Is there any way to scrape YouTube comments by specific keywords?

Question

I want to scrape YouTube comments but only those which have a particular keyword in them. And that keyword will be set by me. For example, if I only want comments with the word "password" in them. So, can I do something like that?

I am scraping using Google Spreadsheets Apps Script. I have managed to scrape all comments, with and without replies.

Answer 1

Try something like this:

let wantedComments = [];
let keyword = "keyword"
let re = new RegExp(`${keyword}`,'g');
commentslist.forEach(c => {
  if(c.match(r)) {
    wantedComments.push(c)
  }
});

Presumably you will be getting a list from the youtube api in the form of an array. So loop through it a run it through the loop to only capture the ones with you keyword.