Comments are where the honest feedback lives. The like count tells you a post did well; the comments tell you why, what people loved, what they asked, what they complained about, and who your most engaged followers actually are. But reading them in the app, tapping "view more replies" a hundred times, is no way to work with them at any scale.
Exporting the comments as data changes what you can do with them. You give the tool a post or reel, and every comment comes back as a row, with the text, the person who wrote it and how many likes it got. Then you can read the whole conversation at a glance, run it through analysis, or build a list of the people worth talking to. Here is how.
What you can pull
- Every comment on a post or reel
- The username of each commenter
- How many likes each comment received
- Replies within comment threads
- A link back to the post
Why comments are worth exporting
A post's comments are a free focus group. Pull them into a table and the top-liked comments float to the top, the questions people keep asking become obvious, and the language your audience uses in their own words is right there to borrow for your copy. On a competitor's viral post, the comments often tell you exactly what their customers wish they did better, which is a gift when you are the alternative.
How to export comments with Tooltap
The Instagram Comments Scraper needs the post.
- Paste the post URLs. Add one or more Instagram post or reel links, one per line.
- Set how many comments you want per post. Pull a sample or the full thread, your call.
- Run it. Comments come back as a table with the text, the commenter and the like count.
- Sort or scan. Order by likes to surface the comments that resonated most, or read for questions and complaints.
- Export. Send it to CSV, or push the text into an AI tool to summarise the sentiment in seconds.
What people use this for
- Audience research. Read what people actually say about a topic, product or creator, in their own words and at scale.
- Sentiment analysis. Feed the comments to an AI tool and get a quick read on whether reaction is warm, mixed or hostile.
- Lead spotting. Find the people asking buying questions in the comments of relevant posts and add them to your outreach.
- Competitor insight. See what a rival's audience praises and complains about on their own posts.
Doing this properly
The tool reads the public comments on a post, the same ones visible to anyone who opens it, and returns them as data on your instruction. It works on public posts. You are only charged for the comments that come back, and how you use the data, especially if you contact people, is your responsibility: follow Instagram's terms and the privacy rules that apply to you.
Instagram Comments Scraper
Pull every comment from any Instagram post or reel, with the commenter and likes.
