YCS - YouTube Comment Search (Continued)
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Search comments, replies, chat replay, video transcript for the current video on YouTube by contents, authors, time.
❗️ This extension is a continuation of the original YouTube Comment Search (YCS) extension ❗️
Original YCS extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ycs-youtube-comment-searc/pmfhcilikeembgbiadjiojgfgcfbcoaa
❗️ What's new / fixed in this version ❗️
▸ Fixed comment and video transcript loading issues that stopped working around late March 2024.
Related issue: https://github.com/sonigy/YCS/issues/56
▸ Fixed reply count sorting
▸ Prevented potential XSS vulnerabilities
▸ Made filter buttons work properly with text search results
▸ Improved cache-loading performance
▸ Fixed video transcript loading (May 2025)
▸ Fixed chat replay loading (October 2025)
For more detailed change log, visit: https://github.com/pc035860/YCS-cont/releases
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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
- Hasan Akdoğan
- The original extension stopped working so I migrated to this fork and it works as intended.
- Julie W.
- I love the idea of this, but we should be able to like and reply to the comments we search.
- Chantelle
- stopped working for me
- Dominik Woźniak
- It's back to the normal funcionality - if it doesnt update automatically for you - remove from the Browser and add it again, 1.3.7 works:) Thanks!
- Bob's Wrigles
- Stopped working today 7 Oct 25, thought it might have been conflict with Ad blocker but no joy when they're turned off, hope it gets fixed soon as it's a great extn.
- Rich Daddy
- STOPPED WORKING
- EveryCafe720
- Stopped working today, hope it'll get fixed. Such a great and helpful tool.
- OldManYellsAtClouds
- It stopped working today. it no longer shows up under the video. I still gave if 5 stars because im sure its because of something YouTube did not you.
- Nome próprio Apelido
- broken by amerimutts
- Matt
- Just as good as the original, no other plugin comes close to this one in terms of usefulness for sorting Youtube comments
- Maximilian Domberger
- I always hated the ugly interface, but just suddenly figured out there is an option to hide it by default. I think hiding it should definitely be the default option. Anyway, functionality-wise this addon is great, it really searches ALL the comments even without scrolling down.
- Monsif Mrini
- It works perfectly
- David Lopez
- It doesn't work. August 2025
- TrikeTomGoogle
- Expansion does not work. Search input does not appear under the videos.
- K. Péter
- Works well, but comments should 'work' like in the original comment section, so comments should be: - likeable - replyable - reportable I know, clicking on comments' date will navigate me there, but that will open another tab where the comment is on the top...
- Riq W.
- Amazing! After it got discontinued I started to use YCF but after I wanted to install YCS one more time I encountered a separate but updated version of the extension and I can't be more grateful for this, thx! UPDATE 1: Later this afternoon I was watching some videos when I noticed that the comment search tab was missing, when I tried to fix it by reinstalling it it was still missing. What's going on guys? Please fix this issue UPDATE 2: Whenever I first enter YouTube after booting my computer I have to reload the first YT video I watch so the comment searcher's UI looks right
- RubySapior
- Thank you for bringing back this projects. There are just no alternatives to this work.
- Patryk Jaworski
- Not working for me, unfortunately
- Cayled 174
- Thanks for reviving this project. The original extension stopped working. It's such a gamechanger for quoting videos transcripts and looking for info in the comments !
- Dr.Ne0Gen3tic (Forensic Buro of Quantum)
- Thank you very much for the further development of this excellent extension! Because, at the moment, there is absolutely no alternative! This expansion is an absolute ‘piece of gold’ and I am very happy that it is being developed further!
- Thrakus
- Thank you so much! This is so great , Youtube is useless with out it.
- Raw
- I've been looking for a replacement extension ever since the original YCS stopped working Thank you for this work
- Mohammad Mujtaba Syed
- Works perfectly. Would love it if the timestamps were sorted based on the mentioned time instead of the time the comment was posted.
- João Vitor
- Perfeita! / This is just perfect!
- Mike
- Thanks dev for making this! Works fine for me on Brave browser. If you're having trouble then it may be conflicting with another extension. I've had that happen to me for various extensions through the years.
- Adrian Hung
- Will consider to extend it to channel community comments? Thanks
- chris pratt
- it works again !! love this extension
- Genso
- Just died... August 9 update: works again! Hopefully for a while
- Ahmed Mohamedeen
- Aug 8. Extension works again. Can we act like humans and stop review-bombing such extension that is supposed to break very often given how frequently Youtube changes thing up? The extension has an official github that is being monitored and is used for issue tracking. At least if you do that come back and update your review.
- Neillan
- Hope YouTube's API isn't targeting this extension, was working amazingly well just a couple days ago.
- Snake
- Stopped working
- NotAWeebo
- I found out it only works if you are not logged in with an account on youtube.
- The_Ratchz
- What happened? it was working fine a few days ago? please fix it, it's a very good extension and the original is also down.
- Skip Heath
- it looks like it has stopped working in Chrome
- V
- Thank you for the update!
- Josh “Voyager” Borg
- Excellent work!
- Karbon Kevlar
- Doesn't Work on Brave. Tried with the shield off, tried with all extensions deactivated, even tried with my antivirus off. It simply doesn't work. It works on firefox though... but I use Brave.
- Samuel Butler
- So glad this is back!
- erez
- is it possible to search through the comments of the entire channel instead of going per video?
- Lucky Girl
- thankyou alot. its really hard to not have youtube with the original ycs. at last i found this project, somehow, after looking for it all this time. google really doesnt let me find this even though i type in alot of similar keywords to this "youtube comment search stopped working" on the search engine. oh well finally i found the github page that i was looking for.
- Cthulhu Sleeps
- I love it! Thanks for bringing it back! <3
- _민
- can I delete the existing Original YCS ?
- Amantin Mehilli
- I Love this community. I love the tool. The developer is a great human being.
- gibraltaz0r
- It works!
- Phil Sowers
- YCS is dead, long live YCS Continued!
- Percy Whitehead
- This should be standard with YouTube. Thanks for doing this, community appreciates it
- Baba
- Legend, thank you, gonna stay subscribed to the old version in case sonigy comes back and fixes the original but it'll stay disabled on Chrome as long as this version is up. Thank you again.
- Merrit Parion
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