CSV, Excel & JSONNo sign-up · Works with Shorts
YouTube Comment Downloader
Paste a video or Shorts link to export its comments with author, likes, reply count, dates and links. Free: the first 100 rows as CSV, from the newest 1,000 comments of 3 videos a day. Subscribers export every row to CSV, Excel or JSON.
How to download YouTube comments
- 1
Copy the video link
Open the video or Short on YouTube and copy its link from the address bar or the Share button.
- 2
Paste it and press Find comments
The newest 1,000 comments load right away for free. Big videos show what reading all of them costs before you continue.
- 3
Pick a format and download
Choose CSV, Excel or JSON and the order (newest, oldest or most liked), check the preview, then save the file.
Export YouTube comments in one click
YouTube has no export button for comments. This YouTube comments downloader reads a video's comments and turns them into a spreadsheet you can sort, chart or feed into other tools.
- CSV, Excel or JSON
- CSV opens in Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers. Excel (.xlsx) keeps likes and reply counts as numbers. JSON is ready for scripts and data tools.
- Every useful column
- Comment ID, author, author channel link, text, likes, reply count, published and updated time, and a direct link to each comment.
- Newest, oldest or most liked
- Choose the order before you export, so the most liked or the earliest comments come first in the file.
- Built in your browser
- The file is built on your device and never uploaded. Public comments are cached on our servers for up to an hour so repeat reads load faster.
- Big videos too
- The newest 1,000 comments are free. To read all of a video with tens of thousands of comments, use credits: 1 credit per 200 comments.
- Emoji and every language
- Files are saved as UTF-8, and the CSV is marked so Excel opens Chinese, Arabic, emoji and accents correctly.
What's free, and what each tool reads
The comment finder, downloader and picker share one daily allowance. Here is what each one reads, what you can do for free and what needs credits or a subscription.
| At a glance | Comment Finder | Comment Downloader | Comment Picker |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it reads | Top-level comments of one public video or Short | Top-level comments of one public video or Short | Top-level comments of one public video or Short |
| Replies | Shows each comment's reply count; reply text isn't searched | Exports each comment's reply count, not the reply text | Replies don't count as entries |
| Free every day | The newest 1,000 comments on 3 videos a day, shared by all three tools | The newest 1,000 comments on 3 videos a day, shared by all three tools | The newest 1,000 comments on 3 videos a day, shared by all three tools |
| Free to use | Keyword and username search, sorting by likes or date | CSV with the first 100 rows | One winner per draw, one entry per channel, result image with a TubeKit watermark |
| More comments | 1 credit per 200 comments past the free ones, when signed in | 1 credit per 200 comments past the free ones, when signed in | 1 credit per 200 comments past the free ones, when signed in |
| With a subscription | Nothing extra to unlock | Every row as CSV, Excel or JSON | Up to 20 winners and 5 alternates, image without watermark |
Free videos reset at 00:00 UTC. Public comments are cached on our servers for up to an hour; searches, files and draws stay in your browser.
Frequently asked questions
Paste the video's link above and press Find comments. When the comments are loaded, pick CSV, Excel or JSON and press Download. Big videos load the newest comments first; press Read all comments before you export to get every one.
One row per comment: comment ID, author, author channel link, comment text, likes, reply count, published time, updated time (both in UTC) and a link that opens the comment on YouTube. To turn an author’s channel link into its UC ID, use the YouTube Channel ID Finder.
Yes. Without an account you can open 3 videos a day and export the first 100 rows of each as CSV. Subscribers export every comment loaded, as CSV, Excel or JSON.
Yes. The newest 1,000 comments load for free. To load the rest, sign in and use credits: 1 credit per 200 comments. Exporting every row needs a subscription.
Not yet. The file has every top-level comment with its reply count. YouTube's comment count includes replies, so the file usually has fewer rows than the number YouTube shows.
They shouldn't: the CSV is saved as UTF-8 with a marker that tells Excel so. If an older Excel still shows odd characters, choose the Excel format instead, or import the CSV with Data > From Text and pick UTF-8.
Yes. Use the Comment Finder to search a video's comments by keyword or username, sort them by likes or date, and find the first comment, without downloading anything.
It does the same job without any code: paste a link and download every top-level comment as CSV, Excel or JSON. TubeKit reads comments through YouTube's official API instead of scraping the page, so there is nothing to install and it doesn't depend on YouTube's page layout.
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