YouTube Comments Scraper API
Fetch YouTube comments and replies with author metadata, timestamps, and like counts. Filter by hot, top, or new. Built for sentiment work, moderation pipelines, and community research.
- Comments with author + like counts
- Filter by hot, top, or new
- Works with videos and Shorts
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See It in Action
Getting started is simple and takes just minutes. Explore the interactive examples below to see exactly how the API works before using it in your own workflow.
Pick a video
Any YouTube video or Shorts URL works the same way.
Send the request
Pick the format you'd use in your own stack, then hit Execute.
curl -X GET "https://api.socialkit.dev/youtube/comments?access_key=%7B%7Byour_access_key%7D%7D&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DS8zhnXZdTFM"
Get the response
Clean JSON with comments, authors, like counts, and timestamps.
Hit Execute above to send the request and see the captured response.
Integrate with Your Favorite No-Code Platform
Use Zapier, Make, n8n or any other no-code platform using our native connection or by using the access token.
Everything You Need From a YouTube Comments API
Extract comments and replies with author metadata, like counts, and structured fields ready for sentiment, moderation, and audience research.
Author & Thread Metadata
Get author name, channel URL, reply count, and threading info for every comment in a single response.
Timestamps & Ordering
Each comment includes publish time and ordering data so you can build timeline views and recency-weighted analysis.
Structured Output
Receive developer-friendly JSON with clean fields — no HTML to parse, no scraping logic to maintain.
Powerful Filtering
Filter comments by hot, top, or new to surface the signal that matters for your use case.
Insight & Sentiment Ready
Clean text + like counts make it straightforward to pipe comments into NLP, sentiment, and topic-clustering pipelines.
Moderation Signals
Use like counts and author metadata as inputs to your moderation, spam-detection, or community-health systems.
Simple REST API
Integrate using Python, Node.js, PHP, Java, Go, Zapier, Make, n8n, Airtable, or any platform that supports HTTP requests.
No Browser Automation Required
Skip Puppeteer, Selenium, proxy rotation, and ongoing scraper maintenance. Send a URL and get comment data in JSON.
What developers say
Teams shipping with SocialKit in production.
"It was very easy to set up and get going, and support was superb."
Ziv Erlichson, Founder at Plynn
"Quick, caring and efficient support!"
Thomas Puech, Designer
"Easy to connect - work's smooth and properly!"
Robert Podsiadlo, Founder at PrimeStuff
What Teams Are Building With YouTube Comment Data
From sentiment work to community management, comment data powers research, moderation, and intelligence workflows.
Sentiment Analysis
Pipe comment text into NLP models to score sentiment, detect emotions, and track how an audience reacts to specific videos or campaigns.
User Feedback Collection
Aggregate honest feedback from real audiences without surveys — comments often surface product issues, feature requests, and language users actually use.
Community Management
Monitor brand mentions and creator communities across YouTube to spot conversations that need a response, escalation, or amplification.
Competitive Intelligence
Read competitor video comments to learn what their customers love, complain about, and ask for — a direct line to unmet needs.
Social Listening
Track how the YouTube audience talks about a topic, brand, person, or product over time to inform positioning and messaging.
Content Moderation
Use like counts, author metadata, and comment text as features for moderation pipelines that surface spam, toxicity, or policy violations.
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- 360 requests / minute
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