Youtube-dl Download !!exclusive!! Comments -

You can control the sorting and volume of comments retrieved using specific flags:

If you only need the text data and want to save bandwidth, use the --skip-download flag: yt-dlp --get-comments --skip-download --write-info-json https://youtube.com 3. Advanced Comment Filtering youtube-dl download comments

The original does not natively support downloading comments as a standalone feature. To download YouTube comments, you should use yt-dlp , a modern and actively maintained fork that includes a dedicated --write-comments flag. Why Switch to yt-dlp? You can control the sorting and volume of

: Use --max-comments 100 to fetch only the first 100 entries. Understanding the Output Format you should use yt-dlp

Comments are stored in . This structure includes: download comments into separate comments.json file #2372