Archiving and You

[21st Century Pipkin Man]

What's the best way to collect a user's youtube comments/chat posts?

I'm not sure if there's a way to stalk someone's comments across several videos. However, you can use this to only download all comments per video via yt-dlp, and then search that for a specific user:
yt-dlp --write-comments --no-download URLGOESHERE

Note that this saves all the data on each comment, including likes, pin/fav status, and the account ID and URL of each commenter. Very handy for archival and search, but not something you'd want to scroll and read through. It also includes the video metadata.

 

[Dinah]

Does the yt-dlp script work for unarchived streams?
Would it have to be run right after the end of the stream when the link is still up?

 

[DTrp]

Does the yt-dlp script work for unarchived streams?
Would it have to be run right after the end of the stream when the link is still up?

while the stream is live, run this

GitHub - Kethsar/ytarchive: Garbage Youtube livestream downloader

Garbage Youtube livestream downloader. Contribute to Kethsar/ytarchive development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

(click the "releases" section on the right, download zip, and extract to your working directory)
once it's privated or removed, it can no longer be downloaded

 

[Dinah]

while the stream is live, run this

GitHub - Kethsar/ytarchive: Garbage Youtube livestream downloader

Garbage Youtube livestream downloader. Contribute to Kethsar/ytarchive development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

(click the "releases" section on the right, download zip, and extract to your working directory)
once it's privated or removed, it can no longer be downloaded

Thanks, much appreciated