Export comments with a click
An easy way to download all the comments from a social media post
Hi reporters! I don’t usually share tools where the name of the tool is what it does (like download-youtube-videos.com) because, quite frankly, they don’t tend to stay stable for very long.
But! ExportComments.com works and it does something that is annoyingly hard to do - download comments from a Facebook, Twitter or other social media post.
It is, of course, doable. But for some reason this seemingly simple task can be quite complicated (check out Lam Thuy Vo’s personal code here). ExportComments.com lets you export all the comments as an Excel file, including the commenters’ profile names and user IDs. In some cases you can even download images or set a date range.
It only works on public posts (or your own private posts), and unfortunately it won’t pull nested comments unless you have a premium plan. ExportComments.com may not stay up forever, but it’s useful right now.
I got it from Mike Reilley’s excellent Journalist’s Toolbox website/newsletter, which you should check out. Keep this one in your pocket, reporters!
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I would love this but it doesn't work for the platform Medium. Often there is excellent information in the comments of an article. But for how Medium has coded their pages, there is no way to print out the comments unless you do a copy/paste one by one.