What are Spam Comments?
Spam comments are a comment that doesn’t have any real relevance to your post (Blog or YouTube). It can be anything from an advertisement to some random text saying “I really liked the article” or investment. These comments are mostly used by those who want to get backlinks for their websites or other services. Mostly these comments are generated by bots but people also type them themselves too. Why I am getting so many spam comments on my website? As your website/blog or YouTube channel grows, there would be more and more people visiting your site or channel. Many of them are bots and most of these bots are spammers. They post spam comments to promote their websites or other services.
How to Remove or Block YouTube Spam Comments?
Remove: it is a feature that is around on YouTube for quite some time. When you click on more options and remove, it is only going to remove that comment. Hide user from channel: Hide user from the channel is a very handy tool which is recently added to YouTube. If you see a user is only commenting spam comments on your videos, hiding the user from your channel will hide every comment of that user.
Report a Spam Comment
Hold Spam Comments for Review
It is not just me but every big tech YouTuber like Linux Tech Tips, and MKBHD that has used this tool, whereas YouTube’s own algorithm has seemed to be failed. ThioJoe has created the YouTube Spammer Purge that you can use to delete the spam comments and report several spammers to YouTube at once. The YouTube Spammer Purge is available on GitHub, and thanks to the contributions of the YouTubers, this tool has improved a lot. The automatic filters are located under the settings> community> Automatic Filters. Overall the Automatic filters section is divided into the below sections.
Moderators: Overall these users can modify, delete or approve comments on your videos. Approved users: These are the users that you have approved, their comments won’t remain for review on the comments and during live chat. Hidden users: Users that are commenting a lot of Spam comments, and you have to select hide a user from this channel will appear. Blocked words: Before I said that each channel has different types of spam comments. Suppose Linux Tech Tips faces crypto spam comments. You can type words that are often used by the spammers on your YouTube videos to block. Block Links: Obviously spammers are pasting links in their comments and live chat, you can block links.
How to Report or Delete Spam comments using YouTube Spammer Purge?
In any case, let’s begin the process of How to use the YouTube Spammer Purge.
Step #1. Setup a Google API
Step #1. You have to visit GitHub and get the tool. Step #2. For the second step, we have to set up an API Key on Google, to set up that follows the below steps. Click on the Select a Project. Then select New Project. Name your project, you can name anything, then click on the create at the bottom. Please be sure that the project is active, then from the homepage click on the APIs and Services> Library. Locate the YouTube Data API v3 or simply search for it. Enable this API. After enabling the YouTube Data API, create credentials for it, so click on the create credentials. On the Credential type page, make sure that the YouTube Data API v3 is selected> after that select user data and click next. Now you are on the “Oauth Consent Scree” page, you have to insert the required information and move on. Also under the Developer contact information, enter an email address too. Click on the Add/Remove Scopes. Then locate the “/auth/youtube.force-ssl” After that click on update and save the changes. Under the OAuth Client ID, select Desktop App and continue. Now you have your client ID, download it right away. After downloading your credential in the form of .json, rename it to client_secrets.json Finally, please add yourself as a test user for the API that you just created. To add yourself, from the homepage of the Google Cloud Platform click on the API and Services> Select the OAuth consent screen. Then on the next page, under the test users click on the Add user and add yourself.
Step #2. Report Several Spam Comments at Once
Step #1. Launch the YTSpammerPurge.2.16.9, then it will open a browser where you have to log in with your Gmail account. If you face a 403 Access_Denied error, it means you have not added the user. Note: Make Sure that you have an active YouTube Channel. Step #2. Once you are logged into the YouTube Spammer Purge with your account, you have to option to check your own YouTube videos for spam or check other YouTube videos. Basically, the scan options will do the job. Step #3. Let’s go and scan a specific video, In my case, I will scan this video of MrwhosetheBoss. Type 1 and press enter> then paste the URL of the video. Step #3. Then the application will detect if your video is your own or it is someone else’s video. For confirmation, the YouTube spammer purge is asking if this video is correct, you have to type Y and let it scan. Step #4. Choose How to identify the spammer’s window will be next, for now, press 1. You can experiment with the other options. Step #5. Next, the Auto Smart Mode explains how it works, read it and press enter. Step #6. Now, wait for the comments to be checked by the YouTube Spammer Purge. Now have a look at the result of scanning the Comments. Step #7. Save a log file if you want but I will not save it, you can also view the comments to check but my purpose is only to guide you on How you can report all the comments. To Report all the comments, type Report and press enter.
Conclusion:
If you are a YouTuber you have to get rid of the Spam comments under your videos. You can do it by manually checking all the comments or creating a team just to check the comments on your videos. However this way, it costs a lot and time consuming too. At the same time, you can use YouTube’s official methods to Delete YouTube Spam Comments, however, it is not very effective. This is the place where the open-source community comes, a Tool on GitHub is available that can delete spam comments instantly. And Also you can scan other people’s videos and report the spam comments. I hope this article has been helpful to Delete YouTube Spam Comments.
