# Social Comments Scraper (`ricardourtubey/social-comments-scraper`) Actor

Apify Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ricardourtubey/social-comments-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ricardo Urtubey](https://apify.com/ricardourtubey) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 comment scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Social Comments Scraper 💬

**Categoría:** Social Media | **Stack:** Python, Playwright

### Descripción

Extrae comentarios de videos de **YouTube** (y próximamente Instagram y TikTok). Obtén: texto del comentario, autor, cantidad de likes, y más. Ideal para **social listening**, análisis de engagement, y research de contenido.

### Cómo funciona

1. Ingresás URLs de videos de YouTube
2. El actor abre cada video con Playwright (navegador headless)
3. Scrollea automáticamente para cargar más comentarios
4. Extrae comentario por comentario
5. Devuelve dataset estructurado con todos los comentarios

### Features

- ✅ Scrolleo automático para carga infinita de comentarios
- ✅ Deduplicación de comentarios repetidos
- ✅ Detección automática de plataforma (auto/YouTube)
- ✅ Manejo de errores por video (sigue con el resto)

### Input

| Campo | Tipo | Default | Descripción |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `video_urls` | array | — | URLs de videos |
| `max_comments` | integer | 100 | Máx. comentarios por video |
| `platform` | enum | "auto" | auto / youtube / instagram / tiktok |

### Output

Cada item del dataset:

- `platform` — Red social
- `author` — Nombre del autor
- `text` — Texto del comentario
- `likes` — Cantidad de likes
- `comment_number` — N° de comentario

### Pricing Sugerido

Pay-per-result: **$0.001 por comentario** (mín. $0.50 por ejecución)

# Actor input Schema

## `video_urls` (type: `array`):

URLs of YouTube/Instagram/TikTok videos to scrape comments from

## `max_comments` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of comments to extract per video

## `platform` (type: `string`):

Platform to scrape (auto-detect, youtube, instagram, tiktok)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "video_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    }
  ],
  "max_comments": 100,
  "platform": "auto"
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "video_urls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ricardourtubey/social-comments-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "video_urls": [{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ricardourtubey/social-comments-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "video_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call ricardourtubey/social-comments-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ricardourtubey/social-comments-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/j6jgEYufXyBgdo1wI/builds/Upgfk36hIZTTZ9l8J/openapi.json