Sift: YouTube Comment Search, Finder & Exporter

Search, filter and export every comment and reply on a YouTube video. Download YouTube comments to CSV for Excel, JSON or text.

Search every comment on a YouTube video, not just the few YouTube shows you, and export them to CSV, Excel or JSON. Sift is a YouTube comment finder and exporter in one. It loads all the comments and replies of a video into a panel above the comments, then lets you: • Search them instantly by keyword: every word must match, or switch to a regular expression • Find comments by user: filter by author, minimum likes, comments or replies only • Show only comments with timestamps, links or questions, or comments by the creator, hearted or pinned • Sort by most liked or most replied • Click a timestamp inside a comment to jump the video there • Open any comment in its thread on YouTube • Download what you found: CSV (opens in Excel and Google Sheets), JSON or plain text Free: search, filters and export of up to 500 comments at a time. Sift Pro: export every match, as many as the video has. Pay once through ExtensionPay (Stripe), no subscription. Built for creators reading their audience, researchers and marketers who need a YouTube comment downloader for analysis, and anyone looking for that one comment they saw last week. No scraper to set up and no API key: Sift extracts the comments right in your browser and talks only to YouTube. It has no servers, no analytics and no account; it reads nothing on any other site. Sift is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.