# egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader

Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API

Repository: https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/youtube-comment-downloader
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: youtube-comments, youtube, python, data-science, data-scraper
Last push: 2026-07-30T09:02:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 71, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4020, "days_push": 34, "days_rel": 34, "gap_med": 167.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1247, forks 260 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:07.553027+00:00)

## What it is
A Python script and library for downloading YouTube video comments without using the official YouTube API. It outputs comments in JSONL, JSON, CSV, or semicolon-separated CSV and can be used from the command line or imported as a library.

## Use cases
- download youtube comments without api
- scrape youtube video comments to csv
- get most popular comments for a youtube video
- export youtube comments as jsonl
- collect youtube comments for sentiment analysis

## When to choose
- you need YouTube comments without API quota or an API key
- you want a lightweight pip-installable CLI or Python library
- you need multiple output formats like JSONL or CSV

## When to avoid
- you need authenticated replies, full threading, or API-guaranteed stability
- you need a GUI or bulk channel-wide scraping
- you require a solution resilient to YouTube layout changes with vendor support

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, cli, data-science, json, csv
- domain: crawlers, social-media, data-science, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: youtube, comments, scraper, no-api, jsonl

## Member repositories
- egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.553027+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:07:56.702287+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.553027+00:00, sha a42dd504e850)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/youtube-comment-downloader/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:19:11.973743+00:00, sha 61868d446bdd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.