# Can ChatGPT read YouTube comments?

No. In our test on November 15, 2026, ChatGPT could not read the comments under a public YouTube video, twice in a row. We sent the same public YouTube post twice and asked for the 3 most common complaints with one quoted comment each. It did not invent any comments: both times it refused and asked for a paste. It also pointed us to copy them by hand, which is the work we wanted done.

Tested 2026-11-15. Post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO3XoF3JI28

## What ChatGPT said

- “I tried to open this YouTube video, but scraping the comment section is currently restricted, so I haven't got the actual comments.”
- “Page reading is restricted and a search did not find the video's comments.” It asked us to copy the comments over.

## What the post actually has

- @freeav418 (237 likes): 我倒覺得走下坡還好，至少他賺到錢啦，總比沒爆款過好吧?
- @林書漢-f5x (205 likes): 還好啦，東西真的好用，用戶體驗才是真正底蘊，至於買來收藏該怪的是蠢到拿杯子當收藏的人
- @jason-gp8ji (144 likes): 他們家保溫杯真的超好用 高一時候被班上小混混找麻煩 我保溫杯敲他頭 結果他頭破了 我杯子一個凹痕都沒有

38 comments read from this video (the sample's search was in English, the video is in Chinese); these are the 3 most liked.

## Why it fails

ChatGPT said page reading was restricted and search did not turn up the comments. We did not test why; the result is what matters.

## What Buzzsift does instead

Our connector reads YouTube comments through a data provider and returns them with likes, date and a link.

find_mentions: 100 points a search, up to 150 posts and comments. A full report: $9.99. Set up: https://sociallisteningai.com/claude-chatgpt-connector/

## Questions

**Can ChatGPT read YouTube comments?** No. In our test on November 15, 2026, ChatGPT could not read the comments under a public YouTube video, twice in a row. Both answers are quoted on this page.
**How did you test it?** On 2026-11-15 we opened a new ChatGPT chat twice and sent the same request for a public YouTube post: "Read the comments under this post and list the 3 most common complaints, quoting one comment for each." (in Chinese; quotes here are translated). The post is the one in the Stanley sample report on this site.
**Can I still analyze YouTube comments with ChatGPT?** Yes, if the comments reach it as text. Paste them in, or connect Buzzsift to ChatGPT or Claude so the assistant fetches them itself (100 points a search, $1; a new account gets 100 points).
**Will this change?** It may. The test is dated 2026-11-15; chatbots and platforms change their access often, and we will rerun it.