YouTube Comments
Viewer
Read a video's whole comment section on one page — searchable, sortable, replies inline — with the questions, timestamps and repeated requests pulled out separately.
Paste a link to read its comments
Anything with an 11-character video ID works. Comments must be enabled on the video and the video must be public.
Structure
A comment section is two levels deep, and that is all
Top-level comments carry the sort order and the like counts. Replies hang off them, collapsed by default, and never nest further — which is why the interesting conversation is so easy to miss.
Thread anatomy
On the video page you have to click into each thread. Here every reply is one keystroke away from being read in sequence.
The pinned comment
Sits above everything regardless of sort, and is the only slot in a comment section the creator fully controls. Most channels waste it.
The creator heart
A cheap, visible signal that costs nothing and reliably pulls the hearted commenter back to the next upload.
Replies are hidden work
Half the questions on a busy video live in collapsed reply chains, where nobody — including the creator — ever reads them.
Worth knowing
A reply to a reply is still a level-two reply. There is no third level, so a long argument becomes one flat, unreadable column.
Sort order
Top comments and newest comments are two different videos
The default sort buries anything posted after the first day. If you only ever read Top comments, you are reading the reaction to your launch and nothing since.
Same section, two orders
Nothing posted this week can out-like a comment that has been collecting votes since launch day. Both sorts are correct; only one is current.
Which to read when
Two reads, two jobs
- Top
- What the video is known for. Read it before making a sequel or a follow-up.
- Newest
- Who is arriving now, and from where. Read it weekly on anything evergreen.
- Search
- The only way to answer a specific question — "did anyone mention the belt size?" — without reading all of it.
Tip
A year-old tutorial still collecting Newest comments is a video worth remaking. The comments tell you before the analytics do.
What to mine for
Four things in a comment section are worth your time
Most comments are applause, and applause is fine. The rest divides into four buckets, each of which turns into work you can actually do.
Triage
The top three rows are a content calendar you did not have to invent. The bottom row is the reason the top three are hard to find.
Questions
The same question asked five times is a gap in the video. Answer it in a pinned comment, then fix it in the next cut.
Timestamps
Viewers bookmark the part that mattered. Those clusters are your chapter list, written by the audience.
Requests
"Do one on X" from the people who already watched you is the cheapest audience research that exists.
Corrections
Uncomfortable and valuable. An unanswered correction with 200 likes is the first thing a new viewer reads.
Support
Frequently asked questions
Does this show every comment?
It loads the top threads YouTube returns for a video, with up to five replies shown inline on each. Anything held for review, marked as spam, or removed by the creator is not public and cannot be read.
Can I reply from here?
No. This is a read-and-search view. Replying, hearting and moderating all require being signed in as the channel, which happens in Studio.
Why does the count differ from the video page?
The number under a video counts top-level comments and replies together, and lags behind moderation. This page reports the threads it actually loaded, so a gap is normal.
Can I read a competitor's comments?
Yes, on any public video. The unanswered questions under someone else's tutorial are the clearest brief you will ever get for your own.
What if comments are disabled?
There is nothing to load, and the page says so. The same applies to videos made for kids, where YouTube disables comments platform-wide regardless of the creator's setting.
Is anything I load saved?
No account is needed and no history is kept. The link is sent to our server to fetch the public comments from YouTube, and the response is cached briefly so a repeat check doesn't query the API again — copy out what you want to keep before you close the tab.
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