title: How to obtain a feed of comments entered through the 'chat' box during a YouTube live broadcast?
body: <p>The YouTube API enables users to obtain a comments feed, e.g. via <code>https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/VIDEO_ID/comments?orderby=published</code>.</p>
  
  <p>However, when I try to do just that with the video ID of a live stream, the result is always empty, no matter how many comments have been submitted. The only difference between a live video and any other video (or recording of a live stream) is that the 'comments' section is replaced with a 'chat' box, whose comments seem not to be available via the API.</p>
  
  <p>When the stream is stopped, all comments submitted through the chat box 'disappear' entirely and can no longer be accessed. However, all comments submitted after the live broadcast has been archived (i.e. the recording has been made available) show up in the comments feed.</p>
  
  <p>For a real-time application I need to access the 'chat' comments while the broadcast is still live, to retrieve user-submitted questions.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to do this?</p>