n8n node: install n8n-nodes-t3data-youtube-comments (n8n → Settings → Community Nodes → Install) for a ready-made node with all the options above, also usable as an AI Agent tool. npm package
• No-code: Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack and webhooks, through Apify integrations.
• Export: JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML or RSS.

Error codes (never charged)

Code	Meaning
COMMENTS_DISABLED	Comments are turned off (common on kids' videos)
NO_COMMENTS	Nobody has commented yet
VIDEO_UNAVAILABLE	Private, deleted or unavailable
INVALID_URL	Not a YouTube video, playlist or channel link
PLAYLIST_NOT_FOUND / CHANNEL_NOT_FOUND	The playlist is private, or the channel handle doesn't exist
SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE (run status)	Every request was blocked, or the source changed its format. The run fails with $0 charged; retry later
BLOCKED	YouTube kept refusing after every retry (rare; try again)

FAQ

Are like counts exact? YouTube shows rounded numbers for large counts ("291K"). likeCount converts them to a number, and likeCountText keeps the original.

Are dates exact? YouTube only says "3 weeks ago". publishedAtApprox turns that into a date, which is accurate to within that unit (about a week for "weeks ago", a year for "years ago").

Can I get every comment on a huge video? Yes. Set maxCommentsPerVideo high. YouTube serves comments 20 at a time in order, so very large videos take a few minutes. Cap your spend with Max cost per run.

Do I need a proxy or a YouTube API key? No. A residential proxy and IP rotation are built in, and their cost is included in the price.

Is it legal? It reads only publicly visible comments. Comments can contain personal data such as usernames, so handle the data according to the privacy rules that apply to you (e.g. GDPR).

Something broke? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the video URL. Fixes usually ship within a day.

Limits

• Exact timestamps aren't available from YouTube, only relative times (see publishedAtApprox).
• Comments on private, members-only or age-restricted videos aren't supported.
• Very large videos are limited by YouTube's 20-per-page delivery, so they take time but do finish.

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This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. It only accesses publicly visible comments.