The most powerful and intuitive YouTube chat filter extension.
Capture messages from YouTube chat based on filter rules.
YtcFilter works alongside the standard YouTube chat and is compatible with third-party addons and websites such as Holodex. Many types of filters are supported, including:
- Author roles (Moderator, Member, Channel Owner, Verified, etc.)
- TL tags ([EN], [JP], etc.)
- Message types (superchats, membership messages, etc.)
- Text filters (contains, starts with, ends with, equals, regex, etc.)
Filtered chat messages are archived into persistent storage. Message logs can be easily imported/exported as text files, json files, or screenshots.
Latest reviews
- (2022-08-03) Mike G: I thought this extension would allow me to filter chats. For example in You Tube or Twitch it should recognize a keyword then filter that particular comment. It cannot do this. I want to use it to prevent spammers by filtering their comments based on certain strings used such as "XYZ".
- (2021-10-12) Le Developpeur Migraineux: A life saver! Thank you very much for the hard work. Make the live chat experience much better.
- (2021-08-25) Patrick Burke: I only use a couple of the presets it comes with, but does everything I want it to. Seems powerful if you want to dig in to customize it. Good!
- (2021-07-01) Lijo: Super useful. Thanks <3
- (2021-05-16) Rizal Boon (DualSoulArtz): Nice extension that allows me to filter english only chat and only tagged chat separately with the original chat going on too fast.
- (2021-03-26) Alisaie Maniac: This extension is exactly what I needed to properly enjoy Vtuber or other YT streams. Amazing work friend.
- (2021-03-09) Jingus Florpus: Works well, but i'm having an issue where i can't set a Channel Default Preset for Amelia Watson's channel specifically. Dunno why but for her channel the button's just greyed out for me
- (2021-02-18) GV: I find this really useful. In JP streams, I filter for translations and in EN streams, I filter out the JP comments and use Chrome to auto translate them. All previous issues I have had seem to be fixed with later versions.
- (2021-01-31) James VanRysseghem: edit: dev is great, quickly pushes out fixes for random things that youtube feels like breaking haha great stuff, although youtube must've busted something recently, because ytcfilter doesn't automatically load anymore like it used to. "Click here if it doesn't load properly" is the only way to get it to load, which is a bit annoying, but not really a major issue.
- (2021-01-29) Sila: I relly love this, but please do something about the error when the filter fail to load since the recent update.
- (2021-01-28) Christofer Schoerner: It was great until they ruined it.
- (2021-01-23) Knovour Zheng: loading fail everytime after update, filter did not working, always empty
- (2021-01-21) Internet Explorer: Can you please stop updating the extension?? Every single time this extension updates everything goes down hill... now you can't edit filters from the chat box, you need to go to pop out mode, which is the most unstable thing I've ever seen, even more unstable than my ex. every single time you add a filter it has 50% chance to crash, and guess what, every time it crashes it stops working indefinitely, and restarting the browser won't help, hell not even restarting the PC would help either, you need to remove the entire extension, reinstall it again and repeat the entire process from the beginning. for the love of god, stop it, it was functional. This is the fifth time btw I've removed it and reinstall again... Thanks for the update
- (2021-01-20) Flamehaze: Excellent extension. Issue going on with it for me in particular. When I use ytcFilter I am getting the following message " Chat disconnected. Please wait while we try to reconnect you. Unable to connect to chat. Please try again later. " I also use LiveTL, LiveJimaku and Chat Selector for YouTube Live. I isolated the issue to LiveTL and ytcFilter being incompatible when using one or the other. Not sure what is causing the interference but it just started happening today as of 1/20/2020 8:am or so EST. Thank you for the extension.
- (2021-01-05) Macky100: I love it, one problem is that it keeps forgetting my profiles so I have to import my settings every time I join a stream. Worked perfectly well previously before the update.
- (2021-01-04) Daro: Really nice but it's resetting all my presets like three or four times a day
- (2021-01-03) David Gagnon: edit: fixed, good You need access to my browsing history now?!?! WHAT????
- (2020-12-31) すずの: Great extensions, thank you very much !
- (2020-12-28) ジェイビー・ジェリコ: After the new update 2.0.2 my profiles and filters wont save. After closing youtube and going to another stream all my save filters and profiles are gone.
- (2020-12-27) Jared Perry: Works great, especially now that the permissions issue has been fixed. Still, I think the styling could be made to stand out less. Also, the settings and filters should be combined into one drawer.
- (2020-12-27) ̇: This addon is open-source, so you can check out by yourself. From the changelog(https://github.com/RomainLK/ytc-filter/blob/master/changelog.md): "I don't know what happened but I have not requested history permission, only tabs was added, and even this will be removed in this version." So the author removed it. Everyone please upgrade to 2.0.2.
- (2020-12-26) Jo: Edit: Looking at GitHub, it looks like this was an accident and will be fixed in the next release, I'm changing my review to 3 stars and will wait for the next release. Previous review: App suddenly requires access to browser history without explanation or even an apparent version update, removing.
- (2020-12-26) Jokuc :3: It's good, but not perfect. I wish the icon to open the filter panel was not placed in the same bounding div as the chat on its own line, as it takes up a little bit of the top space for the normal chat even when the filter is not being used. It would be great if it could be located in-line so that it doesn't take up any extra space from the chat if you do not have it open. Also I don't know if this is possible, but it would be great if the height of the overall chat can be adjusted. I'd rather not shrink the normal chat just cause I increase the height of the filter chat. Like, change the "--ytd-watch-chat-max-height:" property. Lastly, what's with the recent update and requirement to grand permission to browsing history? I do not want to use it until this has been explained.
- (2020-12-26) Wilhelm Svenselius: This extension has been very helpful for me, but why does the latest update require access to my browsing history? That's not something I'm going to allow without an explanation.
- (2020-12-26) Will Sanchez: Latest update now "requires" access to your browser history. Funny how it worked just fine without needing it before but now it can't be used at all without giving it this permission.
- (2020-12-19) Hanif H: Very good filter. Some suggestion i will say maybe to add download/save filtered words to notepad format and also i noticed, past version of this filter able to save filtered word from during livestream to archive, but now any filtered word from livestream will disappear after archive is up, really hope this feature is back...
- (2020-12-17) Eugo: Adding an option to not show comments with filtered phrase would be usefull
- (2020-12-08) Daniel J: Sometimes it does not catch the translation from the chat. You have to add the same filter more than once and only then it works.
- (2020-11-28) ArgusRho・AR_E: I like how the screenshot is eldritch goddess
- (2020-11-16) Kobold Party: I did a double-take when the changelog opened up-on one of Ina's archives.
- (2020-11-11) gg no re: Hey great extension. Is there a way to filter chatters with a checkmark to their name?
- (2020-11-09) Enzo Yasuo: Worked just as expected! Thanks
- (2020-11-06) Adib Hadee: Good but there's still some spam cant be filtered especially if there's high spammer in the chat, hope you can fix this
- (2020-10-21) Pepijn van den Broek: It works great until people decide to use commonly used filters to spam which at this moment is happening a lot more often because of what happened with coco and haachama. Some kind of whitelist or blacklist would be really appreciated.
- (2020-10-16) Yan Thibeault-Lemieux: Does work greatly to have a separate chat for when the owner/moderator are talking, or for translations. Question since i'm bad with regex; How do I include messinge with [EN] in it ?
- (2020-10-10) Danny Nguyen: The new features with "is mod" and "is owner" were super useful. I basically don't have to fiddle adding more filters on-the-fly anymore with random senpai dropping into the HololiveEN girl's streams.
- (2020-10-03) JDENNE: very nice
- (2020-09-28) HoloFan Lee: I'm having issues with the latest update (1.6.0) being that it's not allowing me to save filters to any profile. After I've input filters and try to save them to a specific profile it simply doesn't respond regardless of how many times I hit save. I'd like some help with this cause it's honestly tiring having to import filters for every single stream.
- (2020-09-15) Bruh Moment: nice
- (2020-09-14) Tony Laf: very good works as intended
- (2020-09-13) Gaston Jacubowicz: the extension for the truly cultured, changes everything for the best. thank for making it!
- (2020-08-30) Sapienta Prime: Great extension, regex functionality makes this infinitely useful for making a second chat feed that serves nearly any purpose.
- (2020-08-28) Jason Pedraza: Just tested it on one of Pekora's streams! it works great as long as someone is translating in chat.
- (2020-08-28) Milky Oni: Great tool for following live translations! I highly recommend it!
- (2020-08-28) Mikey Andersen: Massive game changer for both viewers, and live translators. Always wanted something like this, and here it is. Thank you so much for this!
- (2020-08-28) Rich Yates: Really nice, would be great if you could set global filters that get applied to every chat.