YouTube Comments Scraper 📺💬

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Extract comments from any YouTube video efficiently and reliably. This actor helps you gather valuable user feedback and engagement data from YouTube videos.

Features ✨

• 🎯 Scrape comments from any public YouTube video
• 📊 Collect comprehensive comment data including:
  • Comment text
  • Author information
  • Likes count
  • Timestamps
  • Reply counts
• ⚡ Fast and efficient pagination handling
• 🔄 Automatic retry mechanism
• 🎚️ Configurable maximum items limit
• 🤖 Built-in anti-detection mechanisms
• 🎯 Random delays to avoid rate limiting

Use Cases 🎯

• 📈 Social media engagement analysis
• 🔍 Market research and user feedback collection
• 💡 Content strategy optimization
• 📊 Sentiment analysis
• 🎯 Competitor analysis
• 🔬 Academic research

Input Parameters 📝

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• videoUrls: Array of YouTube video URLs to scrape comments from
• maxItems: Maximum number of comments to collect

Output 📤

The actor stores results in dataset, with each record containing:

• Comment ID
• Comment text
• Author name
• Timestamp
• Likes count
• Reply count
• And more...

Need custom solutions or modifications? Feel free to reach out!

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
"videoUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hql6k88BKP8"],
"maxItems":30
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
{
"authorChannelId":"UCz3w4reqgKX2KlFK-yu05Vg",
"authorDisplayName":"@HomeOfKnockouts",
"id":"UgxMUiMBi4jbBjCzALB4AaABAg",
"isPublic":true,
"likeCount":1,
"publishedAt":"2021-05-11T11:47:04",
"textDisplay":"First",
"totalReplyCount":2,
"videoId":"hql6k88BKP8"
},
{
"authorChannelId":"UC9LsnGN_JfHUo8EaemR1E9w",
"authorDisplayName":"@baseballlife_1013",
"id":"UgxFrxqwfvFTa5vdjIZ4AaABAg",
"isPublic":true,
"likeCount":7,
"publishedAt":"2021-05-11T11:47:31",
"textDisplay":"Hi I have a question. How to I keep my eyes able to put contacts in without hurting during allergie season",
"totalReplyCount":3,
"videoId":"hql6k88BKP8"
},
 ...
]