How to Download YouTube Comments With Coberry
While YouTube does not offer a native comment export function, you can use a tool to download and scrape all YouTube video comments.
YouTube creators, researchers and agencies alike are struggling to analyze the sentiment of a video’s audience as there is no native functionality to extract all comments.
Here is where an analytics application like Coberry comes in. It’s intuitive YouTube comments downloader lets you save all YouTube video comments easily and subsequently download in CSV or plain text format.
The downloaded file can be analyzed further in a spreadsheet software such as Excel. To get started, all you have to do is to create a free account.
Extract YouTube Comments
Once signed up, you can start the comment export process by clicking the Add Asset button and pasting the link to a video.
Depending on the number of comments, the exporting them all can take a moment until you see the finished result. A few hundred comments are generally exported within just a few seconds.
Download Comments to Excel
You are redirected to the results after an export completes where you can also find a button to download all comments. You can have them as CSV or as plain text:
- CSV is the better option if you want to further analyze comments in a spreadsheet. You can customize which columns you need during export.
- Plain text can be used to feed your sentiment analysis software. It is automatically stripped off of emoticons as they can often mess with such software.
Conclusion
With Coberry, it has become fairly straightforward to download all comments from YouTube even if you are not the channel owner. It has therefore become a favorite tool for researchers, academics and agencies.
The team is continuously enhancing the application but without your feedback, it might never hear your exact needs. If you have specific requirements, drop them a line to discuss.
