YtcFilter - YouTube Chat Filter

How to install Open in Chrome Web Store

CRX ID

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Status

Extension status: Featured

Description from extension meta

The most powerful and intuitive YouTube chat filter extension.

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Description from store

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

Dominick Nigra 2025-10-28: 100% EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you for such a great tool!
M 2025-01-22: Doesn't work, not sure why but no amount of tinkering in the settings does anything and there are no error messages.
Alfa Hatdog 2024-09-14: it won't even filter messages for me anymore, my old filter settings don't even catch mod or channel owner messages ://
Nicholas Dolce 2024-05-30: The new version at first wouldn't except my previous filters. Eventually it worked, but the extension refuses to save chats indiscriminately. Now it doesn't work full stop; I can't access the settings or my filters.
Yoko Yuen 2024-05-29: It is a very useful tool when I watch streams on YouTube~ Thank you so much to develop this! May I have a suggestion...Is it possible to catch the Membership gifting by your plug-in? It would help a lot if it can be added!
nyAkoko 2024-05-28: Can I go back to the old version? He can't grab any chat room logs at all, and I don't even know how to configure it to grab basic SC messages.
Paul 2024-05-27: New version 3 has made some unwanted changes. First, It doesn't open up automatically. I have to hit Embed every time to get it open. Second, it's extremely annoying when you hit clear the text that you have to CONFIRM it every time. I hit clear so just do it. Third, get rid of the stupid blue box that appears when you have no messages in the box yet. It's distracting and completely unnecessary. Version 3 is a downgrade overall.
ilya Petrusha 2024-04-19: A useful extension. Started getting random out of memory errors today, they went away as soon as I turned off the ytcfilter. Waiting for the fix.
Mike G 2022-08-03: 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".
Mike G 2022-08-03: 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".
Le Developpeur Migraineux 2021-10-12: A life saver! Thank you very much for the hard work. Make the live chat experience much better.
Le Developpeur Migraineux 2021-10-12: A life saver! Thank you very much for the hard work. Make the live chat experience much better.
Patrick Burke 2021-08-25: 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!
Patrick Burke 2021-08-25: 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!
Lijo 2021-07-01: Super useful. Thanks <3
Lijo 2021-07-01: Super useful. Thanks <3
Rizal Boon (DualSoulArtz) 2021-05-16: Nice extension that allows me to filter english only chat and only tagged chat separately with the original chat going on too fast.
Boon (Boonie) 2021-05-16: Nice extension that allows me to filter english only chat and only tagged chat separately with the original chat going on too fast.
Alisaie Maniac 2021-03-26: This extension is exactly what I needed to properly enjoy Vtuber or other YT streams. Amazing work friend.
Alisaie Maniac 2021-03-26: This extension is exactly what I needed to properly enjoy Vtuber or other YT streams. Amazing work friend.
Jingus Florpus 2021-03-09: 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
Jingus Florpus 2021-03-09: 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
GV 2021-02-18: 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.
GV 2021-02-18: 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.
James VanRysseghem 2021-01-31: 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.
James VanRysseghem 2021-01-31: 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.
Sila 2021-01-29: I relly love this, but please do something about the error when the filter fail to load since the recent update.
Sila 2021-01-29: I relly love this, but please do something about the error when the filter fail to load since the recent update.
Christofer Schoerner 2021-01-28: It was great until they ruined it.
Christofer Schoerner 2021-01-28: It was great until they ruined it.
Knovour Zheng 2021-01-23: loading fail everytime after update, filter did not working, always empty
Knovour Zheng 2021-01-23: loading fail everytime after update, filter did not working, always empty
Internet Explorer 2021-01-21: 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
Internet Explorer 2021-01-21: 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
Flamehaze 2021-01-20: 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.
Flamehaze 2021-01-20: 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.
Macky100 2021-01-05: 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.
Macky100 2021-01-05: 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.
Daro 2021-01-04: Really nice but it's resetting all my presets like three or four times a day
Daro 2021-01-04: Really nice but it's resetting all my presets like three or four times a day
David Gagnon 2021-01-03: edit: fixed, good You need access to my browsing history now?!?! WHAT????
David Gagnon 2021-01-03: edit: fixed, good You need access to my browsing history now?!?! WHAT????
すずの 2020-12-31: Great extensions, thank you very much !
すずの 2020-12-31: Great extensions, thank you very much !
ジェイビー・ジェリコ 2020-12-28: 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.
ジェイビー・ジェリコ 2020-12-28: 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.
Jared Perry 2020-12-27: 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.
Jared Perry 2020-12-27: 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.
̇ 2020-12-27: 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.

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