Request to search by top level comments only and sort by like count

[fugitivealien]

I'd like to sort search term results by likes, as well as a top level comment only search. Clicking the like sort before or after results just reloads all comments again and by like count.

[knoajp]

I made a user script for my preference to order search results by likes count.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         YouTube YCS Sort By Likes
// @description  description
// @version      1
// @match        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=*
// @run-at       document-idle
// ==/UserScript==

(function(){
  console.log('YouTube YCS Sort By Likes');

  let timer = setInterval(function(){
    const input = document.querySelector('#ycs-input-search');
    const result = document.querySelector('#ycs-search-result');
    if(input === null) return;
    else clearInterval(timer);
    input.addEventListener('keydown', e => {
      if(e.isComposing) return;
      if(e.key === 'Enter'){
        let observer = observe(result, records => {
          observer.disconnect(); // maybe this line should be removed for when it has paginations.
          Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.ycs-icon-like + .ycs-like-count'))
          .sort((a, b) => parseInt(a.textContent) - parseInt(b.textContent))
          .forEach(e => document.querySelector('#ycs_wrap_comments').prepend(e.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode));
        });
      }
    });

    const observe = function(element, callback, options = {childList: true, subtree: false, characterData: false, attributes: false, attributeFilter: undefined}){
      let observer = new MutationObserver(callback.bind(element));
      observer.observe(element, options);
      return observer;
    };
  }, 1000);
})();

[NicPalacio]

Hi @NicPalacio . That's another i18n issue for sorting by likes count. (The [K] issue is: #16)

In your case, it may be caused by the difference of comma[,] and period[.]. YCS takes care of only 123.4K format, not 123,4K as most Europeans use.
@knoajp
Thank you for the answer, in my case it has to do with the script in Tampemonkey, the default Like sort of the extension works perfect.

[Letssharearow]

1.) it only takes into account the first 200 comments that are currently visible, rather than all of them, to access the additional comments, I need to click 'show more comments' multiple times before using the 'sort by likes' button

I never thought of this. This is a real issue. YCS doesn't load all the comments and I dont think I can modify this. All I can think of is spam-clicking the load more button with a script. I could create another script for that. Like I also want alll the comments and not just random 200 ones.
Something like "Always load All comments from YCS" that spams click the load button and when everything is loaded, it will notify you in some way maybe.

2.) Another thing that happens sometimes when opening a video, thee Sort by liked button does not appear and I have to refresh the page, I think it has more to do with the Tamper Monkey extension but Im not sure.

This should be fixed. This bug occured, because when you click on another video the page isn't loaded again, which means the script doesnt run. I fixed it by adding the sort button when scrolling, so every time you want to scroll to the comments it should appear. Can you confirm that this is also fixed for you? :)

[NicPalacio]

@Letssharearow Thank you, your answers are really helpful. For the default 200 comments I think just do it manually is not that big of a deal but do you think there is a way that the TaperMonkey script considers all the comments loaded the same way the default Like button works ? (it orders all the comments by likes, not only the 200 visible)

And another one weird thing I notice yesterday was that even with your updated script to consider de K notation, sometimes both the default Like button that orders all comments by like, and the 'Sort by Likes' button created with TamperMonkey don't perfectly order the comments, take a look at the image below, I order all comments by like and in the result, 2.7k is listed sometimes properly at the top but other times it is in the middle of lower values, and there is a 2,8k that should be the first one but it is way down. Do you have an idea why this might happen? The original video is if you want to test if the same thing happens to you.

[Letssharearow]

@NicPalacio
good catch. From my debug I can see that the numbers behind the comma or dot (in my case) are not regarded in the sorting
so 2,5 K and 2,7 K are both 2 000 so they will just appear in random order. parseInt(2,2 K) will take the first numbers until a non-numeric character I assume. And Im just realizing, why would I use parsteInt on a float value, oops

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/467013-youtube-ycs-sort-by-likes updated

[Letssharearow]

@NicPalacio
I have created the "loadAllScript" which spam clicks the loadMore button. Works pretty well for me. Let me know if it works for you too :D
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/467366-youtube-ycs-load-all-items

[NicPalacio]

Hi again friend @Letssharearow , sorry for not reaching out last week, I was a little busy. Thanks for your fix !. However, I updated the script to the newer version and while I've noticed it improved the sorting, there is still some cases where it doesn't properly organizes the ones with decimals, like the case of the image, do you have any other idea why? in my case I visualize commas for decimals as well,not dots.

Link Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5zGuFPxW88 searching for comment with "Twitch"

And as for the spam clicker it works perfectly, it automatically charges all comments so the Load more button not even appear jjejej thanks, you rock 👌 .

[NicPalacio]

@Letssharearow, thank you! Yeah, I don't code, but I work with data, and I'm familiar with git and its use. However, I don't have any projects. I came here because I wanted to talk to the extension developer about the option to sort comments by likes with timestamps and I noticed that in the Github repository the community can ask questions, so I thought I could get help here, and I was right! I found your answer, and it was exactly what I needed. I appreciate you, man.

Thank you for your help all along! Let me now if you develop other tools for Youtube, you seee pretty good at it ,for now I won't bother you anymore, haha. 😄 Have a nice week.

[Letssharearow]

@NicPalacio you might be interested in this here https://hadzy.com/ it's good for many comments and you can search and sort as well
Im flattered that you think that I am goot at it, because I think many would disagree. I like to be functional not very perfectional. I really liked the input. As far as I can tell these changes that you requested have improved my life as well.
There are more things that I have done, but if you're looking for good youtube stuff, I would recommend looking into Stylus and AdashimaaTube. It let's you customize youtube.
I use it to hide shorts, because I dont want to watch shorts
"Hide youtube watched videos" is also a nice chrome extension that removes watched videos for example from your sub-page

[NicPalacio]

@Letssharearow
Great tools buddy! I am trying them out.

It's true that your code might not be perfect, but it works wonders. As a frequent YouTube viewer, it is always very helpful to analyze comments in a more insightful way. This tool you created has been really useful for me. I use it all the time, and it's really handy for finding the most interesting parts of the video and understanding what other people are thinking. It saves me a lot of time and greatly enhances my experience of consuming and enjoying the content.

I am curious ,do you work with software or any code-related field?

[Letssharearow]

@NicPalacio thank you. I'd like to continue the convo, but I think GitHub is the wrong place. You can email my public email adress a telegram, discord, what's app, insta or snapchat account if you want to text :)

[fugitivealien]

Now that the extension broke due to Youtube API changes, the project got forked over to a new one called "YCS Continued" think we could discuss how to get the sort by likes working over there? Seems I can't hack my way out of a paper bag trying to get it working. Here's the fork link: https://github.com/pc035860/YCS-cont