Does it work on any video?

Any public video with comments enabled.

What does scoring measure?

Sentiment (positive, neutral, negative), emotions, toxicity and language, per comment.

Pro and API plans

Sentiment Analysis

Know what an audience actually thinks: every comment on a video or a batch of ten, scored and exportable.

Analyse a video's comments See pricing and plans

Published 24 September 2026 · Reviewed 24 September 2026

Who it is for

Marketers and brand managers
Social media analysts
Market researchers
Creators

The problem

Reading a thousand comments is not research, and the YouTube comment panel shows a sorted slice of them with no export.

How GistCite solves it

Collect comments and replies with likes, reply counts, authors, timestamps and pinned, edited and hearted flags, for one video or up to ten. Score them with AI for sentiment, emotions, toxicity and language, then export CSV, Excel or JSON.

Capabilities

Complete collection

Every comment and reply with its metadata.

Benefit: Analyse the whole audience, not the top 20.

Collect the comments on a video

AI scoring

Sentiment, emotions, toxicity and language per comment.

Benefit: Quantify reception and find the outliers.

Score comments for sentiment

Export

CSV, Excel, JSON or a standalone HTML table.

Benefit: Continue in your own spreadsheet, notebook or web page.

Export comment data to Excel

Benefits

Collection uses the YouTube Data API when configured, with a fallback fetcher otherwise.
Priced per hundred comments, shown before you run it.

How it works

Step 1
Paste a link
One video, or up to ten.
Step 2
Collect and score
Comments first; AI scoring as a second, optional step.
Step 3
Export
CSV, XLSX, JSON or HTML table.

Integrations and formats

YouTube Data API
Claude by Anthropic for scoring
CSV / XLSX / JSON / HTML export
REST API

Security and data handling

Read the full picture on the security and compliance page.

Only public comment data is collected; nothing is posted or modified.
Uploads are processed in memory and never written to disk or object storage; only the extracted text is kept.
Every extraction endpoint is rate-limited per IP; signed-in use is metered against the plan's monthly quota.
TLS in transit; passwords bcrypt-hashed; API keys stored only as SHA-256 digests.

Evidence

The exported fields and scoring dimensions are documented in the tool's help panel. Check this

Pricing

Plans: Pro and API
Cost per action: 1 unit per 100 comments collected; 10 units per 100 comments scored with AI.
How it is priced: Included in Pro and API plans.

Compare the Free, Pro and API plans