YouTube Comment Scraper That Won’t Quit
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YouTube Comment Scraper That Won’t Quit
Bulk-extract YouTube comments (and replies) from video URLs with resilient pagination. Supports rotating alt instances and optional yt-dlp fallback for maximum uptime. Saves video metadata + comment records to dataset output — no API key.
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YouTube Comments Scraper (Alt Instances) (Apify Actor)
Scrape comments for specific YouTube videos via yewtu/Invidious-compatible instances.
This Actor:
- takes
videoUrls[] - paginates comments using continuation tokens
- optionally includes replies if they are present in the payload
Input
Use .actor/input_schema.json in the Apify UI.
Recommended defaults are small so the prefilled run finishes quickly.
Output
Dataset items include:
record_type="video": one per input video (best-effort metadata)record_type="comment": one per comment (and reply when included)
Key comment fields:
video_id,comment_id,parent_comment_id,depthauthor_channel_id,author_handle,author_name,author_urltext,like_count,reply_count,published_atfrom_instance
Key-value store:
OUTPUT: run metadata + totals + warnings (no item list, rely on dataset)
Notes
- yewtu/Invidious instances can be unstable; configure
altInstancesto improve reliability. - If instances fail, the Actor can fall back to
yt-dlpto fetch comments directly from YouTube (fallbackToYtDlpComments=true). - This Actor does not use the official YouTube Data API.
