The Bulk Pinned Comment Editor scans your recent videos for pinned comments and lets you update them all at once — using find & replace, a template with dynamic variables, or individual edits per video.
How pinned comment detection works
YouTube's API does not expose a direct "is pinned" flag on comments. CommentShark detects pinned comments by checking whether your own channel's comment appears first in the results when comments are sorted by relevance — which is how YouTube surfaces pinned comments.
This heuristic works reliably in most cases, but it is not 100% accurate. If your channel's comment appears at the top for reasons other than pinning (e.g. it's the most-liked), it may be included in the scan. Review the scan results before applying bulk edits.
Updating pinned comments
After scanning, you have three ways to update the detected comments:
- Find & Replace — enter a string to find and a string to replace it with across all pinned comments at once. Useful for updating a link, product name, or date.
- Template — write a new comment body using dynamic variables. The template is applied to all selected videos.
- Individual edits — click into any video's pinned comment and edit it manually before applying.
Template variables
Templates support variables that are replaced with video-specific values when the edit is applied:
- {{video_title}} — replaced with the video's title
- {{channel_name}} — replaced with your channel name
Example: "New video alert! Watch {{video_title}} and drop your questions below 👇" becomes a personalized pinned comment on each video.
Rate limits and plan limits
To prevent accidental mass edits and keep YouTube API usage sustainable, bulk edits are limited to once every 18 hours. You can scan as often as you like.
- Plus — scan up to 100 videos, edit up to 15
- Pro — scan up to 250 videos, edit up to 100
- Premium — scan up to 500 videos, edit up to 200
What this tool cannot do
- It cannot pin comments for you. You must pin a comment manually in YouTube Studio first — this tool only edits comments that are already pinned.
- It cannot create new pinned comments.
- It cannot pin comments on videos where you haven't already pinned one.