How to download only comments and no video nor audio?

[davidcllee]

I've been archiving some channels through various means manually (including youtube-dl and 4k-Downloader), and now I'd like to retroactively grab all comments associated with them.

Namely, the videos and audios already exist on my local hard drives, and I'd like to download all comments of given URLs (preferably an entire channel) without downloading the videos again.

Is this possible (my system is Windows 10)? Maybe it's like making the video and audio option `null' or something (which would mean one might be able to grab not just comments but other non-video-audio stuff as well), but I couldn't figure it out by reading the documentation.

Much appreciated.

Great project. Thanks for maintaining it.

[coletdjnz]

--skip-download should do the trick.

[davidcllee]

Duh, haha, thank you for answering such a stupid question of mine.