YCS - YouTube Comment Search (Continued) von Pymaster

❗️ This extension is a continuation of the original YouTube Comment Search (YCS) extension ❗️
Original YCS extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ycs/

❗️ What's new / fixed in this version ❗️
▸ Fixed comment and video transcript loading issues that stopped working around late March 2024.
 Related issue: https://github.com/sonigy/YCS/issues/56
▸ Fixed reply count sorting
▸ Prevented potential XSS vulnerabilities
▸ Made filter buttons work properly with text search results
▸ Improved cache-loading performance
▸ Fixed video transcript loading (May 2025)
▸ Fixed chat replay loading (October 2025)

For more detailed change log, visit: https://github.com/pc035860/YCS-cont/releases

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Features:
✅ Quick search by timestamp, author, content
✅ Export comments, replies, chat replay, video transcript
✅ Flexible (fuzzy) search
✅ Multilingual search
✅ Search by Emoji
✅ Works in incognito mode
✅ Unlimited load comments
✅ Time stamps - show comments, replies with time stamps
✅ Author - show comments, replies and chat comments from the author
✅ Likes - show comments, replies by number of likes (sort largest to smallest)
✅ Replied - show comments by number of replies (sort largest to smallest)
✅ Members - show comments, replies and chat comments from channel members
✅ Donated - show chat comments from users who have donated
✅ Show random comment
✅ Small size, low use CPU and memory

Instructions:
1. Open video on YouTube
2. Find the YCS extension under the current video and click the button "Load all" or choose to load the categories
3. Write the search query, press Enter or click the button Search

FAQ

1) How to like, reply to a comment?
In the search results, click on the date (like, "2 months ago") of the comment, reply and will open a new window with an active comment or reply under the video, where you can do any action.

2) How do I find all timestamped comments and replies on a video?
Click on the "Time stamps" button under the search bar.

3) How can I find addressed to user's comments, replies?
Write " @ " in the input field.

4) How can I view the contents of the video transcript at a specific minute?
You can write a search query for Trp. Video, in the " mm:ss " format. For example:
" : " - all the text of the video transcript.
" 15: " - all the text in the 15th minute.
And etc.

5) How can I view the comment for a found reply?
Click on the " ▼ " button.

6) How can I see the all replies to the found comment?
In the header of the found comment, you can find the reply icon and the count, to see the replies click on the " + " button.

7) How to use search in YouTube shorts?
Open a YouTube video short. Click badge YCS (right of the address bar) and click on the button Open YT short.

You can use the search engine (YCS), while loading comments, chat, transcript video.