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programmer1o1 opened this issue 7 months ago · comments

Verybadprogrammer1o1 commented 7 months ago

Clicking "reload" on the comments doesn't load the comments anymore or just loading doesn't work anymore. Please fix it. Thanks you so much.

NicPalacio · Answer 1 · Fri Mar 29 2024 09:44:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Exactly it happen for me recently too , it does not work in any browser

@sonigy , @knoajp, @Letssharearow any idea why ? If you need help I will be happy to contribute but I think that it has to do with something more technical.

chuimoi · Answer 2 · Sat Mar 30 2024 05:04:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

For me, it doesn't work with firefox

Jack Wu · Answer 3 · Sat Mar 30 2024 07:10:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Guys, the author has probably died by now. Just move on to another chrome extension. There are plenty.

Verybadprogrammer1o1 · Answer 4 · Sat Mar 30 2024 07:59:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Guys, the author has probably died by now. Just move on to another chrome extension. There are plenty.

To be fair, it's the best one right now. There aren't many good extensions like these in Firefox, and maybe Chrome too.

NicPalacio · Answer 5 · Sat Mar 30 2024 08:07:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@JackOfSpade mm not sure why you say that xD, but there us not really an alternative to this extension, only this one does the work

RenegadeScooter · Answer 6 · Sat Mar 30 2024 12:17:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I use Brave (version 1.64.113, Chromium 123.0.6312.86, 64-bit).
The extension loads comments for normal windows, but not private windows.

knoa · Answer 7 · Sat Mar 30 2024 17:04:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@NicPalacio Thank you for mentioning me😆, by quick investigation, it does load comments but only fails to handle/show.
Although I haven't checked the extension code yet, it could be caused by just a JSON structural modification by YouTube.

As well as making a quick patch on the YCS, I expect some nice alternatives to appear, like the IYCS project. 😉
https://github.com/StellarSt0rm/IYCS
@StellarSt0rm

knoa · Answer 8 · Sun Mar 31 2024 03:44:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

🤔 It seems to take much effort to solve it...

YCS source code on Mac Chrome (minified):
Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/pmfhcilikeembgbiadjiojgfgcfbcoaa/1.1.12_0/web-resources/wresources.js

JSON API:
https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/next?key=xxxx

Currently, comments are in:
JSON.frameworkUpdates.entityBatchUpdate.mutations

But there are no such property names in wresources.js.
Still, I can find JSON.onResponseReceivedEndpoints in wresources.js, which might haven't changed.

knoa · Answer 9 · Sun Mar 31 2024 04:01:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My biggest reason for using YCS is to browse popular comments by Likes order.
So my temporal workaround is using the CSS below to highlight popular comments.

#vote-count-middle{
  color: black !important;
  border-radius: .5em;
  padding: .25em .5em;
}
/*1000-*/#like-button:has(:is(button[aria-label*="K "], button[aria-label*="M "])) + #vote-count-middle{
  font-weight: bold;
  background: #f008;
  border: 1px solid #f00f;
}
/*100-999*/#vote-count-middle{
  background: #f004;
  border: 1px solid #f008;
}
/*10-99*/#like-button:has(:is(
  button[aria-label*=" 10 "], button[aria-label*=" 11 "], button[aria-label*=" 12 "], button[aria-label*=" 13 "], button[aria-label*=" 14 "], button[aria-label*=" 15 "], button[aria-label*=" 16 "], button[aria-label*=" 17 "], button[aria-label*=" 18 "], button[aria-label*=" 19 "],
  button[aria-label*=" 20 "], button[aria-label*=" 21 "], button[aria-label*=" 22 "], button[aria-label*=" 23 "], button[aria-label*=" 24 "], button[aria-label*=" 25 "], button[aria-label*=" 26 "], button[aria-label*=" 27 "], button[aria-label*=" 28 "], button[aria-label*=" 29 "],
  button[aria-label*=" 30 "], button[aria-label*=" 31 "], button[aria-label*=" 32 "], button[aria-label*=" 33 "], button[aria-label*=" 34 "], button[aria-label*=" 35 "], button[aria-label*=" 36 "], button[aria-label*=" 37 "], button[aria-label*=" 38 "], button[aria-label*=" 39 "],
  button[aria-label*=" 40 "], button[aria-label*=" 41 "], button[aria-label*=" 42 "], button[aria-label*=" 43 "], button[aria-label*=" 44 "], button[aria-label*=" 45 "], button[aria-label*=" 46 "], button[aria-label*=" 47 "], button[aria-label*=" 48 "], button[aria-label*=" 49 "],
  button[aria-label*=" 50 "], button[aria-label*=" 51 "], button[aria-label*=" 52 "], button[aria-label*=" 53 "], button[aria-label*=" 54 "], button[aria-label*=" 55 "], button[aria-label*=" 56 "], button[aria-label*=" 57 "], button[aria-label*=" 58 "], button[aria-label*=" 59 "],
  button[aria-label*=" 60 "], button[aria-label*=" 61 "], button[aria-label*=" 62 "], button[aria-label*=" 63 "], button[aria-label*=" 64 "], button[aria-label*=" 65 "], button[aria-label*=" 66 "], button[aria-label*=" 67 "], button[aria-label*=" 68 "], button[aria-label*=" 69 "],
  button[aria-label*=" 70 "], button[aria-label*=" 71 "], button[aria-label*=" 72 "], button[aria-label*=" 73 "], button[aria-label*=" 74 "], button[aria-label*=" 75 "], button[aria-label*=" 76 "], button[aria-label*=" 77 "], button[aria-label*=" 78 "], button[aria-label*=" 79 "],
  button[aria-label*=" 80 "], button[aria-label*=" 81 "], button[aria-label*=" 82 "], button[aria-label*=" 83 "], button[aria-label*=" 84 "], button[aria-label*=" 85 "], button[aria-label*=" 86 "], button[aria-label*=" 87 "], button[aria-label*=" 88 "], button[aria-label*=" 89 "],
  button[aria-label*=" 90 "], button[aria-label*=" 91 "], button[aria-label*=" 92 "], button[aria-label*=" 93 "], button[aria-label*=" 94 "], button[aria-label*=" 95 "], button[aria-label*=" 96 "], button[aria-label*=" 97 "], button[aria-label*=" 98 "], button[aria-label*=" 99 "],
dummy)) + #vote-count-middle{
  background: #f002;
  border: 1px solid #f004;
}
/*1-9*/#like-button:has(:is(
  button[aria-label*=" 1 "], button[aria-label*=" 2 "], button[aria-label*=" 3 "], button[aria-label*=" 4 "], button[aria-label*=" 5 "], button[aria-label*=" 6 "], button[aria-label*=" 7 "], button[aria-label*=" 8 "], button[aria-label*=" 9 "],
dummy)) + #vote-count-middle{
  background: #f001;
  border: 1px solid #f002;
}

Mia Rodriguez · Answer 10 · Tue Apr 02 2024 11:28:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

this is happening to me aswell. from my investigation the API is returning the data, and the extension does get all the comments, but it never actually puts them in the UI. this might be due to a change in the structure of how they return stuff that could've changed recently which made this issue arise but until I or someone else does more research this will stay broken.

for some reason this repository does not contain the source code of the YCS extension which is a little sad, but I will make my own version of this extension on github if I do manage to fix it, with credits to the original creator ofcourse. (the extension that you can download from webstore is minified)

suprisingly still works on my laptop, which has had the extension for a long time, weird...

Mia Rodriguez · Answer 11 · Fri Apr 05 2024 13:45:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

~~i've figured out atleast 1 issue.~~

this extension stops working some versions after chromium 122, i've tested this extension and it's worked on 121.0.6156.0 (chromium build), and 122.0.6261.137 (chrome build) but stopped working around 123.0.6312.106 (chrome build) which released to the stable channel around the time this issue was posted.

when i mention chromium i also mean chrome as chrome is built on top of chromium, so they are practically interchangeable.

the statement above and list below may not be correct as the extension has become unresponsive after a day on the same instance. see my latest issue on 04/07/2024 to read more

Version	Working
≤122.0.6261.137 (less than or equal to)
any version inbetween may or may not work
≥123 (greater than or equal to)

YCS on chrome 121, looked the same on chromium 122, worked like it used to

YCS on chrome 123, basically just wouldn't load at all

this means that the extension Youtube Comment Search is not broken, but the versions/releases of chrome after or on 123 are breaking it.

i will try fixing the extension to work in these new versions, but for now the only solution if you want to use YCS, is to go back/downgrade to 121 or 122.

mauigirl · Answer 12 · Sat Apr 06 2024 05:34:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm running Chrome 116 on three older laptops and it stopped working on all those installations too, so it's not a v123 issue for me. Same in Firefox. I've turned off other extensions, cleared history, sometimes that will get a few comments or chat to load briefly but never the transcript anymore and even the partial comments don't last long (minutes).

Slowlyness · Answer 13 · Sat Apr 06 2024 05:46:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have the same issue with Firefox 124.0.2 (64-bit).
Reload-Button of "comments" is grayed out. Search in comments is not working.
I thought it might be an issue with uMatrix etc. which could block a script from a change on the Youtube.com website. But it was not the case. Even when all extensions in FF are disabled, the issue with YCS persists.
Unfortunately, I'm not a web developer who could parse the issue deeper.
Hope a solution will be found soon.
I like the YCS extension => Thanks to the maintainer(-s)!!! 👍

NicPalacio · Answer 14 · Sat Apr 06 2024 05:55:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It is very true @xNasuni two weeks ago stopped working for me in Edge and continued to work for me in Chrome but with the update this morning it stopped working in Chrome too which shows that it is a problem with the new chronium.

NicPalacio · Answer 15 · Sun Apr 07 2024 02:58:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @xNasuni , how are you, any updates?

I've been reviewing it, but I can't seem to understand the error in the code. The problem is that all browsers have already updated to version 123 of Chromium, so as of now, it's not working on any browser. I also looked into your advice on downgrading Chrome, but I'm not sure how I could do that. I found tools like FileHippo, but the latest version available for download is 104, and YCS doesn't work on that version either. Do you know of any way to specifically use Chromium 122?

RenegadeScooter · Answer 16 · Sun Apr 07 2024 09:46:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It's not working for me at all anymore.
Brave version 1.64.116, Chromium 123.0.6312.105, 64-bit

Ahmed Mohamedeen · Answer 17 · Sun Apr 07 2024 11:02:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Did youtube change the API interface? What's happening, anyone knows how to access the extension's devtools?

Mia Rodriguez · Answer 18 · Sun Apr 07 2024 15:01:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @xNasuni , how are you, any updates?

I've been reviewing it, but I can't seem to understand the error in the code. The problem is that all browsers have already updated to version 123 of Chromium, so as of now, it's not working on any browser. I also looked into your advice on downgrading Chrome, but I'm not sure how I could do that. I found tools like FileHippo, but the latest version available for download is 104, and YCS doesn't work on that version either. Do you know of any way to specifically use Chromium 122?

I usually use npx to install chromium builds for testing by using the command npx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome@version and in this case I would run npx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome@122.0.6261.137 but I think my original hypothesis was incorrect.

Both versions that I tested it on have stopped working as of currently and nothing I can do gets it to work unless I completely reset the browser which goes inline with one of the reviews that said some of these fixes only work for about a day or so then it stops working.

I guess that's what I am facing with now, using a brand new browser with no previous data or similar fixes it for a day or so and then it breaks again. I will continue trying to find a fix for this, and in the mean time I have sent an inquiry to the developer's personal email and also sent the same email to the contact email for this project ycs.ext@gmail.com which I doubt I'll get a reply from.

Ahmed Mohamedeen · Answer 19 · Sun Apr 07 2024 15:06:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I usually use npx to install chromium builds for testing by using the command npx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome@version and in this case I would run npx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome@122.0.6261.137 but I think my original hypothesis was incorrect.

Both versions that I tested it on have stopped working as of currently and nothing I can do gets it to work unless I completely reset the browser which goes inline with one of the reviews that said some of these fixes only work for about a day or so then it stops working.

I guess that's what I am facing with now, using a brand new browser with no previous data or similar fixes it for a day or so and then it breaks again. I will continue trying to find a fix for this, and in the mean time I have sent an inquiry to the developer's personal email and also sent the same email to the contact email for this project ycs.ext@gmail.com which I doubt I'll get a reply from.

Yea, it's not a browser thing it seems, maybe switching versions somehow serves you a different version of youtube web api temporarily because they're using a/b testing for different versions/changes.

A classic thing for such extensions is that YT has done an API change or patched something that the extension was using and likely it can't be solved with either a fix from the author or a fork of the extension with a fix.

NicPalacio · Answer 20 · Mon Apr 08 2024 03:19:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thank you @xNasuni for your response and your work. I will try to find a fix as well, but to be honest, I don't have too much technical knowledge. If anyone discover some alternative or workaround to fetch all comments of a Youtube video with the recently changes, please let us know. I use the extension a lot to search for timestamped comments, most liked comments, and the YouTube experience decreases a lot without it :(

Slowlyness · Answer 21 · Mon Apr 08 2024 04:34:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi there,
For guys who want to test with other browser emulations or older versions of Edge:
I know, that in Edge it is possible to emulate other browser/versions etc.

Here's the how to (extract from copilot - I checked it for another purpose last week):

Open Microsoft Edge 1.
Press Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows, Linux) or Command+Shift+P (macOS) to open the Command Menu 1.
Type network conditions, select Show Network conditions, and then press Enter to open the Network conditions tool 1.
In the User agent section, clear the Use browser default checkbox 1.
Select a user agent from the dropdown list, or enter a custom user agent 1

If someone is searching for older firefox versions: click

Source with more information for firefox downgrading: click

Hope it helps someone. 🙂

NicPalacio · Answer 22 · Mon Apr 08 2024 05:20:48 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@Slowlyness Thank you for the info. I tried changing the network conditions, but it only shows the latest version of Edge. Do you know how I can specify a previous version, like 122 or something?"

I attempted to install an older version of Firefox, but none of them worked. It's probably because the issue stems from the Chromium version in which the extension runs, rather than the specific version of Firefox itself.

NicPalacio · Answer 23 · Mon Apr 08 2024 05:30:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@xNasuni I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the extension loads Chat replay correctly. Perhaps this gives an idea of why it's not able to do the same with comments.

Additionally, I found this other 2 extensions that do a similar job :

Interestingly, they fetch the comments properly and the first one even orders them by likes. The only issue with the first one is that it's a pop-up and doesn't stay on top always, plus the UI isn't that good and additionally I notice that it does not always fetch ALL the comments (sometimes only 70% of the total), while the second one fetches all comments. However, I think reviewing the code of those extensions could provide some valuable clues to help resolve the problem of YCS not fetching the comments.

Slowlyness · Answer 24 · Mon Apr 08 2024 06:10:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Do you know how I can specify a previous version, like 122 or something?"

Unfortunately no. Mhhh.

Slowlyness · Answer 25 · Fri Apr 12 2024 05:49:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I checked YCS on my FireFox portable version 122.1.1 64-bit on my mediacenter pc.
It's still working there.
I also check to click the "reload" button for comments. On my mediacenter pc the buttons is labelled "load".
After this, the YCS is searching only the transscript of the video. Not sure how it behaved before.

Aldo113A · Answer 26 · Wed Apr 17 2024 17:16:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Eugene Gubar

Has anyone yet? This is too valuable an extension to lose

Michael Andersen · Answer 27 · Fri Apr 19 2024 20:08:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I saw another post somewhere, that the distributed .xpi files of a firefox add-on, is basically just a zip file.
So I got inspired to try to extract it, and I have posted the embedded source code here:
https://github.com/Miwer/YCS-firefox-source

The code is compacted into very unreadable format, but I managed to run it through some beautifiers to make it more readable.

Maybe somebody can use it to make a new fork or something like that. wink wink

Enjoy ;)

Aldo113A · Answer 28 · Sat Apr 20 2024 07:56:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I saw another post somewhere, that the distributed .xpi files of a firefox add-on, is basically just a zip file. So I got inspired to try to extract it, and I have posted the embedded source code here: https://github.com/Miwer/YCS-firefox-source

The code is compacted into very unreadable format, but I managed to run it through some beautifiers to make it more readable.

Maybe somebody can use it to make a new fork or something like that. wink wink

Enjoy ;)

When's this become a useful replacementz is it when it's Chrome-adapted

Dr. House · Answer 29 · Sat Apr 20 2024 15:54:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

When's this become a useful replacementz is it when it's Chrome-adapted

why not just unzip the YCS Chrome .crx file? here

I'm confused, are recent comments coming from well-intentioned people who don't know how to code and are trying to help? The problem has never been getting the code... it's not behaving the way it's expected, an abnormal problem, it's supposed to work, it's getting the data, but the output isn't consistently reaching the page and no one can figure out why, except that it might have to do with updated Chrome version changes

ImprovedTube · Answer 30 · Wed Apr 24 2024 13:09:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

hi guys! always planned to integrate this: ImprovedTube#Roadmap:Continuously integrate awesome code &hoping @songiy would join that, since the repo is stating an MIT license)

Lets brainstorm and list/rank more/all alternatives! - In the meantime i'm sending this conversation to the four email addresses belonging to the projects mentioned above.

YouTube Comment Search Extensions

....
....

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-actual-top-commen/hbdmelobmfcompinikjdaiphhonbgfpn .

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/comments-search-for-youtu/fbbhnhgdgjbfnkoiiedglmlnmleefjga

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/timetags-for-youtube/hpbmedimnlknflpbgfbllklgelbnelef (fetches only comments with timestamps)

Interestingly, they fetch the comments properly and the first one even orders them by likes. The only issue with the first one is that it's a pop-up and doesn't stay on top always, plus the UI isn't that good and additionally I notice that it does not always fetch ALL the comments (sometimes only 70% of the total), while the second one fetches all comments. However, I think reviewing the code of those extensions could provide some valuable clues to help resolve the problem of YCS not fetching the comments.

Editing `www.youtube.com` to undo change

Generally, while we often have to bother with the DOM, you might be able to undo some changes to comments with a uBlock rule, such as
www.youtube.com##+js(set,yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_flexy_comments_manager, false) (no sure which one, if it works with any)

please check what other yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS you might get and add them here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GidvMduxTl6jXpDCKj-sOPg8KSqDfCYO2OlCdBADaSI/edit#gid=0 ( @code-charity/contributors )

NewsGuyTor · Answer 31 · Fri Apr 26 2024 19:13:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

WTF, why/how did this start working again? I see it hasn't been updated, glad to see that it works again though.

Tom · Answer 32 · Fri Apr 26 2024 23:33:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

WTF, why/how did this start working again? I see it hasn't been updated, glad to see that it works again though.

Elaborate on this please. I am still unable to use it. Which version of Chrome & what's what machine?

NewsGuyTor · Answer 33 · Fri Apr 26 2024 23:36:50 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

WTF, why/how did this start working again? I see it hasn't been updated, glad to see that it works again though.

Elaborate on this please. I am still unable to use it. Which version of Chrome & what's what machine?

Chrome?! 🤮

I'm using Firefox ofc, 126.0b4.

Tom · Answer 34 · Fri Apr 26 2024 23:38:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

WTF, why/how did this start working again? I see it hasn't been updated, glad to see that it works again though.

Elaborate on this please. I am still unable to use it. Which version of Chrome & what's what machine?

Chrome?! 🤮

I'm using Firefox ofc, 126.0b4.

Shut up! 🤣 Also thank you

Tom · Answer 35 · Fri Apr 26 2024 23:46:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

WTF, why/how did this start working again? I see it hasn't been updated, glad to see that it works again though.

Elaborate on this please. I am still unable to use it. Which version of Chrome & what's what machine?

Chrome?! 🤮

I'm using Firefox ofc, 126.0b4.

My machine (Apple Silicon) will only let me go up to version 125.0.2 & it's still not working so I would imagine that is the reason. Are you running on AMD or Intel? Or are you using Firefox Beta?

EDIT: I just realized the b4 probably means beta my bad

NewsGuyTor · Answer 36 · Fri Apr 26 2024 23:48:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

WTF, why/how did this start working again? I see it hasn't been updated, glad to see that it works again though.

Elaborate on this please. I am still unable to use it. Which version of Chrome & what's what machine?

Chrome?! 🤮
I'm using Firefox ofc, 126.0b4.

My machine (Apple Silicon) will only let me go up to version 125.0.2 & it's still not working so I would imagine that is the reason. Are you running on AMD or Intel? Or are you using Firefox Beta?

Developer Edition, on Macbook Air M1.

Tom · Answer 37 · Fri Apr 26 2024 23:57:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

126.0b4

Tried on my machine which is essentially the same as yours... No luck.

NewsGuyTor · Answer 38 · Sat Apr 27 2024 00:24:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

These are my PREF cookie values, perhaps they do the trick.

Michael Andersen · Answer 39 · Sat Apr 27 2024 04:16:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

These are my PREF cookie values, perhaps they do the trick.

Tried your PREF settings - did not make YCS work for me. Only F5 and F7 are retained when refreshing. F4 and F6 are removed.

Firefox 125.0.1 on Linux

Slowlyness · Answer 40 · Sat Apr 27 2024 05:29:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Where to set those values?
Can anybody provide a short explanation about the F6 f5 etc.?
I've never seen such cookie denotation before and have no clue... 🤪
Thx

Michael Andersen · Answer 41 · Sat Apr 27 2024 16:10:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Where to set those values? Can anybody provide a short explanation about the F6 f5 etc.? I've never seen such cookie denotation before and have no clue... 🤪 Thx

It's just a standard cookie for the youtube.com domain called PREF - how to edit it will depend on which browser you use. I use an extension called Cookie Quick Manager.

Slowlyness · Answer 42 · Sat Apr 27 2024 17:38:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

OK. Thanks. I understood, that PREF would be the PREFERRED settings...
Honestly: I do not believe that a value in a cookie from youtube will have any impact of YCS.

Regarding PREF:

YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as a user’s preferred page configuration and playback preferences like autoplay, shuffle content, and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode, and autoplay. This cookie expires 8 months from a user’s last use.

Source: https://cookiedatabase.org/cookie/youtube/pref/

Don't I remember right that there is a website programmer's security rule, to avoid that one integrated script can access cookies from another script/domain??? I think there was a Java-Flag for this (I'm not a web developer).

NewsGuyTor · Answer 43 · Sat Apr 27 2024 17:42:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well, it works for me, so there's gotta be something about my setup that makes it work. Other than the browser version talk above, that cookie seemed the most likely to impact things. I doubt they do it by IP location.

Do you guys have any idea about where I should look?

It

Michael Andersen · Answer 44 · Sat Apr 27 2024 18:56:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

... Honestly: I do not believe that a value in a cookie from youtube will have any impact of YCS.

Well, technically, it is indeed possible for youtube to change the layout of the web page, or the workings of the information presented, based on a cookie setting. There has been reporting about the F6=8 setting to get "Youtube classic" back no longer working, which seems to indicate that youtube does in fact have (or at least had) different layouts based on a cookie setting.
Now since I do not know the inner workings of YCS, I'm not saying that this is the cause of YCS not working for us, but it very much COULD have the potential to break an extension like YCS. So it's fair to try different settings to see if it makes a difference. It could also just as well be a red herring, and then you would be absolutely correct in your belief. :)

Verybadprogrammer1o1 · Answer 45 · Sat Apr 27 2024 19:22:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey there, guys. So, this extension is not going to be fixed. So, I figure I will just make another one similar to it. (Do note that you need your own youtube api key for this but I will find if you actually don't need one)
Here is a preview of this:

Tom · Answer 46 · Sat Apr 27 2024 21:34:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well, technically, it is indeed possible for youtube to change the layout of the web page, or the workings of the information presented, based on a cookie setting. There has been reporting about the F6=8 setting to get "Youtube classic" back no longer working, which seems to indicate that youtube does in fact have (or at least had) different layouts based on a cookie setting.

Best response I have seen yet!

Dr. House · Answer 47 · Sat Apr 27 2024 22:17:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey there, guys. So, this extension is not going to be fixed. So, I figure I will just make another one similar to it. (Do note that you need your own youtube api key for this but I will find if you actually don't need one)

excellent news. Let us know if there's any estimate on when we might be able to try it or any way we can help.

Ahmed Mohamedeen · Answer 48 · Thu May 09 2024 03:26:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey there, guys. So, this extension is not going to be fixed. So, I figure I will just make another one similar to it. (Do note that you need your own youtube api key for this but I will find if you actually don't need one)

@programmer1o1 Any news? Are you developing it in public (preferred, so that community can contribute especially if you're going to make the user input their token then it should be public code for sure) - check out this project https://github.com/raj-khare/yt-migrate it uses the whole youtube API and has documentation/guide on how to do so for the end users (GCP app etc..) but it's not an extension.

On a side note, I think this YCS extension creator just reverse-engineered the youtube components requests in the same tab and injected elements that utilize the same personal tokens for the same endpoints to scroll through the comments' pages and harvest for search.
But the author is no longer active for some reason and it broke due to an API change so the served data structure was changes (for the comments calls) and no proper error handling was put in place hence when one failed all the other functionalities broke with it.

Verybadprogrammer1o1 · Answer 49 · Fri May 10 2024 20:08:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey there, guys. So, this extension is not going to be fixed. So, I figure I will just make another one similar to it. (Do note that you need your own youtube api key for this but I will find if you actually don't need one)

@programmer1o1 Any news? Are you developing it in public (preferred, so that community can contribute especially if you're going to make the user input their token then it should be public code for sure) - check out this project https://github.com/raj-khare/yt-migrate it uses the whole youtube API and has documentation/guide on how to do so for the end users (GCP app etc..) but it's not an extension.

On a side note, I think this YCS extension creator just reverse-engineered the youtube components requests in the same tab and injected elements that utilize the same personal tokens for the same endpoints to scroll through the comments' pages and harvest for search. But the author is no longer active for some reason and it broke due to an API change so the served data structure was changes (for the comments calls) and no proper error handling was put in place hence when one failed all the other functionalities broke with it.

Hi, I am still developing it but I am busy as I have something to do, but I will eventually provide the source code if I have enough time to do so. Thanks for providing the project link for guide.

5koder · Answer 50 · Sun May 26 2024 09:11:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The extension works for me now. I had it disabled for a couple of months. I removed it today and then installed it again. I went to test if it was working and it to my surprise, it was. Only thing that doesn't seem to work is the "Transcript video" but I never needed that anyway.

I'm on Firefox Developer Edition v127.0b6.

Dr. House · Answer 51 · Sun May 26 2024 09:22:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The extension works for me now.

you're lucky, I just tried Firefox standard, nightly and dev edition and none of them work with YCS. Maybe you should save your cookies or never close that browser lol

Mia Rodriguez · Answer 52 · Sun May 26 2024 14:59:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

you shouldn't use YCS anyway, you are vulnerable to XSS because the developer didn't sanitize the comments so it has always been very dangerous to use anyway.

i believe we should wait for @programmer1o1 's version of YCS

frank-n-steinn · Answer 53 · Sun May 26 2024 16:03:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey guys, why don't you just use the chrome extension "YouTube Comment Reader". It works. Loads all comments of a YT vid (without API key). Presents them in spreadsheet format with sort & filter functions. Supports navigation through comments & responses via arrow keys etc.

Slowlyness · Answer 54 · Sun May 26 2024 18:29:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey guys, why don't you just use the chrome extension "YouTube Comment Reader". It works. Loads all comments of a YT vid (without API key). Presents them in spreadsheet format with sort & filter functions. Supports navigation through comments & responses via arrow keys etc.

Because there are a lot of guys, who don't like to use Chrome - for various reasons... 😉

frank-n-steinn · Answer 55 · Sun May 26 2024 19:55:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey guys, why don't you just use the chrome extension "YouTube Comment Reader". It works. Loads all comments of a YT vid (without API key). Presents them in spreadsheet format with sort & filter functions. Supports navigation through comments & responses via arrow keys etc.

Because there are a lot of guys, who don't like to use Chrome - for various reasons... 😉

But chrome extensions run on every chromium based browsers like Opera, Brave, Edge etc. And btw "YouTube Comment Reader" is also available as a firefox add-on.

lbmaian · Answer 56 · Sun May 26 2024 20:04:43 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

FWIW I found this extension useful for searching for comments with timestamps while still showing the timestamper's name and without fancy mucking about with the video's progress bar. I haven't found another extension with this functionality yet.

Chih-Hsuan Fan · Answer 57 · Sat Jun 01 2024 02:34:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've created a fixed version of YCS here: https://github.com/pc035860/YCS-cont

I don't have prior experience using the comment searching functionality. If you notice any behavior that differs from before, please let me know.

I'm unsure if it's appropriate, or if I need to include any specific mentions or information in the repository. Any suggestions are welcome.

lbmaian · Answer 58 · Sat Jun 01 2024 03:44:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've created a fixed version of YCS here: https://github.com/pc035860/YCS-cont

I don't have prior experience using the comment searching functionality. If you notice any behavior that differs from before, please let me know.

I'm unsure if it's appropriate, or if I need to include any specific mentions or information in the repository. Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks! It works fine on my end.

NicPalacio · Answer 59 · Sun Jun 02 2024 02:40:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@pc035860 This works great! Thanks so much. I was wondering if it's possible to load the transcript as well. For me, the video transcript doesn't load, and I often find it really helpful for searching within the content.

Slowlyness · Answer 60 · Sun Jun 02 2024 03:17:48 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks a lot. Great thing.👍
It works so far, but I get the YCS only shown after clicking the AddOn's icon in the Toolbar of Firefox.
Maybe this is due to some active other extensions? (I don't really believe that)
Do you other guys the same behavior?

Ahmed Mohamedeen · Answer 61 · Sun Jun 02 2024 03:49:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

That’s some great effort you put into that, but still so many undiscovered parts of the code base. Could be a start off some great open source extension! Will try to look into it when I can. But it works great! Kudos to you

Dr. House · Answer 62 · Sun Jun 02 2024 06:06:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks a lot. Great thing.👍 It works so far, but I get the YCS only shown after clicking the AddOn's icon in the Toolbar of Firefox. Maybe this is due to some active other extensions? (I don't really believe that) Do you other guys the same behavior?

ah finally, clicking on the toolbar icon loads the search interface, I was wondering how it was working for everyone else

Aldo113A · Answer 63 · Sun Jun 02 2024 10:33:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've created a fixed version of YCS here: https://github.com/pc035860/YCS-cont

I don't have prior experience using the comment searching functionality. If you notice any behavior that differs from before, please let me know.

I'm unsure if it's appropriate, or if I need to include any specific mentions or information in the repository. Any suggestions are welcome.

Shockin' A, man

Chih-Hsuan Fan · Answer 64 · Sun Jun 02 2024 12:31:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks a lot. Great thing.👍 It works so far, but I get the YCS only shown after clicking the AddOn's icon in the Toolbar of Firefox. Maybe this is due to some active other extensions? (I don't really believe that) Do you other guys the same behavior?

I suspect this issue might be related to Firefox permissions for the extension and domain interaction.
By default, it only allows content scripts to run when you click on the toolbar icon.

Choose Always Allow on www.youtube.com to enable automatic loading.

Slowlyness · Answer 65 · Sun Jun 02 2024 17:19:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Choose Always Allow on www.youtube.com to enable automatic loading.

PERFECT!
Many thanks for this hint! 👍
I've never needed to use this function and was not aware of it.
It's all perfect now.

Dr. House · Answer 66 · Sun Jun 02 2024 18:33:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I really didn't think it'd actually work, but I have a working Chrome version of YCS. Using @pc035860's YCS Firefox source files, I asked GPT to convert them to Chrome. After testing, it works... for the most part:

Autoloading Comments: I added setTimeout(function(){loadChat.click()}, 1000); in wresources.js, which autoloads comments (please remove if unwanted)
Chat Replay, Highlight Text and Export Cache do work, Transcript does not.

chrome-YCS-continued-1.2.1.rar

DLSUliogarcia · Answer 67 · Tue Jun 04 2024 15:09:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi. Thanks @pc035860 for making the extension. It works great for the most part.
That being said, I say "most part" because it seems like the extension doesn't properly sort comments with more than 1000 likes? When sorted, the highest sorted likes are in the hundreds, even when there are comments with thousands of likes.
Is it because YT represents comments with thousands of likes as "k" (e.g. 1100 likes = 1.1k, 25000 = 25k, etc.)?

Slowlyness · Answer 68 · Tue Jun 04 2024 17:58:26 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@DLSUliogarcia: The most minimum what we can do to assist the maintainer of the code and make it as easy as possible for him to reproduce the error is by providing the minimum needed information for reproduction.
May I ask you to provide a link to the respective video?
(because, I think, I have never seen/watched a video where there are single comments with more than 1k likes at all...)
Thx! 🙂

DLSUliogarcia · Answer 69 · Tue Jun 04 2024 18:17:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It's not just one video I've encountered this on. So far, I've encountered the issue on several videos with many comments that have more than 1000 likes.
Well, here's a popular song on YT, with around 2400 comments and quite a few of them have more than 1000 likes.
YT Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYBUbBu4W08

If you look at the comments section without the extension, several top comments have several thousands of likes (represented by 'k'). However, when clicking on the extension's option to sort by likes, comments with only a few hundreds of likes are shown at the top, instead of the comments with 1000s of likes. Even with either option selected for "Extended Search", the extension doesn't seem to sort the comments with 1000s of likes. I think it's because the extension doesn't recognize 'k' as representing 1000?

Again, the extension so far works great, this is just a minor issue I've noticed.

Dr. House · Answer 70 · Sun Jun 09 2024 07:06:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

ok, it seems I've been confused about a few things:

earlier, I saw people talking about the 'YCS .xpi Firefox version', I believed a Chrome version didn't exist because I distinctly remember someone asking about it and the response was like "no Chrome for now, only Firefox"
I had thought the 'YCS-cont source code' was for Firefox, cuz while looking at the Releases page, it shows 'firefox-1.2.2.xpi' and 'source code'- I only ever use github Source Code for code development, I think if there were also a 'chrome-1.2.2.zip', it might be more intuitive for users
I had wanted GPT to convert YCS Firefox to Chrome for these reasons, but the github source code is now working perfect, kudos to @pc035860

on a sidenote, something I noticed while looking at the source code was that the original author, Eugene Gubar, has obfuscated the use of his YouTube API key. It's easy enough to plainly see it in the Developer Tools 'Network' panel, but in the long run I'm concerned Eugene may disable his key if he's charged significant money for API usage. So, if it all possible, I'd like to know if there might potentially be a way to enter our own YouTube API key for YCS.

Chih-Hsuan Fan · Answer 71 · Mon Jun 10 2024 17:48:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

earlier, I saw people talking about the 'YCS .xpi Firefox version', I believed a Chrome version didn't exist because I distinctly remember someone asking about it and the response was like "no Chrome for now, only Firefox"

In the latest release, 1.2.3, I've packaged a .crx file for Chrome users.

on a sidenote, something I noticed while looking at the source code was that the original author, Eugene Gubar, has obfuscated the use of his YouTube API key. It's easy enough to plainly see it in the Developer Tools 'Network' panel, but in the long run I'm concerned Eugene may disable his key if he's charged significant money for API usage. So, if it all possible, I'd like to know if there might potentially be a way to enter our own YouTube API key for YCS.

The original extension uses the so-called "innertube" API, a private API utilized by the YouTube website that doesn't require an API key from Google Cloud.

Pros:

No billing issues with Google Cloud API key
Supports chat replay
Supports transcript

Cons:

The innertube API is subject to change without any prior notification

In the long term, allowing users to add a custom API key could be a more stable option for fetching comments. However, the official YouTube data API does not support fetching chat replay and transcript, so we would need to update the extension periodically if YouTube updates the usage of the innertube API.

ThreeStepsNeeded · Answer 72 · Wed Jun 12 2024 03:22:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

you shouldn't use YCS anyway, you are vulnerable to XSS because the developer didn't sanitize the comments so it has always been very dangerous to use anyway.

i believe we should wait for @programmer1o1 's version of YCS

@xNasuni could you elaborate on that please? What does this all mean, and is @pc035860 's version safe from this?

NewsGuyTor · Answer 73 · Wed Jun 12 2024 03:24:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

you shouldn't use YCS anyway, you are vulnerable to XSS because the developer didn't sanitize the comments so it has always been very dangerous to use anyway.

i believe we should wait for @programmer1o1 's version of YCS

@xNasuni could you elaborate on that please? What does this all mean, and is @pc035860 's version safe from this?

Yes, he fixed it: pc035860/YCS-cont#2

ThreeStepsNeeded · Answer 74 · Wed Jun 12 2024 05:32:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks @NewsGuyTor

huachuman · Answer 75 · Mon Jul 01 2024 18:05:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

still not working in chromium browsers. freshly installed from chrome web store

Eugene · Answer 76 · Thu Oct 03 2024 04:03:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hello everyone. YCS extension was made by me for personal use later I just added it to the chrome web store. Later I lost access to the account and I did not have time to work on this extension. I posted the source code. ( https://github.com/sonigy/YCS/tree/ycs_source_code )

At the moment, access is fully restored. If anyone wants to make a fork or add fix here. I can post a community-fix version of the github in the chrome web store. Good luck.

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the statement above and list below may not be correct as the extension has become unresponsive after a day on the same instance. see my latest issue on 04/07/2024 to read more

this means that the extension Youtube Comment Search is not broken, but the versions/releases of chrome after or on 123 are breaking it.

YouTube Comment Search Extensions

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you shouldn't use YCS anyway, you are vulnerable to XSS because the developer didn't sanitize the comments so it has always been very dangerous to use anyway.

you shouldn't use YCS anyway, you are vulnerable to XSS because the developer didn't sanitize the comments so it has always been very dangerous to use anyway.

you shouldn't use YCS anyway, you are vulnerable to XSS because the developer didn't sanitize the comments so it has always been very dangerous to use anyway.

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