YouTube Comment
Finder
Search any public video's comments by phrase, author, likes or timestamp — and jump straight to the comment on YouTube. It also prints how many comments it actually searched, because on a big video no tool searches all of them.
- ● Search by phrase, author or likes
- ● Filters for questions and timestamps
- ● Deep links to each comment
- ● States its own sample size
The API's maximum page size, at one quota unit each.
8% of a whole day's quota, for one visitor, on one video.
300 by default, up to 1,000 — and the number is printed next to the video's total.
Any watch URL, youtu.be link, Shorts link or bare ID. The newest 300 comments load first, and you can pull in more from there.
The sample size sits next to the video's total on every result. A tool that hides this lets you conclude a phrase was never said when it just was not fetched.
Every result links to the comment on YouTube with the page scrolled to it, using YouTube's own deep-link parameter.
Questions only, has replies, has a timestamp, minimum likes — the four ways people actually narrow a comment section.
Three requests to start, three more on demand, all shared through the same cache as every other tool here.
How to
How to find a comment on a YouTube video
Watch URL, youtu.be link, Shorts link or the bare 11-character ID. The newest 300 comments load immediately.
Any phrase from the comment. Every word you type must appear, so start with one or two and add more only to narrow it.
By author if you know who wrote it, by likes if it was a popular one, or by timestamp if it pointed at a moment in the video.
Each result links to the comment itself, so you land on the video with that comment in view — useful for replying or citing it.
Read this before trusting a result
Nobody searches every comment on a big video
Not this tool, and not the ones that do not mention it.
YouTube's API hands back 100 comments per request, and each request costs a unit of a daily quota. A video with 80,000 comments is 800 requests to read once — eight per cent of an entire day's budget spent on one person looking for one comment.
So every comment search you have ever used worked on a sample. The difference is whether it tells you. This one prints the number it searched next to the video's own total on every result, because a search that finds nothing is only meaningful if you know how much it looked at.
The sample is the newest comments rather than the "top" ones, deliberately. Top ordering is YouTube's own ranking and it is opaque; a defined window of recent comments is something you can reason about.
One more gap worth naming: the API returns top-level comments, and replies inside a thread are not searched separately here. If the phrase you want was a reply, it may exist and still not appear.
Limits
What this finder cannot do
That lives in your Google account, at myactivity.google.com. It is never public, so nothing built on the public API can reach it.
Author filtering works within one video. A person's comments across YouTube are not a public collection, and tools claiming otherwise are scraping or guessing.
Only top-level comments are fetched. A phrase written as a reply inside a thread can exist and still not show up here.
Comments deleted, held for review, or filtered as spam never reach the API. Their absence here says nothing about whether they existed.
The timestamp filter matches 1:23 and 12:34 but also 9:16, which is a real timestamp and a Shorts ratio at once. 16:9 is correctly excluded; 9:16 cannot be.
The creator can disable them entirely. The tool reports that state rather than showing an empty result you might misread.
One tool, every intent
However you searched for it, this is the page
People arrive wanting a comment finder, a way to search YouTube comments, or to get back to one comment they half remember. One workflow: paste, search, open.
Finding the comment you scrolled past
The common case, and the one YouTube's own interface handles worst. Two remembered words are usually enough, and the result links back to the exact comment.
Reading your own audience properly
Filter to questions only and you have a list of what your viewers did not understand — which is a content plan. Filter to timestamps and you get the moments people cared enough to cite.
Researching a competitor's video
The comments say what the video failed to answer. Pair it with Video Statistics to see whether the video performed, and with the transcript to see what it actually said.
Picking a comment for a giveaway
Load the sample, filter to what qualifies, and choose. Note the sample caveat applies here more than anywhere — on a big entry thread the tool has not seen everyone, so it is not a fair draw.
Also known as
- yt comment finder
- youtube comment finder
- youtube comment search
- search youtube comments
- yt comment viewer
- find a comment on youtube
- youtube comment filter
- find youtube comments by user
- how to find my youtube comments
- search comments on a youtube video
- youtube comment lookup
- youtube comments disabled
Related YouTube tools
Keep the workflow going
See whether the video performed, read what it actually said, or pull the description the comments are reacting to.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I find a specific comment on a YouTube video?+
Paste the video URL, then type any phrase you remember. This searches the comment text itself, so a half-remembered word is usually enough, and each result links straight to that comment on YouTube with the video scrolled to it.
Can I search every comment on a video?+
Not on a big one, and no tool can do it cheaply. The API returns 100 comments per request, so a video with 80,000 comments would take 800 requests to read once. This tool searches a sample — 300 by default, up to 1,000 — and prints exactly how many it searched next to the video's total, so you always know what the result covers.
Can I find all comments made by one person?+
Within a video, yes — filter by author name. Across all of YouTube, no: a person's comment history is private to their account, and any tool claiming to list someone's comments site-wide is either scraping or inventing.
Can I find my own old comments?+
Not through this. Your comment history lives in your Google account — myactivity.google.com has it under YouTube. That data is never public, so nothing built on the public API can reach it.
Why does the tool say comments are disabled?+
Because the creator turned them off, which the API reports explicitly. It is not an error and there is no way around it — no comments exist to search.
Why are some comments missing from the results?+
Three reasons: the sample only covers the newest N comments, replies inside a thread are not searched separately, and comments held for review or removed by the creator never appear in the API at all.