In short: This online tool will export YouTube comments and replies as well as user names and profile URLs into a spreadsheet.
Click to view the example results file for a better idea of the output.
Why use the bulk YouTube comment extractor
This fast and simple YouTube comments exporter can be used for multiple business-related purposes, such as:
- Checking people’s perception of your videos
- Tracking users’ reactions to your competitors’ video content
- Monitoring your success rates
- Quickly removing the undesired comments
- Extracting user emails mentioned in YouTube comments
- Expanding your target audience
- And many more!
The bulk YouTube comments extractor can easily grab the following details:
- Video URL
- Nickname
- User URL
- Date
- Text
- Email from comment
- Upvotes
- Replies
- Reply 1
- Reply 2
- Reply 3
- …
How to export YouTube comments in bulk
- Sign up on Botster
- Go to the bot's start page
- Select the number of comments to export
- Select the number of comment replies to export
- Enter the video URL
- Click the "Start this bot" button.
That's it – the bot has started extracting YouTube comments!
Troubleshooting
- YouTube shows there are 100 comments but the bot returned 70, why?
The YouTube total comment counter includes:
- Actual visible comments
- Deleted comments
- Removed comments that were marked as spam
- Comment replies
- Can this bot extract comments from YouTube's user's blog posts?
No. This bot can only extract comments and comment replies that were posted under the public YouTube videos.
- Can this bot extract comments from the LIVE chat section (aka "discussion tab") of YouTube?
No. This bot can only extract comments and comment replies that were posted under the public YouTube videos.
Software walkthrough
1. Open the Launch bot form.
Click on the "Start bot" button on the right-hand side of this page to open the spider's form:
2. Enter the details.
Give your "Job" a meaningful title, and optionally specify (or create) a project folder:
3. Set the limit.
Select how many comments you would like the YouTube comment exporter to retrieve:
4. Set the bot to extract YouTube comments replies (optional).
Specify if you would like to extract comment replies, and if so, how many:
5. Set the bot to export reply authors’ names and profile URLs (optional).
Tick the checkbox if you would like the YouTube comment lookup bot to export the reply authors’ names and profile URLs:
6. Paste the YouTube video URL.
7. Specify time settings.
Tick the checkbox if you want this bot to track YouTube comments regularly:
Once you’ve ticked the checkbox, the available options will appear. You can set the bot to run:
- every day
- once a week
- twice a week
If you no longer need to export comments from YouTube, the job can be stopped either manually or at a certain date specified in advance:
Tick ‘Deliver new items only’ if you want the bot to send you updates only. If you opt for this function, it is advisable to increase the number of comments that you would like the bot to extract:
8. Set up notifications.
Specify if you would like to receive a notification when the grabber completes the crawl:
9. Start the bot!
Click the "Start this bot" button on the right-hand side:
That's it! You will be taken to your "Jobs" section. The software is now working and will notify you once it's done.
Data output
After the YouTube comments extractor completes the job you can download your data as an Excel (XLSX), CSV or JSON file.