YouTube comments scraper

Scrape YouTube comments and replies from any video or Short, or from a channel, playlist or search. Text, author, likes, reply count, creator heart, pinned, date and exact comment total. No API key or quota. Same input and output as the popular YouTube Comments Scraper. $0.25 per 1,000 comments.

Run YouTube comments scraper on Apify

What it's for

comments and replies of YouTube videos and Shorts with likes, reply counts, creator hearts, pinned flags and dates
comments across a channel, playlist or search, optionally only since a date
YouTube comments for sentiment analysis, brand monitoring or AI datasets, without a YouTube API key or quota
drop-in replacement for other Apify YouTube comments Actors: accepts startUrls + maxComments + sortCommentsBy and startUrls + sort + maxItems, same output field names as the most used one

Price

$0.00025 per comment

Call it with curl

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/wulfcare~youtube-comments-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"   -H "content-type: application/json"   -d '{"startUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],"maxComments":100,"sortCommentsBy":"TOP_COMMENTS"}'

Call it from Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("wulfcare/youtube-comments-scraper").call(run_input={'startUrls': ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'],
 'maxComments': 100,
 'sortCommentsBy': 'TOP_COMMENTS'})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Use it from an AI agent

Add this MCP server to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=wulfcare/youtube-comments-scraper

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Replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN with the token from your Apify account. Prices are for Apify's free plan and can change.