Feature request: Collect all comments from a livestream

[dvingerh]

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Describe your issue

Is it possible to implement a feature that collects all comments from a livestream? Maybe a config option like collectallcomments=1 which will override the other comment settings and save all comments from a livestream to a .txt file.

[taengstagram]

What is the point of this? It is possible but I'm not interested to do so.

• For popular/celebrity streams, this can be excessive.
• Comments currently collected are converted into an accompanying .srt file that can be viewed in most common video players. This becomes meaningless if there are too many comments.

[dvingerh]

What is the point of this?

When for example the user who hosts the livestream answers questions from comments it would be nice to know what people commented.

[taengstagram]

If the stream is popular, the comments saved are still going to be difficult to view with a conventional player. IG gets around this by presenting comments in what is basically a vertically scrolling ticker.

I won't implement this but you're free to fork and customise this for your use case. It shouldn't​ require major changes so good luck!

[NabiKAZ]

@taengstagram @notcammy

The current implementation about convert specific comments to a SRT file maybe was useful.

But I agree with notcammy's point more.

Filter comments by specific users not be useful, We need have more or all user's comments, If there is problem with SRT, no problem, can store it by timestamp in a JSON file. This can be new optional feature.