Creator teams
Audience feedback
Favorable to scraping
Download YouTube comments across launch videos, group repeated requests, and review replies where the creator or community clarified the original comment.
Social Media$50Free
YouTube Comments and Replies Scraper
This YouTube comments scraper collects public comment threads and visible replies from one or more YouTube video URLs, then exports them to a structured CSV. Import the workflow into the UScraper local desktop app to capture usernames, comment text, reply text, likes, timestamps, total comment count, crawl time, and comment URLs without building against the YouTube Data API.
Output
CSV
Columns
16
Input
Video URLs
Scroll loop
65 passes
API key
Not required
At a glance
Export YouTube comments and replies to CSV
Thread-level rows
Export top-level comments with matching reply fields when replies are loaded, so a spreadsheet can show the parent comment and the conversation context side by side.
Multi-video workflow
Replace the sample Navigate URLs with your own approved watch links. Loop Continue advances through the list and appends each video's rows into the same CSV.
Local desktop run
Your URL list and export file stay in the desktop workflow unless you add your own upload, sync, or sharing step.
Research-ready fields
Use the export for comment search, moderation review, sentiment coding, creator reporting, audience research, or small training datasets.
Who this helps
Use cases for YouTube comment exports
Marketing analysts
Campaign tracking
Favorable to scraping
Compare comment volume, reply activity, and like counts across sponsored videos, product demos, or competitor uploads before building a campaign readout.
Researchers
Qualitative datasets
Favorable to scraping
Collect public discussion text with source URLs, crawl time, and video titles for coding, deduplication, annotation, or sentiment review.
For broader YouTube workflows, pair this template with the YouTube Video List Scraper, YouTube Transcript Scraper, and YouTube Video Comments Scraper. Browse the UScraper template library for related social and search templates.
How to use
Configure the YouTube replies scraper workflow
2
Paste video URLs
Replace the three sample Navigate URLs with one or more approved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... links. Keep one URL per loop input.
3
Confirm the export path
Structured Export writes youtube-comments-replies-scraper.csv with headers and append mode. Change the save folder before running client, channel, or campaign batches.
4
Run the browser loop
UScraper sets a 1920 by 1080 viewport, waits for the watch page, scrolls through comments, clicks visible read-more and reply controls, and stops when the loaded rows stabilize.
5
Open and validate the CSV
Spot-check comment URLs, video titles, parent comment text, and reply rows before using the file in reporting, AI analysis, or database imports.
Output preview
CSV columns produced by the template
The export keeps one row for each top-level comment when no replies load. When replies are visible, it repeats the parent comment fields and fills the reply fields for each reply row, which makes the CSV easy to filter by video, parent commenter, or reply author.
| video_url | video_title | comment_user | content | comment_time | like_count | dislike_count | reply_user | reply_content | reply_comment_time | reply_like_count | reply_dislike_count | post_comment_count | CrawlTime | reply_count | comment_url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123 | Product launch walkthrough | Jordan Lee | This answered the pricing question I had. | 2 weeks ago | 18 | N/A | Maya Research | Same, the reply about teams helped. | 13 days ago | 4 | N/A | 1,248 | Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:10:00 GMT | 2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123&lc=Ugx111 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=def456 | Customer story interview | Ravi Kumar | Can you share the template used in the demo? | 5 days ago | 7 | N/A | N/A | 342 | Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:13:00 GMT | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=def456&lc=Ugx222 |
youtube-comments-replies-scraper.csvColumn
video_url
The source YouTube watch URL.
Column
video_title
Visible video title from the watch page.
Column
comment_user
Top-level comment author.
Column
content
Top-level comment text after read-more expansion.
Column
comment_time
Visible publish label for the parent comment.
Column
like_count
Visible like count for the parent comment.
Column
reply_user
Reply author when replies are loaded.
Column
reply_content
Reply text paired with the parent comment.
Column
reply_count
Count of loaded replies attached to the parent thread.
Column
comment_url
Comment permalink when YouTube exposes one.
Headers included - appends across all configured YouTube watch URLs
Frequently asked questions
YouTube comments can be publicly visible, but automated collection may still be restricted by YouTube terms, robots rules, copyright, privacy law, and local regulations. Do not bypass access controls, collect private data, or republish comments without a valid basis. Get legal review before using exports commercially.
Before you run
Practical limits and maintenance notes
Operational guardrails for YouTube comment exports
Rate limits
Avoid aggressive repeated runs
YouTube may slow, block, or challenge automated sessions. Keep batches modest, avoid parallel loops, and pause when sign-in, verification, age checks, or unusual response pages appear.
Layout drift
Reply controls can change
Empty exports, missing reply text, or blank like counts usually mean YouTube changed markup, comments are disabled, or a gate screen prevented the comments section from loading.
Policy
Choose the right access path
For sanctioned, quota-backed production integrations, compare the official YouTube Data API comment thread endpoints. Use this scraper only where it fits your legal, privacy, and platform-compliance review.
Download the free template, install the desktop app from UScraper download, and run a short validation batch before you export YouTube comments at larger scale.
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What's Included
- Template JSON file ready to import
- Pre-configured scraping nodes
- Works with UScraper desktop app
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