What is YouTube Video Comments Scraper?

YouTube Video Comments Scraper lets you extract all comments from YouTube videos, helping you analyze audience engagement, track discussions, and gather feedback with just a few clicks.

Analyze audience engagement: extract comment text, author information, votes, and reply counts to understand how viewers respond to videos Track discussions: monitor comment threads, replies, and conversation patterns across multiple videos Gather feedback: collect all comments from videos to analyze sentiment, identify common questions, or track trending topics Support research: extract structured comment data for academic research, market analysis, or content strategy development Automate comment collection: replace manual comment gathering with repeatable workflows that keep datasets fresh and consistent

The scraper bypasses YouTube's interface limitations by directly accessing the comment API, allowing you to extract all comments including nested replies, regardless of how many comments a video has.

What data does YouTube Video Comments Scraper extract?

👤 Author - The username/display name of the comment author

💬 Comment - The text content of the comment

📝 Comment ID (cid) - The unique comment ID assigned by YouTube

💬 Reply Count - The number of replies to this comment

🔗 Reply To CID - The comment ID this comment is replying to, null if it's a top-level comment

👍 Vote Count - The number of likes/upvotes the comment has received

👑 Author Is Channel Owner - Whether the comment author is the owner of the video's channel

⏰ Published Time Text - The relative time text when the comment was published (e.g., "2 days ago")

🏷️ Type - The type of comment - either a top-level "comment" or a "reply" to another comment

❤️ Has Creator Heart - Whether the video creator has "hearted" this comment

🆔 Video ID - The unique YouTube video ID that this comment belongs to

🎬 Page URL - The full URL of the YouTube video page

🔢 Comments Count - The total number of comments on the video

📺 Title - The title of the YouTube video

Features

For maximum usefulness, YouTube Video Comments Scraper has the following abilities:

Extract everything: comments, replies, author details, engagement metrics, and timestamps

Flexible input: process multiple videos in one run using URLs

Comment limit: control how many comments to scrape per video with maxComments

Sorting options: choose to sort comments by top comments or newest first

Date filtering: scrape only comments published after a specific date with oldestCommentDate

Automatic pagination: handles all comment pages and nested replies automatically

Error resilience: continues processing remaining videos even if one fails

Structured output: export data in JSON format with consistent schema for easy analysis

⬇️ Input

The input for YouTube Video Comments Scraper should be a list of video URLs. You can also configure the maximum number of comments, sorting preferences, and date filters. You can set up the input programmatically or use the fields in the Actor's interface.

Start URLs

You can provide one or more YouTube video URLs using the startUrls array to process multiple videos in a single run. Each entry should be an object with a url field. You can also import a CSV file or Google Sheet with a list of URLs.

Supported URL formats:

• Standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
• Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
• Short link: https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID

Input Parameters

Required:

• startUrls (array) - YouTube video URLs to scrape comments from

Optional:

• maxComments (integer, default: 1) - Limit the number of comments you want to scrape per video
• sortCommentsBy (string, default: "NEWEST_FIRST") - Select YouTube sorting parameter for comments:
  • "TOP_COMMENTS" = Sort by top comments
  • "NEWEST_FIRST" = Sort by newest first
• oldestCommentDate (string) - Only comments published after or on this date will be scraped. Alternatively, specify how old the scraped comments should be. Putting "1 day" will get you only today's comments, "2 days" - yesterday's and today's, and so on. Note that if you select this, sorting parameter will be auto-reset to newest first.

Example Input

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

Example Input with Date Filter

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" }
  ],
  "maxComments": 100,
  "oldestCommentDate": "2026-03-01"
}

⬆️ Output

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can find in the Output or Storage tab. Note that the output is organized in tables and tabs for viewing convenience. You can view results as a table, JSON, or other formats.

Once the run is finished, you can also download the dataset in various data formats (JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML). Before exporting, you can pick or omit specific output fields.

Table View

The table view displays all comments with their associated metadata. You can sort by video ID, author, votes, time, or other fields.

JSON Output

Here's an example of the data structure for a single comment:

{
  "author": "@ExampleUser",
  "comment": "This is a great video! Thanks for sharing.",
  "cid": "UgxAbCdEf12GhIjKl34MnOpQrStUvWx",
  "replyCount": 5,
  "replyToCid": null,
  "voteCount": 15,
  "authorIsChannelOwner": false,
  "publishedTimeText": "3 days ago",
  "commentType": "comment",
  "hasCreatorHeart": false,
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "commentsCount": 1250,
  "videoTitle": "Example Video Title"
}

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
author	string | null	The username/display name of the comment author
comment	string | null	The text content of the comment
cid	string | null	The unique comment ID assigned by YouTube
replyCount	number | null	The number of replies to this comment
replyToCid	string | null	The comment ID this comment is replying to, null if it's a top-level comment
voteCount	number | null	The number of likes/upvotes the comment has received
authorIsChannelOwner	boolean | null	Whether the comment author is the owner of the video's channel
publishedTimeText	string | null	The relative time text when the comment was published (e.g., "2 days ago")
commentType	string | null	The type of comment - either a top-level "comment" or a "reply" to another comment
hasCreatorHeart	boolean | null	Whether the video creator has "hearted" this comment
videoId	string | null	The unique YouTube video ID that this comment belongs to
pageUrl	string | null	The full URL of the YouTube video page
commentsCount	number | null	The total number of comments on the video
videoTitle	string | null	The title of the YouTube video