Comments and replies from any YouTube video, Short, playlist, channel or search: text, author and channel, likes, reply count, pinned and creator-hearted flags, posting time and a direct link to each comment. Top comments or newest first, filters for likes and keywords, only-new alerts, and an optional AI summary per video of what viewers say.
Built for creators and channel managers, brands and agencies watching what people say about them, market and product researchers, data and AI teams building datasets, and AI agents.
Why this Actor
- Any source. Videos, Shorts, playlists, channels (their latest videos) and searches in one run.
- Replies included on request, linked to their comment.
- Filters. Minimum likes, keywords (your brand or product), excluded words, posted in the last N days.
- Only-new alerts. Schedule it with Newest first and Only new: each run returns just the comments posted since the last one. Send them to Slack, email, Google Sheets or a webhook.
- AI summary (optional) per video, so you don't have to read thousands of comments.
- Fast. About 45 comments a second on one video, several videos at once.
- For AI agents. Callable as an MCP tool.
How to use it
Top 200 comments with replies:
{ "videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"], "maxCommentsPerVideo": 200, "includeReplies": true }Watch a channel's latest videos for new comments that mention you:
{
"videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/@yourchannel"],
"maxVideosPerSource": 5,
"sortBy": "newest",
"keywords": ["refund", "broken", "support"],
"onlyNew": true
}What viewers think of the top review videos for a product:
{ "searchQueries": ["iphone 17 review"], "maxVideosPerSource": 5, "aiSummary": true }Pricing
$1 per 1,000 comments (replies count as comments) plus a small start fee per run. AI summaries, when you turn them on, are $0.02 per video, plus the model's tokens: about $0.0005 per summary with the default model (billed to your Apify account by Apify's AI gateway), or your provider's price with your own key. On the Apify free plan a run returns up to 100 comments.
Good to know
- Public comments only, as anyone sees them on YouTube; nothing behind a sign-in.
- YouTube shows comment times as "3 days ago";
publishedAtEstimateturns that into a date, so treat it as approximate. - Videos with comments turned off are listed in the run's warnings.
- Need another field? Contact tacps126@gmail.com.