Youtube Comment Scraper

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🧠 YouTube Comment Scraper

This Apify actor automatically scrapes comments from YouTube videos. It extracts structured comment data such as author, text, timestamps, likes, and more — perfect for social media analysis, sentiment research, and community engagement studies.

✅ Use Cases

📊 Analyze audience sentiment and feedback

💬 Monitor community discussions and trends

🏷️ Perform content analysis and engagement studies

🧭 Conduct competitive analysis on video performance

📥 Input Configuration

You can customize the actor using the following input fields:

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

🧾 Fields Explained Field Type Description videoUrls array List of YouTube video URLs to scrape comments from maxComments number Maximum number of comments to extract from each video 📤 Output

The actor returns a dataset containing an array of video objects with their comments. Each record includes video details and an array of extracted comments.

🧩 Sample Output

[
{
"videoId":"dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"videoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title":"Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)",
"channelName":"Rick Astley",
"channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@RickAstley",
"publishedDate":"2009-10-25",
"views":1234567890,
"likes":15000000,
"commentCount":100,
"duration":"3:33",
"description":"The official video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.",
"comments":[
{
"commentId":"Ugx1aBcD2efGhiJkl",
"author":"John Doe",
"authorChannelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@JohnDoe",
"commentText":"Still a classic! ❤️",
"publishedTime":"1 day ago",
"likeCount":420,
"replyCount":2
},
{
"commentId":"Ugx2bCdE3fGhIjKlM",
"author":"MusicLover123",
"authorChannelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@MusicLover123",
"commentText":"I came here again in 2025. Still legendary!",
"publishedTime":"3 hours ago",
"likeCount":128,
"replyCount":0
}
]
}
]

🔒 Proxy Configuration

This actor uses Apify Proxy automatically to:

Avoid IP-based rate limiting or bans

Ensure stable scraping at scale

Default proxy settings use:

{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]
}

🚀 How to Use

Open the actor in Apify Console

Click "Try actor" or create a new task

Enter your YouTube video URLs and max comments

Run the actor

Download your comment data in JSON, CSV, or Excel format

⚙️ Advanced Input Example

{
"videoUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
"maxComments":100,
"headless":true,
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]
},
"maxConcurrency":5,
"minDelayBetweenRequestsMs":1000,
"maxRequestRetries":3,
"requestHandlerTimeoutSecs":60
}

🛠️ Tech Stack

🧩 Apify SDK — for actor and data handling

🕷️ Crawlee — for robust crawling and scraping

🌐 Puppeteer — for browser automation and rendering dynamic content

⚙️ Node.js — fast, scalable backend environment