Comments

ytstudio comments lists comment threads and moderates them. It is built for the scripted case where the YouTube Studio UI gets in the way: filtering threads, approving or rejecting in bulk, exporting JSON for downstream tooling.

List

ytstudio comments list --video <video-id>
ytstudio comments list --video <video-id> -o json | jq

# Held queue, ordered chronologically
ytstudio comments list --video <video-id> --status held --sort time

--status accepts published, held, or spam (mapped internally to YouTube's published, heldForReview, and likelySpam values). --sort accepts time or relevance; the YouTube API only honours relevance for a single video, so --sort relevance requires --video <id>. Omit --video to list across the channel (time-sorted only).

Approve held comments

ytstudio comments publish <comment-id> [<comment-id> ...]

publish takes one or more comment IDs and transitions each to published.

Reject

ytstudio comments reject <comment-id> [<comment-id> ...]
ytstudio comments reject <comment-id> --ban     # also ban the author

reject hides the comment from public view. Pass --ban to also ban the author from the channel.

Reply

ytstudio comments reply <comment-id> --text "Thanks for watching!"

reply posts a public reply to a comment and prints the new reply id. Replies are flat on YouTube: <comment-id> must be a top-level comment id (the id shown by comments list), not the id of another reply. Passing a reply id (or an otherwise invalid id) returns a clear error. Like publish and reject, reply executes immediately.

Quota

comments.setModerationStatus and comments.insert (reply) each cost about 50 quota units per call. For larger moderation runs, see API quota.