YCS - YouTube Comment Search
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Search comments, replies, chat replay, video transcript for the current video on YouTube by contents, authors, time.
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
- 勉慈若真理
- Doesn't work and the dev doesn't support it anymore. As an alternative, try looking up "YCS - YouTube Comment Search (Continued)" instead; the dev over there is still active.
- Hasan Akdoğan
- There is a fork of this extension called "YouTube Comment Search (Continued)" that's being maintained by another dev. OG extension dev stopped updating this one so I suggest you use the forked one.
- DoesColder
- well..I guess the author of this add-on doesn't care anymore as it has been broken for weeks. Shame..it used to be very useful. Time to move to Comments Search for YouTube.
- How Mit
- I'd give it 5 stars if the extension would keep working. Sadly no. Hope it gets corrected soon.
- Said Faroq1
- The tab won't load up anymore...
- Blake Gutowski
- Was great while it WORKED. but sadly, i don't even see the search area anymore. wish it could be fixed.
- Karthick R
- Better make it open source so others can fix bugs. Every fix takes so long. If you don't make it open source, I'll reverse engineer your code and open source it. Lol.
- Steffen Uhlenbrock
- Again stopped working a few weeks ago. I wish someone else would develop this extension, as any fix takes ages to roll out..
- Helman Frow
- The UI no longer loads in any of my chromium browsers, including Chrome, Brave and Vivaldi.
- Gladwin Ngobeni
- Working again!!
- theofilos panagiotopoulos
- not working anymore
- Henrique Matos
- The extension is very good, but it stopped working. I hope the developer fix it.
- Annihilating Fox
- Not working atm because of a youtube update, but I love looking up key words in videos just to see what people have to say about a given topic.
- Matheus grijo
- stopped to work for me
- Jon
- Fantastically useful extension. Stopped working on Chrome in October 2025. It's so useful I'm itching for an update. One feature I would like to see is when clicking on links to specific comments that it does not start the video automatically. I don't know if the youtube API allows for that but it would be nice.
- Hasan Akdoğan
- It stopped working on Chrome while Firefox version of this extension still works.
- Auditormadness9
- Doesn't work.
- Tenkster
- I love and use the extension quite often, however it seems that the most recent chrome or youtube update has broken it a little. It'll still load comments if you have the auto load toggled on in the settings, but the UI that used to exist below the video is now longer there so you cant access the comment search funciton anymore. Please update it! I didnt realize how much i actually used it till it was gone :'c
- Caroline
- New Youtube AI update bricked the extension.
- kAju
- Not working as of 9th October '25
- r t
- When it usually worked it was a wonderful extension. Currently it is not working. What a terrible day to be alive. Curse YouTube and Google. Will update this review when it works again.
- Lubuluk
- The extention is now not working. A Update is needed. Pls do a rework on the extention i daily use it on my youtube.
- kkirby999
- this no longer works anymore. i will change my review once this gets fixed.
- Marcel
- Fantastic while it was working but it stopped yesterday; I assume something changed on YT's end since another extension I use also stopped working. Hope the devs can get this going again. Thanks!
- Nome próprio Apelido
- stopped working, amerimutts broke it
- Kari Gilbertson
- Does not sort video comments by descending Date
- Rune Stephenson
- As of 20th September 2025, it working inside Edge (don't scoff I need the MS points!). It certainly searches the comments, haven't tried Transcript yet. If I can find or get an option that allows it to work in either Light or Dark windows, I will amend my score to 5/5.
- Revo L
- It disappeared and no longer shows on videos
- silly
- stopped working i think! but it WAS working very nicely!
- David Lopez
- I rate with 3 stars because in chrome the extension doesn't work, but it does in brave tho.
- Nazeer Ahmed
- excellent tool for extracting youtube comments with reply.. Thank you
- Kraer
- Getting this error no matter what I do when trying to view transcript: "This page contains the following errors:error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty"
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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. #####
- Feed Gaming
- There's a bit of the bug where the comments sometimes stop loading even if I didn't stop it.
- 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?
- plautus egal
- currently not working with adblock
- 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!
- Rob Bogdan
- Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you
- Romeo P.
- this used to work on bing and chrome, plsss fix
- 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.
- BH
- my first extension staring for this S-TIER chrome extension :D
- 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
- Steve Richards
- powerful useful great ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
- 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.
- Cameron
- As of right now it works again. : )
- João Velez
- It stopped working for some time, now it works perfectly again. This rating needs to be updated
- erland
- Finally works!