Search inside YouTube video Comments for Free

Wanna get YouTube video comments via their API for free? This YouTube comments Downloader tool helps you get ALL the possible comments for free from both, YouTube Shorts and regular YouTube Videos

Then later you can search inside the YouTube video comments for all the profitable data and extract, export, generate, retrieve it for various purposes ~~...~~

📥 Download Comments Tool

❓ Tutorial for YouTube API Key

🔑 Save API Key in Browser

Caveat: YouTube currently supports replies only for top-level comments, however, replies to replies may be supported in the future

How it Works in general ?

There are 2 free parts to all of this:
* Part 1 of 2 is this YouTube comments tool
* Part 2 of 2 is your API key from YouTube

Both Free ? Yes ...

Both are free:
* This very tool (Share it Please)
* Your API key from YouTube
(No ~~trials~~, it's all free immediately, at no monetary cost)

Your Profits from Comments

In just a few seconds turn comments from promoted via algorithm YouTube videos into profitable and usable data, or actionable insights for various purposes: research, marketing, journalism, content creation, data-driven decisions, and more ~~...~~

Informational Queries

The primary intent of an informational query is to obtain answers or information ~~...~~
For example, find names of unknown songs from the respective video in the comments section

Earn Money via Gigs

You can earn money online from home if you choose to go the freelance route and use this very tool to sell gigs or provide services to your audiences ~~...~~

For instance, export video comments onto your computer and sell them to your colleagues, friends, audiences on social media ~~...~~

Competitive Analysis

Analyzing comments on videos of your competitors should likely give you an unfair advantage or strategic edge ~~...~~

Sentiment Analysis

Track mentions of your brand-name to understand: sentiment, public opinion, attitude ~~...~~ towards your brand

Content Strategy

Use the comments section of YouTube videos to identify primary topics of discussion and reinforce your content strategy as a content creator or influencer ~~...~~

Audience Engagement

Discover trends, popular topics, gain direct feedback from your audience insights through the YouTube comments section, to analyze and understand: preferences, expectations, dislikes ~~...~~ of viewers

Your Benefits from this Tool

Are you stuck in a slow and boring loop of copying comments from YouTube videos manually or spending money on costly scrapers monthly ? Notice, now there is a much better, free and automated way that will benefit you and save you time and money ~~...~~
Discover this YouTube comments tool:

Official API Endpoints

This very tool supports only the free official YouTube API endpoints, that help you retrieve video comments ~~...~~
No third-party illegal scrapers, nor illegal downloaders are supported whatsoever

Shorts and Videos (YouTube)

It's achievable to get video comments from both, Shorts and Videos on YouTube by using this very tool ~~...~~

All possible Comments

By All possible Comments it's meant that both, top-level comments (threads), as well as replies to the top-level comments are being legally scraped for you ~~...~~

Caveat: YouTube currently supports replies only for top-level comments, however, replies to replies may be supported in the future

No Coding, No Programming

The web development stuff have been taken care of, for you for free ~~...~~ So, no coding, nor programming is needed on your part, now you only need a free API key to extract all possible comments from various YouTube videos

No Sign-Up, No Registration

No sign-up & no registration (no user account) is required to use this very tool to extract comments from various YouTube videos

JSON Output

The powerful JSON output file format includes the following:
* date and time
* threads' texts
* replies' texts
* likes' counts
* authors' info
* and more ~~...~~

No Limits and Free

This very tool could have gotten some hidden API keys as an app under the hood, for everybody to use and charge everyone money for using it to download comments from YouTube videos ~~...~~

But actually maybe it's a bad idea for all of us, therefore this very tool is~~n't~~ going to be behind a paywall anytime soon

What this Tool cannot do ?

Caveat: this very tool supports neither API authentication, nor API authorization via YouTube, at the moment only API keys are supported

No Live-Chat Messages

So, what it means is that, for example this very tool cannot be used to extract live-chat messages from YouTube livestreams, both, those that have ended as well as those that are still being recorded in real time ~~...~~

Because again, any combination of Auth and YouTube's API endpoints is~~n't~~ supported by this very tool yet

So for example, if a live-broadcast that has ended, typically has both video comments as well as live-chat messages, then you can only retrieve the video comments, not the live-chat messages by using this very tool

No Community Tab Posts

Any video channel on YouTube has some tabs:
Videos tab, Shorts tab, Live tab, Playlists tab, Community tab, and other tabs ~~...~~

At the moment there is~~n't~~ any existing official API endpoint that helps us retrieve posts from the Community tab ~~...~~

CSV vs JSON

At the moment, this very tool supports only the JSON file format as an export option (not CSV)

Both, JSON and CSV are just text files (not gibberish-binary)

However if you explicitly need a CSV file format, there are online converters from JSON to CSV

YouTube video ID is What Exactly ?

Video ID Examples:
~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyxYXyxYxYx~~
~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyxYXyxYxYx&t=120~~
~~https://youtu.be/XyxYXyxYxYx~~
~~https://youtu.be/XyxYXyxYxYx?t=120~~

From the links above, the video ID is this part: ~~XyxYXyxYxYx~~, from each entire link ~~...~~
Each YouTube video has its own unique ID

What is an API Key Exactly ?

An API key, which you get from YouTube or rather from Google Cloud Console for YouTube Data API v3 is a free key, that allows you to retrieve all the needed public information, from YouTube and more, such as: comments, likes, views, and other cool stuff ~~...~~

An API key looks something like this: ~~XXyyXyXXXyyXXXyXXXyXyyyyXXyXyXyyyXyyyyX~~
Or perhaps like this: ~~XXXyXyyXyXyXXyXXyXyyXXyyXXyXyyXyyXXyyXy~~
As you can see an API key is just a unique string of text, that includes: letters, digits, and maybe some other symbols too ~~...~~

API Term Defined

API = Application Programming Interface

By the way, the sole term API endpoint or simply the word API, in a nutshell essentially means that users/humans interact with programs/apps via API endpoints by means of: semi-coding, full-coding, or other tech ~~...~~

So therefore, an API endpoint is just a man in the middle program/app that connects users/humans with other programs/apps via itself, by making users/humans adhere to certain rules ~~...~~

For example in our case such as an API key, to control the process of extraction of comments from YouTube videos so that process is~~n't~~ abused, and so on ~~...~~

Quotas and API Keys

Your free API key works with a daily quota of 10K units, to guarantee that the services of Google/YouTube are used properly and do~~n't~~ create any hurdles for others, one API call (including bad requests) costs at least one unit ~~...~~

So, in order to retrieve ~~let's say~~ 2501 top-level comments only by using this very tool (100 threads per page/call), you will spend 26 units from your daily quota ~~...~~ And that leaves you with 9974 more units to spend on demand, until your daily quota resets back to 10K units the next day again

Secured API Keys

Please remember that your API key must stay secret, at all times, do~~n't~~ share it with anyone ~~...~~
Except for this very tool which, if you choose so, only stores your API keys in your browser as cookies, but never in a database server-side