YouTube Comments Scraper

Give it YouTube videos, get back every comment, with replies if you want them. One row per comment or reply.

YouTube only shows a first page of comments at a time and hides most replies behind a click. We page through all of it for you.

What people use it for

• Audience research. Read what viewers actually say about a video, a product review, or a launch.
• Sentiment at scale. Pull thousands of comments into a spreadsheet or a model instead of scrolling.
• Competitor and creator monitoring. Track how people react to a competitor's or your own new upload.
• Moderation and support. Find questions and complaints buried in a busy comment section.

How to use it

1. Add videos in Videos, one per line: a watch URL, a youtu.be link, a Shorts URL, or a bare video id.
2. Set Max comments per video (default 100).
3. Optional: Sort comments by (top comments or newest first) and Include replies.
4. Click Start. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the results through the API.

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
  "maxComments": 500,
  "sortCommentsBy": "TOP_COMMENTS",
  "includeReplies": true
}

What you get

{
  "cid": "UgyEnXfdC-umwvTt8JF4AaABAg",
  "comment": "Gonna flag this for nudity so I can rick roll the YouTube staff",
  "author": "@Oatman69",
  "authorChannelId": "UCWf34D_s8K_m2vwBISIDWtg",
  "voteCount": 569000,
  "replyCount": 722,
  "replyToCid": null,
  "type": "comment",
  "publishedTimeText": "6 years ago",
  "authorIsChannelOwner": false,
  "hasCreatorHeart": true,
  "isPinned": false,
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "commentsCount": 1600000
}

• type is comment for a top-level comment, reply for a reply; replyToCid is the parent comment's cid, null for a top-level comment.
• voteCount/replyCount are 0 when YouTube shows no likes or replies yet, and null only when the figure is missing from YouTube's response.
• hasCreatorHeart is true when the channel owner hearted that comment. isPinned is true for the comment the creator pinned on top.
• commentsCount is the video's total comment count, the same on every row.

Pricing

1 USD per 1,000 comments, all fields included, replies counted the same as top-level comments.

There is no minimum charge per run: 100 comments from one video cost 0.10 USD. Error rows are free, and there's no monthly fee or Apify platform usage on top.

Example: 500 comments each from 10 videos (5,000 comments) costs 5 USD.

Good to know

• Including replies adds one extra request per thread that has any, so a video with many long threads takes longer to finish.
• With replies on, each thread's replies come right after their parent comment and count toward Max comments per video. A small limit can therefore return only a few threads with all their replies: raise the limit if you want more top-level comments.
• The oldestCommentDate field of other comment scrapers is accepted but ignored: YouTube only gives relative dates ("3 days ago"). Sort by newest first and set a limit instead.
• This actor only scrapes comments. For the video itself, our YouTube Scraper gets views, likes and metadata; our YouTube Transcript Scraper gets captions.
• You don't need a proxy, a YouTube account or a YouTube API key.

Use it from n8n, Make or an API

• Small inputs: call run-sync-get-dataset-items and read the items back directly. Set Time budget (seconds) (default 240) to how long you are willing to wait: the actor stops picking up new videos before that point and returns what it already has, so you never hit Apify's 300 second run-sync limit and lose the whole run. Any video left unfinished comes back as a TIME_BUDGET_EXCEEDED row instead of being silently dropped.
• Big inputs: start the run with POST /v2/acts/vakitek~youtube-comments/runs, poll GET /v2/actor-runs/<runId> (or add waitForFinish=60) until the status is SUCCEEDED, then read GET /v2/datasets/<datasetId>/items. Set Time budget (seconds) to 0 (no limit) for this pattern.

Errors

A bad input never crashes the run. It becomes a row with an error code, and you are not charged for it.

error	What happened	Retry?
NOT_FOUND	The URL or id doesn't match a real video	No
NO_RESULTS	The video has no comments	No
COMMENTS_DISABLED	The creator turned comments off for this video	No
INVALID_INPUT	The video input could not be read	No
BLOCKED	YouTube refused us for now, even after trying every proxy tier	Yes
UPSTREAM_ERROR	Something went wrong on YouTube's side or ours	Yes
UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE	Our API was unreachable	Yes
TIME_BUDGET_EXCEEDED	The time budget ran out before this video finished	Yes

FAQ

How many comments can I get per video? Up to 100,000. Set Max comments per video as high as you need.

I already use another YouTube comments actor. Do I have to change my code? Probably not. The output field names follow the most used comments scraper on the Store.

Can I call it from my code or from an AI agent? Yes, like any Apify actor: REST API, the Python and JavaScript clients, or the Apify MCP server. The examples are in the API tab.

Something broke or a field is missing? Open an issue on this page. We read every one and usually answer within a day.