YouTube comment picker

Running a giveaway is easy until it is time to pick. Scrolling a thousand comments and stopping on one looks arbitrary, and viewers treat it that way. This reads the comments on any public video, applies whatever entry rules you set, and pulls names at random.

The part worth caring about is the seed. Every draw returns a short code that produced it, and pasting that code back in with the same video reproduces the same winners exactly. Publish it under your announcement and anyone who doubts you can check it themselves. Being able to prove a draw costs you nothing and settles the argument before it starts.

Entry rules cover the usual arguments before they start. One entry per person stops someone farming the odds by commenting fifty times. A required keyword lets you set a real entry condition, so a passing comment does not count as an entry. A minimum length filters out the people who only typed the word first. And where a video has more comments than the tool reads, the result tells you the size of the pool it actually drew from, so you can say so out loud.