YouTube Comments Scraper

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A powerful Apify actor that extracts comments from YouTube videos with advanced filtering and customization options. Perfect for sentiment analysis, market research, content analysis, and social media monitoring.

✨ Features

• 🎯 Multi-Video Support: Scrape comments from multiple YouTube videos in a single run
• 📊 Flexible Comment Limits: Choose specific comment counts or extract all available comments
• 💬 Reply Extraction: Include comment replies for comprehensive conversation analysis
• 🔄 Smart Sorting: Order comments by "top" (most popular) or "newest" (most recent)
• 🌍 Localization: Specify country and language for region-specific content
• ⚡ High Performance: Optimized scraping with intelligent data extraction

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Usage

{
"videoUrls":[
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
]
}

Advanced Configuration

{
"videoUrls":[
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0"
],
"commentsPerVideo":500,
"scrapeAllComments":false,
"includeReplies":true,
"orderBy":"top",
"geo":"US",
"lang":"en"
}

📋 Input Configuration

The actor accepts the following configuration parameters:

Input Validation

• videoUrls must contain at least one valid YouTube URL or video ID
• geo must be a valid 2-letter country code (uppercase)
• lang must be a valid 2-letter language code (lowercase)
• commentsPerVideo must be at least 100 when specified

📤 Output Structure

The actor generates a structured dataset with the following fields for each comment:

{
"commentId":"UgwYX91Z7rTb7a6jGux4AaABAg",
"text":"This is an amazing video! Really helped me understand the concept better.",
"published":"2 days ago",
"likes":42,
"author":"John Doe",
"authorThumb":"https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AKedOLQexample",
"authorId":"UC123456789012345678",
"authorUrl":"/channel/UC123456789012345678",
"isEdited":false,
"isPinned":false,
"replyCount":3,
"replyToken":"Eg0SC1Vnd1lXOTFaN3JUYjdhNmpHdXg0QWFBQUJBZw",
"isReply":false
}

Field Descriptions

🔧 Use Cases

Market Research

Analyze customer sentiment and feedback on product-related videos to understand market trends and user preferences.

Content Analysis

Study engagement patterns and popular discussion topics to optimize content strategy.

Academic Research

Collect data for social media analysis, communication studies, and behavioral research.

Competitor Monitoring

Track comments on competitor videos to gather insights about their audience engagement.

🔌 Integrations

This actor seamlessly integrates with popular automation platforms:

• Make: Create automated workflows with YouTube comment data
• Zapier: Connect YouTube comments to 3000+ apps
• Google Sheets: Direct export to spreadsheets for analysis
• Airtable: Organize comment data in relational databases

⚠️ Important Notes

• Rate Limiting: The actor implements intelligent delays to respect YouTube's rate limits
• Comment Availability: Some videos may have comments disabled or limited by the creator
• Reply Limitations: Approximately 10 replies per comment are extracted to balance completeness and performance
• Geographic Restrictions: Some content may be region-restricted based on geo and lang settings

🤝 Support

For questions, bug reports, or feature requests drop an issue on the page.

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