A YouTube comment picker draws the winner of a YouTube giveaway among the people who commented on a video. This one does not connect to YouTube or to your Google account: you copy the comments from the video page and paste them, and the draw runs in your browser. It keeps one entry per channel, keeps only the comments containing a required word or enough @mentions, excludes the channels you name, and draws one or several winners at random.
How do you use the YouTube comment picker?
- Copy the comments from the comments section of your video on youtube.com, on a computer: scroll until every comment has loaded, select the section and copy it. Paste it in the field. The picker reads
@user: comment,@user comment, or the channel handle on one line and the comment on the next. - Clean the paste if needed. A copy from YouTube can carry lines that are neither a handle nor a comment, such as "3 days ago" or "Reply". Delete them, then check the counter under the field: "N comments pasted, M eligible" should match what YouTube shows.
- Set the rules. "One entry per account" is on by default. Add a required word, a minimum number of @mentions, and the channels that cannot win, starting with your own.
- Choose the number of winners and draw. Each winner is shown with their handle and their comment. Copy the result, or start again.
Why does the picker not read the video itself?
Because it works on text you paste, and nothing else. It never asks for a Google login, never sees your channel, and never uploads what you paste. The trade-off is that the copy is your responsibility: a video with 2,000 comments needs a long scroll before everything is loaded, and replies to a comment are only copied if you expanded them. Compare the counter with the comment count under the video before drawing.
The draw is the same as every free draw on this site: a Fisher–Yates shuffle fed by crypto.getRandomValues, the browser's cryptographic generator. Every eligible comment has the same chance, and winners are distinct channels.
Which comments are eligible?
The rules apply together, and the counter updates as you change them:
- One entry per account keeps the first comment of each channel. Someone who commented 12 times has one chance, like everyone else.
- Required word keeps the comments that contain it, whatever the capitalization.
- Minimum @mentions keeps the comments tagging at least that many accounts.
- Excluded accounts removes the handles you list, with or without their @.
A comment that fits none of the formats is kept as a comment by itself, with its text as its author, so an unclean paste can add phantom entries. That is what step 2 is for.
Giveaway on Instagram or Facebook as well?
There the copy step disappears. The Lukky app is approved by Meta and connects through the official Instagram and Facebook authorization, never a password. It reads the comments itself, removes duplicates and excluded accounts, draws at random and issues a public certificate your entrants can check; more than 2.5 million draws have been run with it. For a TikTok video, the TikTok comment picker works exactly like this page, and the winner announcement generator writes the post that closes the giveaway.
FAQ
- Do I need to log in with Google?
- No. The picker never connects to YouTube. You copy the comments from the video page and paste them; the draw runs in your browser and nothing leaves it.
- How do I copy all the comments of a YouTube video?
- On a computer, open the video, scroll the comments section until it stops loading more, expand the replies you want to include, then select the whole section and copy it. Delete the lines that are not handles or comments before drawing.
- Does the picker count replies?
- Only the ones you copied. YouTube hides replies behind a "replies" link; expand them before copying if replies count as entries.
- Can a channel win twice?
- No. "One entry per account" keeps one comment per handle, and winners are drawn without replacement, so each winner is a different channel.
- Can my entrants verify the draw?
- Not with this tool: it cannot prove what was pasted. For a public certificate, run the giveaway on Instagram or Facebook and draw with the Lukky app.
Running an Instagram or Facebook giveaway?
Lukky draws the winner from the comments and issues a certificate your entrants can verify. Free on iOS and Android.
Updated on August 28, 2026