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I posted something the other day and wish I could find the video again. Is there a way I can see all of my comments?

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    To save people time, I can tell you that (ATTOW) the answer seems NOT to be google.com/settings/takeout .. I have tried the "YouTube" 'product', and the "Google+ Pages" and "Google+ Stream" 'products', without success.
    – Peter Ford
    Nov 25, 2015 at 23:25
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    Possible duplicate of Is there a way to find comments you made on YouTube?
    – ale
    Jan 4, 2016 at 21:04
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    If the questions appear to be duplicates, isn't it correct to mark the newer question as the duplicate? This question is #25964 and the other #31960. I would've marked that one a duplicate.
    – Bernhard Hofmann
    Jan 8, 2016 at 14:42
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    Does this not work?
    – Möoz
    Jan 10, 2017 at 3:12
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    @Pacerier I'm guessing ATTOW = At The Time Of Writing
    – Bernhard Hofmann
    Mar 28, 2017 at 8:49

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Youtube has added the ability to see all your comment history from the History > Comments on videos history tab.

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    ≡ | ⌛ History | Comments
    – Bob Stein
    Apr 5, 2017 at 0:25
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    BTW, it seems you can only view that info in "desktop mode".
    – intrepidis
    Jul 22, 2017 at 9:30
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    From your desktop browser from the top right, click on your user avatar/icon > My Channel > (left side under LIBRARY) History > on the right underneath History type select "Comments". Also please don't forget to up vote this answer as well as the question if you found this helpful. t
    – Stunner
    Jan 19, 2018 at 12:45
  • Yes, this works. Perhaps add a description and/or screenshots on how to get to the History page (hamburger menu on the left, select the appropriate history type from the radio buttons)?
    – Peter Mortensen
    Mar 30, 2018 at 16:16
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    the hyperlink in this answer takes you to the right place so no need to navigate the UI (may save someone else a bit of time as I didn't notice it)
    – Martin Smith
    Jan 6, 2019 at 23:16
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It doesn’t seem to be a native way to do this. However, I found this eHow article that lists a few (cumbersome) methods for finding your comments.

  • Enter the username and click "Search comments." This is the one current YouTube feature that does allow direct username searches to find comments. However, only recent comments in the past few hours come back in the search. Use this on the same day of posting a comment before it exceeds the search result time limit.

  • Use the Favorites section to find comments on videos that the user marked as favourites. Log in with the "Sign In" link at the top and scroll over the username at the top of the page. Click on Favorites in the menu that drops down. This section links to the user's "favorited" videos, but the user must then click on each video and search through the comments to find his own comments. This section does not show all the viewing history of the user. However, the videos may contain many of the comments searched for because this lists the user's favourite videos.

  • Use the History section for a more thorough search. Log in with the "Sign In" link at the top. Click "History" at the top or scroll over the username at the top and click "Account." The Account section has a comprehensive list of features. Click "History" and visit each video to find comments.

  • Use the Video Comments feature in the Account section to find personal comments that have received a reply. Click on the list of replies and the video link in each reply to see the videos. Search the comments for the user's username to find comments. This is also a limited feature but shows some of the more active conversations involving the personal user.

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    Can you summarise the eHow page here.
    – ChrisF ♦
    Jun 13, 2013 at 11:09
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    youtube comment search has been discontinued by google. Google trapping users.
    – Muhammad Umer
    May 20, 2015 at 1:51
  • ATTOW, there doesn't seem to be an "Account section" or anything else with a "Video Comments" feature. So bullet #4 may be out-of-date. The incomplete approaches in bullets #2 and #3 should still work, though the instructions for bullet #2 seem to be out-of-date.
    – Peter Ford
    Nov 25, 2015 at 23:43
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    This is outdated now. Please see other answer
    – My Name
    May 10, 2017 at 19:59
  • User Stunner's answer works (2019).
    – Peter Mortensen
    Aug 13, 2019 at 12:28
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@Stunner's answer really deserves some screenshots, so here goes:

  1. Go to https://youtube.com --> click on "History" in the left-hand pane: enter image description here
  2. Now click on "Comments" on the right: enter image description here
  3. Et voilá vos commentaires! (And there are your comments!): enter image description here
  4. Or just click here: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history.
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  • are you indeed ok with showing your own comment history, bookmarks, extensions, etc? i figure privacy or whatever like you might've overlooked something, but if you're ok with it, then...
    – BCLC
    Apr 2, 2021 at 12:54
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    @BCLC, yeah, I don't see anything too personal or revealing. Do you?
    – Gabriel Staples
    Apr 6, 2021 at 3:52
  • ayt well for me i would've cropped/trimmed out the bookmarks, tabs, extensions, etc. i wouldn't want people to judge me on my bookmarks, tabs, extensions, etc. you however are very sophisticated in your bookmarks, tabs, extensions, etc, sooo good for you XD
    – BCLC
    Apr 6, 2021 at 4:20
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    btw the automatic pool is really cool!
    – BCLC
    Apr 6, 2021 at 4:21
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    Ay, Regarding my folder named 1.00x in my bookmarks at the top, check this out. This is super cool. I describe here what is inside that folder: javascript bookmarklets to speed up or slow down video playback, such as on YouTube or almost anywhere else.
    – Gabriel Staples
    Apr 6, 2021 at 5:16
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My YouTube user name is Siddharth Swaroop.

Therefore, I would conduct a Google search for:

"Siddharth Swaroop" site:youtube.com/all_comments
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    isn't accurate most of my comments don't show up
    – Muhammad Umer
    May 20, 2015 at 1:50
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    this is a nice ideea and it works but ... ONLY AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A REALLY UNIQUE NAME, if your name is common enough, you may find millions of results with the same name and worse, with names that contain your name and the actual problem with this solution is the fact that comments don't contain the google/youtube id, but the full name of the user (id is unique, full name is not)
    – THESorcerer
    Mar 9, 2016 at 14:45
  • youtube.com/all_comments redirects to youtube.com. I don't know if that says anything, but is site:youtube.com/all_comments valid syntax?
    – Peter Mortensen
    Aug 13, 2019 at 11:59
  • This does not work at all. When I tried it, I got two complete unrelated search hits, "The A's - (12) A Woman's Got Power - YouTube" and "The A's - Words [1979] - YouTube".
    – Peter Mortensen
    Aug 13, 2019 at 12:22
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Go to

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history

you should be redirected to somewhere in https://myactivity.google.com

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In the upper left corner where it says Upload, click the drop down menu. Then click Analytics. On the bottom left, click inbox. That's where replies to your comments will be.

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https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/45724/51289 answers this:

Also, to see all your youtube comments, you can use tubecomments.com. You type in your username and it shows your whole comment history.

I tried it and it worked!

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    right now is not working, I tried both the name and then the id of the user I'm interested in and both times I got no results ... sry
    – THESorcerer
    Mar 9, 2016 at 14:51
  • It still works for me, but seems to be returning a random selection of my comments. No one else's username is working. Maybe you have to be logged in?
    – Noumenon
    Mar 9, 2016 at 17:00
  • Looks like this relies on googe's youtube comment search, which someone else claims has been discontinued... so this won't work anymore
    – B T
    Aug 25, 2016 at 7:08
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    It returned "pageok" when I tried it.
    – Peter Mortensen
    Aug 13, 2019 at 12:00

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