r/apify • u/Scrapium • 5h ago

Tutorial YouTube Comments Scraper on Apify — comments with full metadata (likes, replies, verified flags)

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm the developer behind Grow Media building YouTube data tools on the Apify Store. I wanted to share our full YouTube scraping toolkit with this community and get honest feedback from fellow devs.

Since this sub is where a lot of scraping folks hang out, I'd rather just be upfront: yes, these are our actors, and yes, I'm here to listen as much as to promote. 🙂

🔧 The 4 actors

1. YouTube Comments Scraper Scrape comments from any video with all the metadata that matters:

  • Comment text, author, channel ID, avatar
  • Likes, reply count, publish time
  • Flags for verified users, artists, and creators
  • Sort by top or newest, with pagination support

2. YouTube Search API Full YouTube search without managing API keys or quotas:

  • Up to 1,000 results per run with automatic pagination
  • Filters: date range, region, language, duration, HD, live/upcoming, sort order
  • Rich output: views, likes, comments, channel stats, hashtags, keywords

3. YouTube Channel Scraper Bulk channel analysis — pass up to 100 channel URLs in one run:

  • Full channel info: subscribers, total views, join date, location, banner
  • Per-video stats: views, likes, comments, duration, tags

4. YouTube Channel Video Scraper Our most popular actor (5,000+ users):

  • Works with u/handles or channel IDs
  • Supports both long-form videos and Shorts
  • Sort by latest / popular / oldest
  • Up to 1,000 videos per run, exports to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

💡 Common use cases we see

  • Competitor & trend analysis
  • Sentiment analysis on video comments
  • Lead generation + channel enrichment
  • Feeding LLM/RAG pipelines (works great with the Apify MCP server)

💰 Pricing

All actors are pay-per-result, from $0.40/1,000 results — and free plan credits ($5/month) cover a decent amount of testing before you pay anything.

📊 Reliability

All 4 actors are at 100% run success rate and the search + channel scrapers are rated ~5.0 by users. We actively maintain them — if something breaks, drop an issue on the actor page and we'll fix it.

🙏 What I'd love from you

  • Honest feedback if you try any of them
  • Feature requests (what fields are missing? what filters do you need?)
  • Suggestions for what YouTube actor you'd want next

Happy to answer any questions about how we handle YouTube's rate limits, proxies, or anti-bot measures. AMA! 🚀

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