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How to scrape YouTube Comments

Scrape public YouTube comments and replies from videos, Shorts, channels, playlists or searches: text, author, likes, reply count, creator heart, pinned, date. Top or newest, keyword/likes/date filters, monitor mode. No login.

Open YouTube Comments Scraper on Apify

Scrape public YouTube comments, and the replies under them if you want them, from any video, Short, channel, playlist or search. Every row has the comment text, the author's handle and channel, the like count, the reply count, whether the creator hearted or pinned it, and when it was posted. You can sort by top or newest, filter by keyword, likes or date, and switch on monitor mode to get only new comments on a schedule. You don't need a login, a YouTube API key or a daily quota.

• In short: YouTube Comments Scraper (Apify actor transparent_meteorite/youtube-comments-scraper) reads the public comment section that a logged-out visitor sees. It returns one flat row per comment or reply.
• Who it is for:
• brand and product teams doing sentiment analysis
• creators and agencies studying their audience
• researchers building opinion datasets
• AI teams collecting training or retrieval data
• AI agents that need "what are people saying about this video" as a tool
• Input:
• URLs: video, Shorts, channel, playlist or search page
• or plain search words, or bare video IDs
• comments per video, sorted by top or newest
• replies on or off, with a cap per comment
• filters: keyword, minimum likes, "newer than" date
• monitor mode to get only new comments
• Output: 33 fields per row, including:
• commentId, text, author, authorChannelId, authorAvatar
• likeCount, replyCount, hasCreatorHeart, isPinned, isEdited
• publishedTimeText, plus an approximate ISO date
• isReply and parentCommentId
• direct comment link
• video title, channel, views and total comment count
• Pricing: pay per event, from $1.00 per 1,000 comments on the Free plan down to $0.30 per 1,000 on Diamond, plus a $0.00005 start event. Rows that your filters remove and comments already seen in monitor mode are never charged.
• Limits: public comments only. Videos with comments turned off return no rows and cost nothing. YouTube shows comment age as "3 days ago", so dates are approximate.

What it outputs

One row per comment or reply:

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" }],
  "maxComments": 100,
  "includeReplies": true
}

Sample output

{
  "commentId": "UgzB5Hn0hc1b1Bk4dYF4AaABAg",
  "text": "Great breakdown, thanks!",
  "author": "@example_viewer",
  "authorChannelId": "UC...",
  "authorChannelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...",
  "authorIsChannelOwner": false,
  "authorIsVerified": false,
  "likeCount": 15000,
  "replyCount": 214,
  "hasCreatorHeart": true,
  "isPinned": false,
  "isEdited": false,
  "publishedTimeText": "2 years ago",
  "publishedAtApprox": "2024-10-13T12:00:00.000Z",
  "isReply": false,
  "parentCommentId": null,
  "commentUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lc=UgzB5Hn0hc1b1Bk4dYF4AaABAg",
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoTitle": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "channelName": "Rick Astley",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@RickAstleyYT",
  "videoViewCount": 1826323732,
  "videoCommentsCount": 2459088,
  "sortBy": "TOP",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T23:50:00.000Z"
}

Sample taken from the actor's README; values shown as placeholders there are placeholders.

FAQ

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