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Read the comments before you pay for Likee reach

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Say you're about to pay a Likee creator to reach people in the United States. Views and likes tell you that something was watched. They don't tell you who watched it. The comments are a better clue, because people write them in their own language and about their own concerns.

I built CleanScrape's Likee Scraper API to get those comments into a spreadsheet. I'm the developer, so this is a walkthrough of my own tool, not an independent review. An AI agent wrote this walkthrough from my run, and every number in it was checked against that run.

Start with a creator's recent videos

For the example I used Likee's official US account, @likee_usa. Open the Actor, paste the handle into Creators or video links, choose Videos and set Maximum results to 10.

You don't need a Likee account, cookies or a separate API key. You do need an Apify account to run the Actor. The same input as JSON:

{
  "targets": ["@likee_usa"],
  "mode": "videos",
  "maxResults": 10
}
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The Videos view puts each caption beside its publish date, views, likes, comment count and shares. In my run, the post with the most discussion was "Real or Mini?", with 114 comments. That's the one I wanted to read.

The counts are what Likee showed at collection time. Some come from share pages, which round them (5.90K). The countPrecision column tells you which ones are exact.

Then read the comments

Copy the video's link (in the Likee app: Share > Copy link), paste it into the same field, switch to Comments and ask for 40.

{
  "targets": ["https://likee.video/@likee_usa/video/7629882278902002999"],
  "mode": "comments",
  "maxResults": 40
}
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Here's what came back. 22 of the 40 comments were in Russian. One more was in Tajik. The most-liked comment, with 37 likes, was "В лайке есть сша?!", roughly "Is there a USA on Likee?!".

That doesn't prove where the viewers live. Language is a clue, not a location, and 40 comments from one video is a small sample. But if you were budgeting for an American audience, it's the kind of thing you want to see before paying, not after.

A note on counting: I first counted 24 comments in Cyrillic and nearly wrote "24 in Russian". Two of them weren't. If you do this check yourself, classify the language, not just the alphabet.

Export and check the report

Click Export, pick the Comments view and download CSV or Excel. The Comments view includes the text, public author name, date, likes and the video each comment belongs to. Keep the ID columns as text when you import, so spreadsheets don't round the long numbers.

Then open the run report. It shows how many comments were read, which inputs were checked and why the run stopped. In this run it stopped because it reached the 40-comment limit, not because the video ran out of comments. A finished run is not a complete history of a video's comments, and hidden or removed comments can't be collected.

Use it on the creator you're actually considering

Replace the official account with the creator you're thinking about paying. A few setups that work well:

  • One creator's recent posts: their handle, Videos, 10 results.
  • Comments on one post: its Share link, Comments, 20 to 40 results.
  • A sample across several posts: their handle, Comments, Videos per creator 3 and Comments per video 15. Maximum results is the total for the whole run, so set it to 45.

There are two ready-made examples using Likee's own accounts: compare two official accounts and read a comment sample.

Cost and limits

The base price is $1.95 per 1,000 saved videos or comments, with no startup fee. The 40-comment run above costs $0.078 at that rate, before any tier discount. Check the Pricing tab for your account's rate, and set a spending limit before larger runs.

It collects public videos and comments only. There's no keyword or hashtag search, no private content, and no guarantee of a complete history. The maximum you set is a ceiling, not a promise that the source has that many.

If you work with an AI assistant, there's also a free Likee research skill that explains the fields and how to do this kind of comment check without overclaiming.

Questions or a reproducible problem: use the Actor's Issues tab or email contact.cleanscrape@gmail.com. CleanScrape is independent of Likee.

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