Free Comment Search Tool
YouTube Comment Search
Search the comments on any YouTube video or channel by keyword or username. Filter by date, highlight every match, and export the results to CSV. Free, no sign-up.
How to search YouTube comments
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Paste a YouTube video URL, or a channel URL like youtube.com/@channel to search across its latest videos at once.
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Type a keyword or a "quoted phrase" to find every comment mentioning it — matches are highlighted so you can scan results fast.
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Narrow further by username, date range, or minimum likes, and sort by newest, oldest, most liked, or best match.
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Export the matching comments to CSV to share them, archive them, or work through them offline.
Finding your own YouTube comment history
This tool searches the comments on a video or channel. To find comments you posted anywhere on YouTube, use your own comment history instead — YouTube keeps a full record of it:
- Open My Activity → YouTube comments while signed in. Every comment you've left is listed newest-first, and the search box at the top filters it by keyword.
- On mobile, tap your profile picture in the YouTube app, then Your data in YouTube → YouTube comments.
- For a permanent copy, request a YouTube export from Google Takeout — the archive includes a CSV of all your comments.
YouTube offers no public search across other people's comments site-wide, which is why every comment finder — including this one — works per video or per channel.
YouTube Comment Search — FAQ
How do I search comments on a YouTube video?+
Paste the video URL above and press Load comments. Then type any keyword or a "quoted phrase" in the search box — every matching comment appears instantly with the match highlighted. You can also filter by username, date range and minimum likes.
Can I search YouTube comments by username?+
Yes. Load a video or channel, then type the username (with or without the @) into the Username field to see only that person's comments. Combine it with a keyword to find a specific comment someone left.
Is there a way to see my own YouTube comment history?+
Yes, but not through this tool — YouTube keeps your own history at myactivity.google.com under YouTube comments, where you can search it by keyword. Google Takeout will export the full list as a CSV. This tool searches comments on a video or channel rather than your personal history.
Can I search comments across a whole channel?+
Yes. Paste a channel URL such as youtube.com/@channelname and choose how many recent videos to scan (3, 5 or 10). The tool loads up to 300 comments per video and searches them all at once, showing which video each match came from.
How many comments can it search?+
Up to 2,000 comments for a single video, newest first, and up to 300 comments per video in channel mode. Replies are included by default and can be toggled off. For a video with more comments than that, the analyzer reads up to 5,000 and summarises every theme instead of making you search one keyword at a time.
Is the YouTube comment search free?+
Yes — completely free with no sign-up, no watermark and no export limit. It uses the official YouTube Data API and only reads public comments.
Can I export the comments I find?+
Yes. Press Export CSV to download every comment matching your current search, including author, comment text, likes, date posted, video title and a direct link to each comment on YouTube.
Why can't I find an old comment I know exists?+
The tool loads the newest 2,000 comments on a video, so older comments on very popular videos fall outside that window. Comments can also be deleted by their author, removed by the channel owner, or held for review — in which case YouTube's API doesn't return them at all.
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