YouTube Comment Picker
Pick giveaway winners, filter comments by keyword, and export results — using your own YouTube Data API key. Your key stays in your browser and is never sent to our servers.
How to get a free YouTube Data API key
- 1. Go to the Google Cloud Console and create a new project (or pick an existing one).
- 2. Open "APIs & Services" → "Library", search for "YouTube Data API v3", and click Enable.
- 3. Go to "APIs & Services" → "Credentials" → "Create Credentials" → "API key".
- 4. (Recommended) Click "Restrict key" and limit it to the YouTube Data API v3, so the key can't be used for other Google APIs if it leaks.
- 5. Copy the key and paste it below.
Free quota: 10,000 units/day, resets daily. Fetching comments costs ~1 unit per request, so this comfortably covers personal and small-channel use at no cost.
Saved with your other platform keys — manage it in Settings.
Common questions
Why does this need my own API key instead of just working?
Fetching comments requires calling YouTube's own Data API, which Google gates behind a per-project key and quota. Using your own key means your usage counts against your own free daily quota rather than a shared one this site would otherwise have to ration across every visitor.
Does picking a winner remove or verify anything about them?
No — this only reads public comment text and author names as returned by YouTube's API. Confirming a winner actually follows your giveaway's rules (subscribed, followed elsewhere, etc.) is still a manual step you'd need to do yourself.
What happens to my API key and the comments after I leave the page?
The key is saved in your browser's own storage so you don't have to paste it in every time, and fetched comments only ever exist in memory for that session — nothing is sent to or stored on a server.