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https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-comment-suite

Download YouTube comments from numerous videos, playlists, and channels for archiving, general search, and showing activity.
https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-comment-suite

desktop-app javafx osint osint-tool scraper sqlite3 youtube youtube-api-v3 youtube-comment-scraper youtube-comments youtube-comments-downloader youtube-search

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Download YouTube comments from numerous videos, playlists, and channels for archiving, general search, and showing activity.

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YouTube Comment Suite lets you aggregate YouTube comments from numerous videos, playlists, and channels for archiving,
general search, and showing activity. Achieve the functionality of the *Community > Comments* tool that is provided to
YouTube creators and more.

![Examples](https://i.imgur.com/s742FqW.png)

* Want to see how often a keyword/topic comes up?
* Have a question that may have been answered in the thousands of comments and videos?
* Want to know who the most active and popular fans are?
* Want to see a user's comment history over an entire channel or channels?

## Features

* Cross-platform using Java 8 and JavaFX
* Include multiple channels, playlists, and videos in a single group.
* Search for comments by video, type, username, keyword, length, and date.
* Export search results to handier and more consumable CSV or JSON formats.
* Display stats about videos: publishes per week, most popular, most disliked, most commented, and disabled.
* Display stats about comments: posts per week, most active posters, most popular posters.
* Option to save thumbnails and profiles for archival and offline viewing.
* Sign in to multiple YouTube accounts and choose which to reply with.
* View video context when selecting a comment.

## Install

[![GitHub Releases](https://img.shields.io/badge/downloads-releases-brightgreen.svg?maxAge=60&style=flat-square)](https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-comment-suite/releases)

### Windows

Extract the latest release zip file and run `youtube-comment-suite-#.#.#.jar`.

* Be sure that you have Java 8 installed, if not you can get it
[here from Oracle](https://www.java.com/en/download/).
* If you want to use Java 11 or higher, there is a workaround in the wiki here:
[Installation - Java 11+](https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-comment-suite/wiki/Installation---Java-11)

### Linux / Ubuntu

Instructions on how to get this running in Ubuntu 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 can be found in the wiki here:

* [Installation - Ubuntu 16 17 18 19 20](https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-comment-suite/wiki/Installation---Ubuntu-16-17-18-19-20)

### Extracting the zip

When extracting the latest release zip, be sure to include the `lib` folder alongside the jar otherwise it will not run.

Simply extracting all zip contents to a folder will do this.

## Getting Started

Want to know more about how to use this
program? [Check out the Wiki!](https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-comment-suite/wiki/Overview-of-the-interface)

## Building

Refer to [BUILD.md](https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-comment-suite/blob/master/BUILD.md)
for instructions on how to build and run from source.

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome, refer
to [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-comment-suite/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
for more detail.