YouTube Comments Scraper

The YouTube Comments Scraper is a Claude skill that pulls the latest comments from any YouTube video into a markdown table, CSV, or Excel file. Paste one link, get hundreds of comments back. In seconds.

The Problem

Ever tried to actually read every comment on a YouTube video? It sounds simple. It is not.

You open the video. You scroll past the description and the chapters. The "next up" sidebar pulls your cursor every time you mouse near it. The comments load. Then they don't. You click "show more replies" and the page jumps. You try to sort by newest and a popup asks if you want to log in. You log in. The sort resets. By the time you've actually read fifty comments, you've forgotten what you were looking for.

So you start copy-pasting one comment at a time into a Google Doc. You hit two hundred and quit. There's no export button. There's no "give me a CSV." You're staring at a UI built for autoplay, trying to do research.

This skill ends that loop. Hand Claude a YouTube link, get every comment back in seconds as markdown, CSV, or Excel.

What this Claude skill does

• Pulls comments from any public YouTube video: watch URLs, short links, Shorts, embeds, or raw 11-char IDs all work.
• Exports as markdown, CSV, Excel, or JSON: asks you which format before running, then writes one clean file.
• Sorts by newest or top: sort newest for fresh reactions or sort by top for the comments YouTube's own algorithm surfaces first.
• Captures the full row per comment: author, posted time, likes, reply count, comment ID, and the full body with multi-line text preserved.
• Tags the creator's own comments: if the comment author is the video's uploader, the row gets a creator badge so you can filter for the pinned response or replies.
• Names the file from the video title: day-287-growing-my-saas-startup-to-1m-comments.csv, not aBcD1234XyZ-comments.csv. Easy to find later.

Why it's amazing!

• Stop scrolling and copy-pasting comments by hand.
• Analyze hundreds of comments in a spreadsheet instead of a browser tab.
• See themes across a video's entire reaction at a glance.
• Pair it with a transcript and get the full picture in one folder.

Who it's for

Anyone who reads YouTube comments for a reason. Content Creators auditing their own video reactions, founders studying competitor channels, social teams pulling sentiment for monthly reports, researchers analyzing public discourse, content strategists hunting for follow-up video ideas. Anyone who's lost an afternoon scrolling a comments section trying to find a pattern.

How it works

Ask Claude something like:

• "Scrape the comments on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aQ01ZKysl8"
• "Pull the top 200 comments on Alex Hormozi's latest as an Excel file."
• "Grab comments from these five videos and combine into one CSV."
• "I'm researching how indie SaaS founders talk about pricing. Pull comments from this video and tell me the top themes."
• "What are people asking in the comments on my newest upload?"
• "Get the comments on this Short as markdown."

You'll get a clean file back, named after the video itself:

day-287-growing-my-saas-startup-to-1m-comments.csv

#  author              posted        likes  replies  comment
1  @alex-hormozi (creator) 1 month ago   16     0        If you're a regular viewer of the channel...
2  @user-is9cv9cg9v    1 day ago     0      0        this has become my favorite channel now :)
3  @GatisStrods        6 days ago    0      0        How do you get traffic to test your products?
4  @MononokeStudios    2 weeks ago   0      0        My ever have question in my head is are we...
5  @WhiskerWonders19   2 weeks ago   0      0        Just curious, how much tokens do you use?
6  @PhumlaMbuli        3 weeks ago   0      0        My home country!! I hope you had a lovely time here!

Pair it with the YouTube transcript skill and you'll have the full audio plus the audience reaction in one folder, ready to feed back into the same Claude conversation for analysis.

Pairs well with these other skills

This scraper gets the raw comments into a file — these skills help you decide what to scrape and what the comments are telling you:

• User Feedback Analyzer Skill: Point it at the comment file and get back themes, sentiment, and a ranked read of what your audience is actually saying.
• YouTube Transcript Generator Skill: Pull the transcript of the same video so you have the full content plus the audience reaction side by side.
• YouTube Channel Scraper Skill: Scrape a whole channel first, sort by views, then run this on the top videos to mine the reaction to the ones that hit.
• Content Ideas Generator Skill: The questions people keep asking in the comments are content ideas — turn them into your next videos and posts.

FAQ

Does it cost anything to run?

Effectively free. It runs on your existing Claude subscription plus an external API that hands out a generous free quota. Enough for around 500,000 comments a day before you'd ever hit a limit. Most people never come close.

Does it pull replies to comments?

No. Top-level comments only. That's where most of the signal lives anyway, and pulling replies on every scrape would chew through quota for marginal value.

How many comments can I pull from one video?

As many as the video has. Default is the latest 100. Pass "limit 500" or "limit 2000" to go deeper. Each page of 100 comments costs 1 quota unit.

Can it scrape private or members-only videos?

No. Public videos only. Anything behind a paywall, age gate, or membership tier is invisible to the API.

Does it analyze sentiment or pull out themes?

Not on its own. Once the file is created, ask Claude in the same conversation "what are the top themes in this file?" and you get an analysis on top of the export.

Will it reply to comments for me?

No. Read-only. The skill pulls the data. What you do with it is your call.

Does it work with YouTube Shorts?

Yes. Shorts URLs, watch URLs, youtu.be short links, embeds, and live URLs all parse to the same video ID.

Does it remember what I've already scraped?

The output file is named after the video title, so re-running on the same video overwrites it. If you want a history, rename the file after each run or pass --output with your own path.

Safe To Install

Please read before installing. Any skill you copy online is someone else's code running inside your Claude, and a lot of what's out there should give you pause. Most authors who give skills away don't give a second thought to quality or security. Most are vibe-coded slop pushed out untested, and some are the occasional bad actor hiding an exploit in plain sight. (Read about OpenClaws ClawHub security nightmare). Every skill we publish is vetted by a programmer with 20+ years of professional experience and checked line by line for anything that touches your files without reason. With Stim-Pack Studios Claude Skills, you get peace of mind knowing you're installing safe, vetted code, not a stranger's guess.

Add it to your Claude workflow

If you're looking for Claude skills to add to your workflow, this one earns its slot. It collapses an hour of scrolling and copy-pasting into a single conversation and one clean file.

Get the YouTube Comments Scraper Claude skill and read what your audience is actually saying without losing an afternoon.