YouTube Scraper: Comments, Channels & Search
InsightSocial's YouTube scraper is a free Chrome extension that exports the comments and replies under a YouTube video or Short, and the video lists of a channel, a search or your home feed, to Excel, CSV, JSON or Google Sheets. No YouTube API key and no quota. Exporting is free for 500 rows a month.
What You Can Do With YouTube Data
Comments and video lists as rows you can sort and filter
Audience Mining
Read what viewers actually think: questions, objections and requests in one file.
Content Ideas
Comment sections on popular videos are a backlog of video ideas your audience already asked for.
Sentiment Analysis
Export structured comment text with likes and dates, ready for NLP and sentiment tooling.
Creator Vetting
Judge a channel by how its audience engages before sponsoring or collaborating.
Choose Your YouTube Scraper
YouTube Comments Scraper
Export the comments and replies on a YouTube video to Excel, CSV, JSON or Google Sheets
Data you can extract:
- Comment Text
- Comment URL
- Author Name
- Author Channel ID
- + 7 more fields
YouTube Shorts Comments Scraper
Export the comments and replies on a YouTube Short to Excel, CSV, JSON or Google Sheets
Data you can extract:
- Comment Text
- Comment URL
- Author Name
- Author Channel ID
- + 7 more fields
YouTube Channel Scraper
List the videos or Shorts on any YouTube channel in Excel, CSV, JSON or Google Sheets
Data you can extract:
- Video Title
- Video URL
- Video ID
- Views
- + 8 more fields
YouTube Search Scraper
Export YouTube search results to Excel, CSV or JSON, in YouTube's own order
Data you can extract:
- Video Title
- Video URL & ID
- Result Position
- Search Query
- + 9 more fields
Watch the YouTube scraper run
200 comments and 300 replies from a National Geographic video, recorded as it ran (commenter names blurred)
How YouTube Scraping Works
Install Extension
Add InsightSocial from Chrome Web Store
Open YouTube
A video, a Short, a channel tab or a search
Click Scrape
Pick what to collect and how many
Export
Excel, CSV, JSON or Google Sheets
Where the YouTube Scraper Works
Video comments
Open a video and export its comments with replies: text, author, likes, reply count and date. 100, 250 or 500 per run.
Shorts comments
The same for a Short, opened on its own youtube.com/shorts/ page.
Channel videos and Shorts
Open a channel’s Videos or Shorts tab and export the list: title, link, views, duration and upload date (Shorts: title, link and views). 50, 200 or 500 per run.
Search results
Run a YouTube search and export the videos it returns. 50, 100 or 300 per run.
Home feed
Export the videos YouTube is recommending on your own home page.
After the comments under one video? YouTube comments scraper · A channel’s whole video list? YouTube channel scraper
YouTube scraper FAQ
Yes. Scraping is free and unlimited. Exporting is free for 500 rows a month; Pro exports 10,000 rows a month for $9.99 ($7.99 a month billed yearly). A row you already exported is free to export again.
Yes, up to the count you pick. Open the channel’s Videos tab (or its Shorts tab), choose 50, 200 or 500, and click Scrape. Each video row has the title, link, views, duration and upload date; a Short’s row has its title, link and views.
Yes. A comments run collects the replies under each comment too, and each reply row says which comment it answers. Pick 100, 250 or 500 comments per run.
No. The extension reads what YouTube shows in your own browser, so there is no API key, no Google Cloud project and no daily quota to manage.
Yes. YouTube runs keep going in a background tab. Keep the tab open until it finishes.
Prefer an API?
26 YouTube endpoints over HTTP with one API key, paid from the same credits as your exports.
Need to scrape other platforms?
The same extension covers five more platforms, plus review sites.