comment-mining — Claude Code skill: what it does, how to install
Mines public social media comments to uncover audience questions, objections, content ideas, and buying intent.
npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --skill comment-mining -a claude-codeWhat comment-mining does
The skill extracts audience feedback from posts and videos on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Rumble. It calls ScrapeCreators endpoints via WebFetch or Bash. Instead of flattening reactions into simple sentiment metrics, it categorizes remarks into specific buckets such as objections, confusion, pain points, feature requests, and buying signals.
The workflow follows five defined stages. The agent fetches comments with pagination, filters out obvious spam while preserving slang and raw phrasing, classifies entries, and clusters recurring themes. The final report highlights representative quotes, issue frequency, and concrete angles for marketing copy or product development.
You must set the SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY environment variable. Without this API key, data retrieval endpoints fail immediately.
What it helps with
- extract comments and reply threads across supported social platforms
- identify customer objections and pain points from public feedback
- generate content ideas based on common audience questions
- capture authentic customer phrasing for landing page copy
Example prompts for the agent
- Analyze comments on the latest YouTube video and summarize top buyer objections.
- Mine comments from this Reddit discussion to find recurring product feature requests.
- Extract exact audience quotes and pain points from an Instagram Reel.
How to install comment-mining
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --skill comment-mining -a claude-code2Manually: put the files in place
~/.claude/skills/comment-mining/SKILL.mdCopy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/comment-mining/
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --skill comment-mining -a codex2Manually: put the files in place
.agents/skills/comment-mining/SKILL.mdFor all projects use ~/.agents/skills/
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --skill comment-mining -a cursor2Manually: put the files in place
.cursor/skills/comment-mining/SKILL.mdCursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/
1GitHub CLI
gh skill install ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills comment-mining2Manually: put the files in place
.github/skills/comment-mining/SKILL.md1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --skill comment-mining -a gemini-cli2Platform CLI
gemini skills install https://github.com/ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --path skills/comment-miningManually: put the files in place
.devin/skills/comment-mining/SKILL.mdThe legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works
Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --skill comment-mining -a opencodeClaude.ai
Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills
Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways
Questions about comment-mining
How do I install comment-mining in Claude Code?
Run npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --skill comment-mining -a claude-code. The skill file will be placed in ~/.claude/skills/comment-mining/SKILL.md.
What does comment-mining do?
It gathers comments from social media posts, cleans out spam, and structures user reactions into questions, objections, and verbatim customer quotes.
What prerequisites are needed for comment-mining?
You must configure the SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY environment variable. The skill relies on it to call ScrapeCreators comment endpoints.
Source text
SKILL.md · MIT
---
name: comment-mining
description: Use when the user wants to mine comments and replies for audience reactions, customer language, questions, objections, complaints, product ideas, buying intent, sentiment, or voice-of-customer insights from public social posts and videos.
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, WebFetch
version: 1.0.0
author: ScrapeCreators
license: MIT
homepage: https://scrapecreators.com
repository: https://github.com/ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills
metadata:
openclaw:
requires:
env:
- SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY
primaryEnv: SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY
homepage: https://scrapecreators.com
tags:
- social-media
- research
- scrapecreators
---
# Comment Mining
## Overview
Mine public comments for what people actually ask, complain about, want, misunderstand, or repeat. The output should help with product research, content ideas, copywriting, objection handling, and audience understanding.
## When to Use
Use this skill when the user asks to:
- analyze comments on a TikTok, YouTube video, Instagram Reel, Facebook post, Reddit post, or Rumble video
- find audience questions, objections, complaints, or buying intent
- extract voice-of-customer language
- find content ideas from comments
- understand sentiment around a post, creator, product, or topic
## Comment Sources
| Platform | Endpoint |
|---|---|
| TikTok comments | `/v1/tiktok/video/comments` |
| TikTok replies | `/v1/tiktok/video/comment/replies` |
| YouTube comments | `/v1/youtube/video/comments` |
| YouTube replies | `/v1/youtube/video/comment/replies` |
| Instagram comments | `/v2/instagram/post/comments` |
| Facebook comments | `/v1/facebook/post/comments` |
| Facebook replies | `/v1/facebook/post/comment/replies` |
| Reddit comments | `/v1/reddit/post/comments` |
| Rumble comments | `/v1/rumble/video/comments` |
## Workflow
1. **Fetch comments**
- Use the post/video URL whenever possible.
- Paginate when the endpoint supports it and the user wants depth.
- Preserve comment text, author if public, like/upvote count, timestamp, and source URL.
2. **Clean lightly**
- Remove obvious spam/duplicates.
- Keep slang, misspellings, and emotional wording if it is useful customer language.
- Do not over-normalize exact quotes.
3. **Classify each useful comment**
Use these buckets:
- questions
- objections
- complaints/pain points
- praise
- confusion
- requests/feature ideas
- buying intent
- controversy/debate
- jokes/memes/culture signals
4. **Cluster themes**
- Group similar comments.
- Score themes by frequency and intensity.
- Highlight exact quotes for each theme.
5. **Turn insights into actions**
Depending on the user's goal, produce:
- content ideas
- FAQ ideas
- landing page copy angles
- product ideas
- objection-handling bullets
- sales/support notes
## Output Format
```markdown
# Comment Mining Report
## Summary
- Source(s): {urls}
- Comments analyzed: {count}
- Confidence: High/Medium/Low
## Top Themes
| Theme | Type | Frequency | Intensity | Representative quote |
|---|---|---:|---|---|
## Audience Questions
- "..."
## Objections and Concerns
- **Objection:** ...
- Evidence: "..."
- Response angle: ...
## Buying Intent / Demand Signals
- "..."
## Exact Language to Reuse
- "..."
- "..."
## Content Ideas From Comments
1. ...
2. ...
```
## Quality Guardrails
- Label sample size and confidence.
- Separate one loud comment from a repeated pattern.
- Preserve exact quotes for useful language.
- Avoid claiming broad market sentiment from one post's comments.
- Call out moderation/platform bias when relevant.
## Common Pitfalls
- Do not flatten comments into generic sentiment. The value is in questions, objections, and exact wording.
- Do not include personally identifying details unless they are already public and necessary.
- Do not treat bot/spam comments as audience signal.
- Do not skip Reddit post context. For Reddit, read both the original post and comments.
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