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Search comments, replies, chat replay, video transcript for the current video on YouTube by contents, authors, time.
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The YCS (YouTube Comment Search) is a chrome extension.
Search comments, replies, chat replay, video transcript for the current video on YouTube by contents, authors, time.
Features:
✅ Quick search by timestamp, author, content
✅ Export comments, replies, chat replay, video transcript
✅ Flexible (fuzzy) search
✅ Multilingual search
✅ Search by Emoji
✅ Works in incognito mode
✅ Unlimited load comments
✅ Time stamps - show comments, replies with time stamps
✅ Author - show comments, replies and chat comments from the author
✅ Likes - show comments, replies by number of likes (sort largest to smallest)
✅ Replied - show comments by number of replies (sort largest to smallest)
✅ Members - show comments, replies and chat comments from channel members
✅ Donated - show chat comments from users who have donated
✅ Show random comment
✅ Small size, low use CPU and memory
Instructions:
1. Open video on YouTube
2. Find the YCS extension under the current video and click the button "Load all" or choose to load the categories
3. Write the search query, press Enter or click the button Search
FAQ
1) How to like, reply to a comment?
In the search results, click on the date (like, "2 months ago") of the comment, reply and will open a new window with an active comment or reply under the video, where you can do any action.
2) How do I find all timestamped comments and replies on a video?
Click on the "Time stamps" button under the search bar.
3) How can I find addressed to user's comments, replies?
Write " @ " in the input field.
4) How can I view the contents of the video transcript at a specific minute?
You can write a search query for Trp. Video, in the " mm:ss " format. For example:
" : " - all the text of the video transcript.
" 15: " - all the text in the 15th minute.
And etc.
5) How can I view the comment for a found reply?
Click on the " ▼ " button.
6) How can I see the all replies to the found comment?
In the header of the found comment, you can find the reply icon and the count, to see the replies click on the " + " button.
7) How to use search in YouTube shorts?
Open a YouTube video short. Click badge YCS (right of the address bar) and click on the button Open YT short.
You can use the search engine (YCS), while loading comments, chat, transcript video.
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-23) RJ: The Transcript search do not work, when you open to see the transcript, it has no data, and i have tried this on many videos. so, it's safe to say, this feature is not working right now. please fix this. thanks.
- (2025-07-02) Toro: Very very useful I had to look for a specific post like a needle in a haystack A simple load all and save then search and got it
- (2025-06-19) Plink: would be 5 stars but transcript search isn't working right now! Please fix: This page contains the following errors:error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
- (2025-06-06) Mark Lang: Transcript is not working all of a sudden. Generates this when I open the .txt transcript file: This page contains the following errors:error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. #####
- (2025-05-13) Feed Gaming: There's a bit of the bug where the comments sometimes stop loading even if I didn't stop it.
- (2025-05-09) Wade: This extension has the very needed feature but it doesn't perform well. It doesn't show all the comments, actually missing quite a few. Update: it seems to only load less than 50% of the comments, strange. Anybody knows why?
- (2025-05-04) plautus egal: currently not working with adblock
- (2025-04-29) hollaartyourboy: currently working as usual (after periods of sporadic unreliability)! TIP: if it's not working for you, you may need to disable your Youtube Ad blocker. I use many ad blockers and the one called "Adblock for Youtube™" is incompatible with this extension. After turning that one off this works perfectly!
- (2025-04-29) Rob Bogdan: Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you
- (2025-04-09) Romeo P.: this used to work on bing and chrome, plsss fix
- (2025-03-18) Naveen Rawat: It works fine for YouTube videos comments but what about searching comments in YouTube shorts? Why doesn't it work for them. The author should make it compatible with YouTube shorts comments section search as well. Keep up the good work.
- (2025-03-17) BH: my first extension staring for this S-TIER chrome extension :D
- (2025-03-06) Jas Trades: WORKS AGAIN, TRUST ME Loved this extension I use it so much for literally everything and it was just amazing, but it didnt work for a couple months because of a youtube update but im glad its working again, definitely reinstall or just install for the first time, this is a must for youtube
- (2025-03-01) Steve Richards: powerful useful great ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
- (2025-02-09) Daniel Foster: Works as expected, just wish it was initially hidden, likely of me using it is 4/10, so it would better if the button to show the filter block to be inside "Sort by" drop down menu as an item where apon clicking it shows the filter block or at least provide it as option in the settings.
- (2025-02-04) Cameron: As of right now it works again. : )
- (2025-01-31) João Velez: It stopped working for some time, now it works perfectly again. This rating needs to be updated
- (2025-01-12) erland: Finally works!
- (2025-01-09) Pye McWoozle: Such a useful extension. Thank you
- (2025-01-02) Winchester Chua: I can't believe it's finally fixed!
- (2024-12-27) Peter Brewster: I've been wanting to do this for years, and you made that come true! thx
- (2024-12-26) Larry Liu: Great extension. Love it. works on Brave browser.
- (2024-12-16) ya local sagittarius: works as intended, not much to add it just works
- (2024-11-26) Niksa: To make it work (temporarily) disable Adblock for YT
- (2024-11-17) M!key_: thank you for the fix! love this extension
- (2024-11-14) Шлёма Могилёвский: 2) Find the YCS extension under the current video and click the button "Load all" or choose to load the categories there is NO YCS extension under the current video so I cant click the button "Load all" or choose to load the categories. this extension just doesnt work
- (2024-11-10) dobandvla: Started working again!
- (2024-10-31) Bob Johnson: It works again!
- (2024-10-24) Andario Andrada: Potentially GREAT extension, but with SEVERE limitations. Unlike other extensions out there, this one has every sorting feature you might ever want, and it integrates nicely where Youtube comments are supposed to be, not in a separate menu, thus allowing you to use other big extensions such as Youtube Enhancer and the like, in a reasonably natural way. HOWEVER, I use this mostly to sort by Top comments, and while it certainly does that, there seems to be no way whatsoever to like, dislike, or reply to a certain comment, unless you click "Time stamps" (according to the tutorial), and then, the previous filtering option is COMPLETELY GONE, so I´m supposed to search for the comment I want to like, dislike or reply to in a sea of comments, which basically defeats the main purpose of why I installed this extension, to begin with, which was to filter so I could better INTERACT with other comments. There are some other minor issues (like the fact you cannot seem to set a default sorting option, so every time I have to click Sort by Likes), but the aforementioned issue is the true deal-braker. So if you manage to fix that, Mr. Developer, a truly useful extension, worth collaborating to, no doubt. Best!
- (2024-10-21) Andre Agboti: thank god its back!
- (2024-10-18) Saulius Vitkauskas: thanks for fixing it reverted to 5 stars
- (2024-10-17) Nathaniel Linville: Great extension with all options available: searching, sorting, filtering, showing all necessary info like likes, replies to comments, etc.
- (2024-10-09) Ida Einjaw: best youtube comment search extension for chrome.
- (2024-10-05) g ninja: Since February 16, it's been broken but it's finally fixed😭 They didn't even announce it or anything they just subtly fixed it. BUT WE'RE BACK BABY!!!!🥳🎉🎊🔥
- (2024-10-05) zizi kim: it worked again, hooray!
- (2024-10-04) Pascal Rigo: This is an awesome extension I was using almost daily. Currently broken for me too, but hoping that it will be fixed and work again soon. Edit 10/2024 : still KO since at least 04/2024 :/
- (2024-10-04) My Web Duties: Its a stupid extension, I thought its for searching your Comment History, but its only for searching comments in a particular video.
- (2024-10-02) Raw: This extension has not been updated for a long time, so it seems that someone else has taken over https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ycs-youtube-comment-searc/mfobjniokjbcldieppimekoibpocahed
- (2024-09-23) Melissa Goodnight: used to be wonderful - now it's broken
- (2024-09-17) GUSHI你真的在聽嗎 Individual: gone
- (2024-09-16) Prashant Negi: not working anymore
- (2024-09-13) Ludovic Deraed: Does not work on Brave browser. Otherwise, pretty good (on Chrome).
- (2024-09-11) Batur Kaçamak: Since this extension is not working anymore, I have created mine with more features. You can download it from here https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-comment-navigator/oehnfehgimbnfnibacgkgichanehmbje YouTube Comment Navigator 95
- (2024-09-08) Scott H.: Contrary to some other reviews, this IS still being updated. You need to uninstall this version and install the new version, which you can find by searching the store for "YouTube Comment Search (Continued)"
- (2024-09-08) 砸瓦鲁多: It's very useful, but it has failed recently. Maybe the author can fix it?
- (2024-09-07) MSZ: RIP. Was a brilliant extension but now no longer updated by the creator.
- (2024-09-07) Ayss: Last update was 10 October 2022 and it is safe to say it is abandoned now and no longer works.
- (2024-09-05) Gary Rocha: does not work
- (2024-08-27) Kevin Foendoe: Currently does not show up in comment section. It used to work, can you guys try adding a youtube blocker extension and check if that messes with your code to allow it to show in the comments?
- (2024-08-25) Ivan Pashev: enabled, pinned, followed the instructions, restarted, but doesnt work