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[ ✨YouTube Comments Scraper ] Fast & Reliable Scraper Extract CID, type, publish time, comments, author & page URL in seconds Streamline workflow, save time & gather structured data Perfect for research, analysis & business insights .

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$9.99/month + usage

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🎥 YouTube Comments Scraper

Quickly extract structured comment data from one or more YouTube videos — including comment text, author info, timestamps, votes, and raw fields.

Built to run as an Apify actor. This README shows a summary, inputs, outputs, examples, troubleshooting tips and proxy recommendations. 🔧

✨ Summary

This actor scrapes comments from YouTube video URLs and returns structured JSON objects per video, including:

  • 💬 Comments (text, id, author, replies, likes/votes, timestamps)
  • 👤 Author info (author name, author id, author url, avatar if available)
  • 🧾 Video metadata (video id, video url, title, best-effort commentsCount)
  • 📦 Raw payload — the original raw comment object is preserved for every comment so you don’t lose any fields.

Key points:

  • Input: one or more YouTube video URLs (startUrls).
  • Optional: maxComments to limit how many comments per video are scraped.
  • Optional: getAllComments to ignore maxComments and fetch all available comments.
  • Optional: sortBy — top (highest votes first) or newest (most recent first).

🚀 Highlights

  • ⚡ Fast, structured output — one JSON object per video run.
  • 🧩 Preserves full raw comment object for custom fields.
  • 🎯 Exact maxComments support (when getAllComments is false) and getAllComments toggle.
  • 🌐 Proxy-aware (Apify Proxy recommended for stability) — use RESIDENTIAL for best results.
  • 🔁 Supports sorting by top or newest.

🛠️ Example Input

{
"startUrls":[
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT4HcYAeV5U",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l0q4l2NLo"
],
"maxComments":100,
"sortBy":"top",
}

📤 Output

For every video the actor writes results both to the Apify dataset and to container files:

  • output_<videoId>.json — full JSON object for the video (including comments array).
  • comments_<videoId>.jsonl — newline-delimited JSON with one comment per line (good for streaming).
  • Apify dataset entry for each video — downloadable from the Apify Console. ☁️

Example output (one video object)

{
"videoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT4HcYAeV5U",
"videoId":"wT4HcYAeV5U",
"title":"YouTube",
"commentsCount":null,
"comments":[
{
"cid":"Ugxl_IUyS2PaN9t-_wV4AaABAg",
"type":"comment",
"publishedTimeText":"7 hours ago",
"publishedTimeTs":1759729079.617027,
"comment":"Madhubanti + Rashmika = 🔥",
"author":"@maddockfilmsindia",
"authorId":null,
"authorUrl":null,
"authorThumbnail":null,
"replyCount":7,
"voteCount":5,
"isHearted":false,
"isEdited":false,
"raw":{
"cid":"Ugxl_IUyS2PaN9t-_wV4AaABAg",
"text":"Madhubanti + Rashmika = 🔥",
"time":"7 hours ago",
"author":"@maddockfilmsindia",
"channel":"UCGgi8DSEirlGCQ3B3bO5BsQ",
"votes":"5",
"replies":"7",
"photo":"https://yt3.ggpht.com/bhYAlBYCO9k-CfeGL42c3db-vBGi-3vLwQFgXWrQgHAstpaqE5LxHdIHDYdJ0RVje0-v5j7RLQ=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"heart":false,
"reply":false,
"time_parsed":1759729079.616943
},
"videoId":"H6l0q4l2NLo",
"pageUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l0q4l2NLo"
},
{
"cid":"UgxR7iZmrx-cvVYyIZJ4AaABAg",
"type":"comment",
"publishedTimeText":"10 hours ago",
"publishedTimeTs":1759718280.088529,
"comment":"This song honestly has the soul of Aaj Ki Raat.\nFeels like Sachin–Jigar were asked to recreate that same vibe — and they pulled it off.\nJust try singing Aaj Ki Raat over this track and you’ll get exactly what I mean",
"author":"@saho_x",
"authorId":null,
"authorUrl":null,
"authorThumbnail":null,
"replyCount":1,
"voteCount":4,
"isHearted":false,
"isEdited":false,
"raw":{
"cid":"UgxR7iZmrx-cvVYyIZJ4AaABAg",
"text":"This song honestly has the soul of Aaj Ki Raat.\nFeels like Sachin–Jigar were asked to recreate that same vibe — and they pulled it off.\nJust try singing Aaj Ki Raat over this track and you’ll get exactly what I mean",
"time":"10 hours ago",
"author":"@saho_x",
"channel":"UCnVC00Vv0foM0EKkz6Y1iWQ",
"votes":"4",
"replies":"1",
"photo":"https://yt3.ggpht.com/TUTguFWKoy3k8SUTycBbxzhJ3T7B6enA0MGQqsE77VSCl8YeL4p8dK9iZu1QZ5gqGj_IWqN3=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"heart":false,
"reply":false,
"time_parsed":1759718280.088388
},
"videoId":"H6l0q4l2NLo",
"pageUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l0q4l2NLo"
},
{
"cid":"UgyDoXT2Qt9yi8s_K0V4AaABAg",
"type":"comment",
"publishedTimeText":"16 hours ago",
"publishedTimeTs":1759696680.562509,
"comment":"Thama Massive Hit Hai 💯🔥",
"author":"@KAMALBOLTAHAI",
"authorId":null,
"authorUrl":null,
"authorThumbnail":null,
"replyCount":0,
"voteCount":2,
"isHearted":false,
"isEdited":false,
"raw":{
"cid":"UgyDoXT2Qt9yi8s_K0V4AaABAg",
"text":"Thama Massive Hit Hai 💯🔥",
"time":"16 hours ago",
"author":"@KAMALBOLTAHAI",
"channel":"UC7QK8aH2kx8kV3ZDb78gudg",
"votes":"2",
"replies":"",
"photo":"https://yt3.ggpht.com/-dSC3L4wVQlPFXaE1DQ0pa861J_1gJmKr0whQ_OBAVuC_du6rp3UNXtb9mIImMk2akwNfj1-=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"heart":false,
"reply":false,
"time_parsed":1759696680.562357
},
"videoId":"H6l0q4l2NLo",
"pageUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l0q4l2NLo"
},
{
"cid":"UgxjmCCpexYiRfqxtOZ4AaABAg",
"type":"comment",
"publishedTimeText":"52 minutes ago",
"publishedTimeTs":1759751159.068628,
"comment":"🗿AAJ KI RAAT 2.0✅",
"author":"@SANJAY_GALAXY_369",
"authorId":null,
"authorUrl":null,
"authorThumbnail":null,
"replyCount":0,
"voteCount":1,
"isHearted":false,
"isEdited":false,
"raw":{
"cid":"UgxjmCCpexYiRfqxtOZ4AaABAg",
"text":"🗿AAJ KI RAAT 2.0✅",
"time":"52 minutes ago",
"author":"@SANJAY_GALAXY_369",
"channel":"UC1aOBn-22LWDKOXIEjWpaBQ",
"votes":"1",
"replies":"",
"photo":"https://yt3.ggpht.com/PgPHT8B88ib2qteQGAaQe_zQWPs5D4hQHM6xlyBijbL0paF_AUO6VPdj0eH49QCT5o_5JiVa=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"heart":false,
"reply":false,
"time_parsed":1759751159.068529
},
"videoId":"H6l0q4l2NLo",
"pageUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l0q4l2NLo"
},
{
"cid":"UgxieB4nLFkp3lMGhY94AaABAg",
"type":"comment",
"publishedTimeText":"7 hours ago",
"publishedTimeTs":1759729079.616322,
"comment":"Aaj Ki Raat 2.0 ❤",
"author":"@maddockfilmsindia",
"authorId":null,
"authorUrl":null,
"authorThumbnail":null,
"replyCount":0,
"voteCount":1,
"isHearted":false,
"isEdited":false,
"raw":{
"cid":"UgxieB4nLFkp3lMGhY94AaABAg",
"text":"Aaj Ki Raat 2.0 ❤",
"time":"7 hours ago",
"author":"@maddockfilmsindia",
"channel":"UCGgi8DSEirlGCQ3B3bO5BsQ",
"votes":"1",
"replies":"",
"photo":"https://yt3.ggpht.com/bhYAlBYCO9k-CfeGL42c3db-vBGi-3vLwQFgXWrQgHAstpaqE5LxHdIHDYdJ0RVje0-v5j7RLQ=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"heart":false,
"reply":false,
"time_parsed":1759729079.616239
},
"videoId":"H6l0q4l2NLo",
"pageUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l0q4l2NLo"
},
]
"scrapedCount":1
}

📑 Typical fields

FieldDescription
videoUrlInput video URL
videoIdYouTube video ID
titleBest-effort page title (if available)
commentsCountBest-effort comment count (may be null)
commentsArray of comment objects
comments[].cidComment unique id
comments[].commentComment text
comments[].authorAuthor display name
comments[].authorIdAuthor channel id (if available)
comments[].authorUrlAuthor channel URL (if available)
comments[].authorThumbnailAuthor avatar URL (if available)
comments[].publishedTimeTextHuman readable time (e.g. "2 days ago")
comments[].publishedTimeTsParsed timestamp (when parseable)
comments[].replyCountNumber of replies
comments[].voteCountLikes / votes count (if available)
comments[].isHeartedWhether channel owner hearted the comment
comments[].isEditedWhether the commenter edited the comment
comments[].rawFull raw object returned by underlying parser

🧩 Troubleshooting

IssuePossible CauseFix / Tip
Empty datasetWrong video URL or comments disabledVerify URLs and check video has comments; try another video.
Fewer comments than expectedmaxComments limit or generator yielded fewerSet getAllComments=true or increase maxComments
commentsCount is nullNot present in page HTMLUse comments[].raw to inspect raw payload for count
Partial metadataFields hidden or loaded dynamicallyCheck raw field; consider retries with proxy
Rate limiting / 429 errorsToo many requests without proxyUse Apify Proxy RESIDENTIAL or reduce concurrency

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