Comment Finder for YouTube

Search a video's comments without an API key. Matches stay in YouTube's own comment boxes and are highlighted.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • No API key and no account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to paste in. • No permissions at all. Look at the install prompt: it asks for nothing. • Nothing is collected and nothing is sent anywhere. There is no server. • Your page never scrolls or jumps while it searches. LEAVING WORDS OUT Put a minus in front of a word to hide the comments that contain it: "drum -solo". It works on a phrase too: -"drum solo". SHORTS It works on Shorts as well as ordinary videos. Open the comments on a Short and the search box is there, in the same place. REPLIES (PHONE) On the phone there is a "replies" switch next to the search box. Turn it on and the search also opens and reads the replies under each comment, which is where a lot of conversation hides. It is off by default because it is slower: YouTube sends ten replies at a time. Press Stop whenever you like. The desktop site does not have this switch yet. HOW IT WORKS YouTube only holds a few comments in the page at a time and fetches more as you scroll. This asks YouTube for the rest in the background, so a search covers far more than what is on screen. A busy video will load a couple of thousand comments in about a minute, and the count in the bar tells you how far it has got. You can press Stop at any time. ABOUT THE COUNT YouTube's own "1,234 comments" headline counts replies as well as top-level comments, so it is normally bigger than the number searched. The bar says so plainly, for example: "5 of 55 comments · YouTube lists 90, which counts replies". On a very busy video YouTube stops sending after roughly one to three thousand comments, whatever anyone does; the bar says that too, instead of pretending it found everything. REQUIREMENTS Chrome 111 or newer, or another browser built on Chromium: Edge, Brave, Opera or Vivaldi. Works on the desktop site and on the phone site (m.youtube.com). Please note: Chrome for Android and Chrome for iPhone do not run extensions of any kind, so there is nowhere to install this on those. On a phone it needs a browser that can run Chrome extensions. Vivaldi for Android is one that does, and it has been tested there.