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It's important that during these unprecedented times of censorship that we all know how to use youtube-dl

Now I do agree wholeheartedly, but the First Rule of youtube-dl is: You Do Not talk about youtube-dl.

How to download the comments for video? Or the "live chat" on some videos?

Honest question - what longtime value is there to youtube comments? The way these are structured seems to inherently make them useless.

If they are downloaded, they can be indexed by various parameters.