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One of the major concerns is spam comments, and it is difficult to identify all of the spammy YouTube comments. YouTube does have such functionality, but it doesn’t seem to be as functional, so ThioJoe comes to the rescue and builds YT Spammer Purge.

Today in this article, we will be sharing how you can filter and search for spammer comments on someone else’s YouTube channel or your own YouTube channel. Also, how to delete all those YouTube comments or report them? Follow the following instructions mentioned down below.

About YouTube Spammer Purge

It is a feature-rich utility tool that allows content creators to automatically find spammers and claims to have a 0% false positive rate. Apart from content creators, viewers can also scan through anyone’s channels and report them.

Spam comments have always been a headache for content creators and for viewers too. Sometimes they try fishy things like posting random things, commenting multiple times, something bad, and using them to reply to every comment on the video.

How to Install and Use YouTube Spammer Purge

It is quite a straightforward method to perform. For this, check out the following instructions mentioned down below.

Setting up Google Cloud Project for YT Spammer Purge

For this, you need an Oauth2 credential to access the scanning and deletion functions via YouTube’s Data API.

  • Open Console.cloud.google.com, and if you have access to the page for the first time, it will ask you to set up your country and agree with the terms of service. (Ensure that you are logged in with your channel account.)
  • Click on the Select Project, which appears on the top-blue bar next to Google Cloud Platform.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Next, click on “New Project.”
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Then enter the project name and then click on “Create.”
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Once your project has been successfully created, you can now open the project.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Now you need to enable the YouTube API for the YT Spammer Page.
  • For this, click on the “Burger” menu that appears in the upper-left corner and then head over to the APIs & Services.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Then, choose Library and from there, search or scroll to the YouTube Section to find “YouTube Data API v3.0.”
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Click on it, and then enable it.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • It will open the page, or to re-open the page, go to APIs & Service, and then to Dashboard.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Now, on that screen, you have all your APIs at the bottom. You may find the YouTube Data API v3
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • From there, create credentials by clicking on the “Create Credentials” button in the upper-right corner of the screen.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Now, name it accordingly. It doesn’t matter. Choose which YouTube Data API v3 you want to use from the drop-down menu, Check the checkbox for the User Data and then click Next.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • After that, in the App Name field, enter the app name and then enter Support Email and finally your email address.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Next, in Scopes, click on Add or Remove Scopes. Go to the next 10 rows until you see the YouTube Data AP V3 (./auth/youtube.force-ssl)., and check the checkbox for the same.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Scroll down and then click Update. Next, it will appear under Sensitive Scope. Next, go to Application
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Type and choose Desktop App. Finish by giving it a name.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • That’s it. Download the Client Secret key. What we need is but you need to rename it as client_secrets.json. (Changing and saving the same is important or else you encounter this problem.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge)
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Move that file to where you have saved your YouTube Spammer Purge package.
  • That’s it!

NOTE: It’s sensitive data, so don’t share your Client ID and Client Secret.

Add your account as a test user to login.

If you attempt to login with the same account that you are using, then it will show you an error. To resolve this, you need to add your account as a test user.

  • Navigate to the Google Cloud Platform.
  • Go to the Burger menu, and from there, go to APIs & Services.
  • Head over to the Oauth Consent screen.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • And then under Test User, add your Google account (Gmail). (or else you encounter this issue
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge)
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Click Save. That’s it!

Note: Don’t publish the app.

How to get to YT Spammer Purge

How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge

  • Once you finish setting up your YouTube Data API, you just need to open YT Spammer Purge.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Next, it will pop-up a login page in your default browser.
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Simply sign-in to your account. It will show
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • Google hasn’t verified the app. Simply continue and grant permission by clicking “Allow.”
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge
  • And it will generate a login token. pickily on the same YTSpammer purge page. That’s it!
    How to check and delete YouTube Spammer Comments in bulk - YT Spammer Purge

How to Use YouTube Spammer Removal

  • Open the YTSpammer Purge, and then it will show you your account with a channel ID.
  • Enter Y to continue with the user, and then choose the scanning option you want to continue with.
  • Enter the number. For specific videos, enter the video link; for recent videos, enter the number of videos.
  • Next, choose the Auto Smart Mode, or another based on your preference.
  • And it will start scanning and also show the spam comment.
  • Enter “Y,” for Yes, or “N” for No, to save the log file. Or you can report them, exclude them, or report them by typing “REPORT” and continuing.
  • If you type DELETE for Delete Commend, and if you deleted something and want to restore it, run restorethese.rtf.
  • That’s it!

Note: Google only allows 10,000 report/delete quotes per day.

YouTube Comment Section starting to become toxic, and creating a safe community on which to build. It’s quite amazing that Google should add identical filtering to YouTube.

Hopefully, this article will remain helpful for you and you will be able to successfully setup and use YouTube Spammer Purge. Thanks for being with us. We would like to get your valuable opinions and feedback. If there is any query, please share it with us. In the comment section down below Keep an eye out for future updates on the subject.

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