View all comments on a YouTube video

Question

I am trying to get all the comments on a YouTube video using a Java program. I cannot get them though as it has the \"Show More\" instead of all the comments. I\'m looking for a

Answer 1

try this it can download all the comments for a given video which i have tested.

https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader

python downloader.py --youtubeid YcZkCnPs45s --output OUT 
Downloading Youtube comments for video: YcZkCnPs45s 
Downloaded 1170 comment(s) 
Done!

output is in the JSON format:

{
  "text": "+Tony Northrup many thanks for the prompt reply - I'll try that.",
  "time": "1 day ago",
  "cid": "z13nfbog0ovqyntk322txzjamuensvpch.1455717946638546"
}