How do I prove a giveaway draw was fair?

Publish the draw seed and the entrant list with your winner announcement, so anyone can repeat the same draw and get the same result. A draw that reproduces identically is far more convincing than an assurance that the process was random.

How many comments can be pulled at once?

Up to 500 per video, and the tool tells you when the list was cut at that limit. The cap exists to protect the service's daily quota rather than because of any technical limit.

Can it pull comments from Instagram or TikTok?

No — this works for YouTube only. Other platforms do not offer public comment access without account authorisation, so any tool claiming otherwise requires you to sign in to your account.

Are entrants' comments stored?

Comments are cached briefly so that repeated pulls on the same video do not burn quota. Nothing is tied to you, and nothing is shared with anyone else.

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YouTube Comment Picker

Paste your giveaway video's URL, set the entry rules, then draw a winner you can prove.

Video URL or ID

Comments to pull Winners Must contain word (optional)

One entry per person Must tag someone (@)

DRAW SEED

This seed decides the draw. Save it and publish it with your announcement: anyone who enters the same seed and the same entrant list gets the same winner.

What this is

A comment picker pulls the comments from a public video, filters them against the entry rules you set, then draws a winner at random from what remains. The part that decides everything is not the randomness but the proof: a draw nobody can re-check will always be doubted by part of your audience. This tool publishes the draw seed alongside the result, so anyone entering the same seed and the same entrant list arrives at exactly the same winner.

How it works

The one-entry-per-person rule settles the complaint that most often follows a giveaway. Without it, someone who comments fifty times has fifty times the chance, and your audience will notice. With it, only each person's first comment counts.

The draw seed is a random string that fully determines the outcome. Publish it in your announcement alongside the entrant list, and anyone can repeat the draw to confirm the same result. That is the difference between saying a draw was fair and showing that it was.

The number of comments pulled is capped, and the cap is stated when it is reached. A video with hundreds of thousands of comments would exhaust the daily quota if pulled whole, so the tool takes the most relevant comments up to your chosen limit and tells you the list was truncated — rather than quietly drawing from partial data.

How to use it

Paste the giveaway video URL Comments are pulled from any public video that has them enabled.
Set the entry rules A required word, a tag requirement, and one entry per person.
Draw, then publish the seed Show the draw seed alongside your winner announcement.

Common questions

How do I prove a giveaway draw was fair?: Publish the draw seed and the entrant list with your winner announcement, so anyone can repeat the same draw and get the same result. A draw that reproduces identically is far more convincing than an assurance that the process was random.
How many comments can be pulled at once?: Up to 500 per video, and the tool tells you when the list was cut at that limit. The cap exists to protect the service's daily quota rather than because of any technical limit.
Can it pull comments from Instagram or TikTok?: No — this works for YouTube only. Other platforms do not offer public comment access without account authorisation, so any tool claiming otherwise requires you to sign in to your account.
Are entrants' comments stored?: Comments are cached briefly so that repeated pulls on the same video do not burn quota. Nothing is tied to you, and nothing is shared with anyone else.

Notes

YouTube only. Instagram and TikTok comments are not available without account authorisation.
The entrant list is capped at the limit you choose, and truncation is always stated.