😤 [2.17] MAJOR New Feature: Remote filter Update Without Needing Update

• The program will now automatically go and check the GitHub repo to see if there is a new version of filter_variables.py
• A full program update is no longer required to update the filters, which will make it much easier to make small and/or faster filter improvements

🎉 [2.17] New Features:

• Multi-Variable Spam Checking

  • The program now has new filtering functions that can check more complex spam patterns

• New Fuzzy Duplicate Detection

  • The program now uses the "RapidFuzz" module which can be many times faster than the previous method, meaning duplicate comments will be scanned MUCH faster

• Channel ID Lookup Tool

  • There is a new main menu option for "helpful tools". The only one right now allows you to retrieve the Channel ID for a channel by providing a YouTube video URL for that channel.

📈 [2.17] Other Improvements

• Improved update checking method should allow you to still be notified of the latest beta version, even if there was a stable release of the previous version after it

• Add support for YouTube @ handles

Beta1 → Beta2:

• Fix incorrect config version number that caused repeated incorrect warning about out-of-date config
• Updated filter variables and confusables

Beta2 → Beta3:

• Fixed replies not being checked against spam thread list, which caused many missed spam comments
• Fixed Comment Recovery feature not working
• Fixed validation error in recent video count
• Fix rare UnboundLocalError for VideoID
• Update custom confusables to check for more look-alike characters
• Updated requirements.txt
• Many grammatical corrections

Beta3 → Beta4:

• Fixed program not checking for filter_variables.py file updates when manually selecting to check for updates in main menu
• Fixed bug where the program would download the filter variables file even when the latest version already exists
• Fixed program not catching spam bot thread matches correctly
• Fixed infinite loop when invalid/unavailable video ID is used in videos_to_scan config setting

🟢 Beta4 → Beta6:

• Adds support for searching channels by YouTube handle
• Improves accuracy of searching for a channel using custom URL
• Added new main menu option for "helpful tools". The only one right now allows you to retrieve the Channel ID for a channel by providing a YouTube video URL for that channel.

😤 [2.17] MAJOR New Feature: Remote filter Update Without Needing Update

• The program will now automatically go and check the GitHub repo to see if there is a new version of filter_variables.py
• A full program update is no longer required to update the filters, which will make it much easier to make small and/or faster filter improvements

🎉 [2.17] New Features:

• Multi-Variable Spam Checking

  • The program now has new filtering functions that can check more complex spam patterns

• New Fuzzy Duplicate Detection

  • The program now uses the "RapidFuzz" module which can be many times faster than the previous method, meaning duplicate comments will be scanned MUCH faster

📈 [2.17] Other Improvements

• Improved update checking method should allow you to still be notified of the latest beta version, even if there was a stable release of the previous version after it

Beta1 → Beta2:

• Fix incorrect config version number that caused repeated incorrect warning about out-of-date config
• Updated filter variables and confusables

Beta2 → Beta3:

• Fixed replies not being checked against spam thread list, which caused many missed spam comments
• Fixed Comment Recovery feature not working
• Fixed validation error in recent video count
• Fix rare UnboundLocalError for VideoID
• Update custom confusables to check for more look-alike characters
• Updated requirements.txt
• Many grammatical corrections

🟢 Beta3 → Beta4:

• Fixed program not checking for filter_variables.py file updates when manually selecting to check for updates in main menu
• Fixed bug where the program would download the filter variables file even when the latest version already exists
• Fixed program not catching spam bot thread matches correctly
• Fixed infinite loop when invalid/unavailable video ID is used in videos_to_scan config setting

😤 [2.17] MAJOR New Feature: Remote filter Update Without Needing Update

• The program will now automatically go and check the GitHub repo to see if there is a new version of filter_variables.py
• A full program update is no longer required to update the filters, which will make it much easier to make small and/or faster filter improvements

🎉 [2.17] New Features:

• Multi-Variable Spam Checking

  • The program now has new filtering functions that can check more complex spam patterns

• New Fuzzy Duplicate Detection

  • The program now uses the "RapidFuzz" module which can be many times faster than the previous method, meaning duplicate comments will be scanned MUCH faster

📈 [2.17] Other Improvements

• Improved update checking method should allow you to still be notified of the latest beta version, even if there was a stable release of the previous version after it

Beta1 → Beta2:

• Fix incorrect config version number that caused repeated incorrect warning about out-of-date config
• Updated filter variables and confusables

🟢 Beta2 → Beta3:

• Fixed replies not being checked against spam thread list, which caused many missed spam comments
• Fixed Comment Recovery feature not working
• Fixed validation error in recent video count
• Fix rare UnboundLocalError for VideoID
• Update custom confusables to check for more look-alike characters
• Updated requirements.txt
• Many grammatical corrections

😤 [2.17] MAJOR New Feature: Remote filter Update Without Needing Update

• The program will now automatically go and check the GitHub repo to see if there is a new version of filter_variables.py
• A full program update is no longer required to update the filters, which will make it much easier to make small and/or faster filter improvements

🎉 [2.17] New Features:

• Multi-Variable Spam Checking

  • The program now has new filtering functions that can check more complex spam patterns

• New Fuzzy Duplicate Detection

  • The program now uses the "RapidFuzz" module which can be many times faster than the previous method, meaning duplicate comments will be scanned MUCH faster

📈 [2.17] Other Improvements

• Improved update checking method should allow you to still be notified of the latest beta version, even if there was a stable release of the previous version after it

🟢 Beta1 → Beta2:

• Fix incorrect config version number that caused repeated incorrect warning about out-of-date config
• Updated filter variables and confusables

😤 [2.17] MAJOR New Feature: Remote filter Update Without Needing Update

• The program will now automatically go and check the GitHub repo to see if there is a new version of filter_variables.py
• A full program update is no longer required to update the filters, which will make it much easier to make small and/or faster filter improvements

🎉 [2.17] New Features:

• Multi-Variable Spam Checking

  • The program now has new filtering functions that can check more complex spam patterns

• New Fuzzy Duplicate Detection

  • The program now uses the "RapidFuzz" module which can be many times faster than the previous method, meaning duplicate comments will be scanned MUCH faster

📈 [2.17] Other Improvements

• Improved update checking method should allow you to still be notified of the latest beta version, even if there was a stable release of the previous version after it

KNOWN BUGS:

• I forgot to update the config_verison value in the default config, so it will keep bugging you about an outdated config every time. You can just go into your config and change "config_version" to 32 to fix it.

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

Patch 2.16.1 → 2.16.2:

• Fixed crash that would occur if no 'configs' folder exists, and user tries to create second config file

2.16.2 → 2.16.3:

• Several updates to filtering to significantly improve detection of certain types of spam, and reduction of false positives

2.16.3 → 2.164:

• Fixed crash when manually entering list of comment IDs to delete
• Reduce false positives in auto smart mode

2.16.4 → 2.16.6:

• Fixed crash when checking success of deleted or recovered comments
• If an error occurs while checking if comment was deleted, now displays the reason if available
• (v2.16.5 skipped because of missing packaged dll)

2.16.6 → 2.16.7:

• Improved filter variables
• Improved recognition of look-alike characters

2.16.7 → 2.16.8:

• Fixed custom regex filter mode not working, and also causing TypeError when logging
• Fixed UnboundLocalError when logging in some circumstances

2.16.8 → 2.16.9:

• Fix very rare crash from ZeroDivisionError

🟢 2.16.9 → 2.16.10:

• Fixed major issue that was preventing the comment recovery functionality from working
• Fixed rare error that resulted from 'videoID' variable having no value for unknown reasons
• Fix minor issue with input validation for recent video count
• Updated to latest filter variables

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

Patch 2.16.1 → 2.16.2:

• Fixed crash that would occur if no 'configs' folder exists, and user tries to create second config file

2.16.2 → 2.16.3:

• Several updates to filtering to significantly improve detection of certain types of spam, and reduction of false positives

2.16.3 → 2.164:

• Fixed crash when manually entering list of comment IDs to delete
• Reduce false positives in auto smart mode

2.16.4 → 2.16.6:

• Fixed crash when checking success of deleted or recovered comments
• If an error occurs while checking if comment was deleted, now displays the reason if available
• (v2.16.5 skipped because of missing packaged dll)

2.16.6 → 2.16.7:

• Improved filter variables
• Improved recognition of look-alike characters

2.16.7 → 2.16.8:

• Fixed custom regex filter mode not working, and also causing TypeError when logging
• Fixed UnboundLocalError when logging in some circumstances

🟢 2.16.8 → 2.16.9:

• Fix very rare crash from ZeroDivisionError

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

Patch 2.16.1 → 2.16.2:

• Fixed crash that would occur if no 'configs' folder exists, and user tries to create second config file

2.16.2 → 2.16.3:

• Several updates to filtering to significantly improve detection of certain types of spam, and reduction of false positives

2.16.3 → 2.164:

• Fixed crash when manually entering list of comment IDs to delete
• Reduce false positives in auto smart mode

2.16.4 → 2.16.6:

• Fixed crash when checking success of deleted or recovered comments
• If an error occurs while checking if comment was deleted, now displays the reason if available
• (v2.16.5 skipped because of missing packaged dll)

2.16.6 → 2.16.7:

• Improved filter variables
• Improved recognition of look-alike characters

🟢 2.16.7 → 2.16.8:

• Fixed custom regex filter mode not working, and also causing TypeError when logging
• Fixed UnboundLocalError when logging in some circumstances

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

Patch 2.16.1 → 2.16.2:

• Fixed crash that would occur if no 'configs' folder exists, and user tries to create second config file

2.16.2 → 2.16.3:

• Several updates to filtering to significantly improve detection of certain types of spam, and reduction of false positives

2.16.3 → 2.164:

• Fixed crash when manually entering list of comment IDs to delete
• Reduce false positives in auto smart mode

2.16.4 → 2.16.6:

• Fixed crash when checking success of deleted or recovered comments
• If an error occurs while checking if comment was deleted, now displays the reason if available
• (v2.16.5 skipped because of missing packaged dll)

🟢 2.16.6 → 2.16.7:

• Improved filter variables
• Improved recognition of look-alike characters

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

Patch 2.16.1 → 2.16.2:

• Fixed crash that would occur if no 'configs' folder exists, and user tries to create second config file

2.16.2 → 2.16.3:

• Several updates to filtering to significantly improve detection of certain types of spam, and reduction of false positives

2.16.3 → 2.164:

• Fixed crash when manually entering list of comment IDs to delete
• Reduce false positives in auto smart mode

🟢 2.16.4 → 2.16.6:

• Fixed crash when checking success of deleted or recovered comments
• If an error occurs while checking if comment was deleted, now displays the reason if available
• (v2.16.5 skipped because of missing packaged dll)

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

Patch 2.16.1 → 2.16.2:

• Fixed crash that would occur if no 'configs' folder exists, and user tries to create second config file

2.16.2 → 2.16.3:

• Several updates to filtering to significantly improve detection of certain types of spam, and reduction of false positives

🟢 2.16.3 → 2.164:

• Fixed crash when manually entering list of comment IDs to delete
• Reduce false positives in auto smart mode

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

Patch 2.16.1 → 2.16.2:

• Fixed crash that would occur if no 'configs' folder exists, and user tries to create second config file

🟢 2.16.2 → 2.16.3:

• Several updates to filtering to significantly improve detection of certain types of spam, and reduction of false positives

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

🟢 Patch 2.16.1 → 2.16.2:

• Fixed crash that would occur if no 'configs' folder exists, and user tries to create second config file

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day, instead of just 500.

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

🟢 Patch 2.16.0 → 2.16.1:

• Fix 'NoneType AttributeError' crash on startup when certain config settings are used, such as channel_to_scan
• 10x Improvement in API quota efficiency when fetching recent videos. Now fetches 50 videos at once, instead of 5. This means one could theoretically fetch up to 5000 recent videos per day.
• Fix rare crash caused by comments from deleted channels when writing JSON log

🎉 New Features:

• Stolen Comment Detection

  • New ability to detect users who copied and reposted an existing comment
  • By default, is only enabled in Sensitive-Smart mode, but can be enabled in any mode through config option stolen_comments_check_modes
  • By default, it detects exact matches for speed. But with config setting fuzzy_stolen_comment_detection, you can check comments that are similar. Uses the same levenshtein_distance value as when detecting duplicates
    • Note: Fuzzy stolen comment detection is much slower, and required time is exponentially proportional to the number of comments

• Ability to Set Custom Directory for Config Files

  • You can now use a new config setting called configs_path to choose where to put secondary config files
  • If you keep the new default location as 'configs', you can also put the main config file in there too
    • Otherwise, at least the main config file must be kept in the same place as the program, so it knows where to look

📈 Other Improvements

• Match sample lists are now sorted by number of comments per author (highest to lowest)

• Match sample list now shows warning if some comments are possible false positives, and highlights them

• Filter mode selection menu now better illustrates which modes can be used in "Not Your Channel Mode" and Moderator Mode

• Log files will now include a list of the videos or community posts that were scanned

• Log files now display timestamps of comments (except not community posts for now)

• New colors_enabled config setting, which allows disabling colored text if necessary

• New minimum_duplicate_length config setting, to set comment length threshold for duplicates

• Many filtering and detection improvements

Other Changes & Fixes

• Increased default minimum duplicates amount threshold from 4 to 8
• Added a few additional startup messages to help narrow down slow startups for some people
• When displaying spam threads sample list, if the video is title has investment related keywords, added notice to be extra vigilant in checking false positives of spam thread results
• Completely re-worked filter variable intake. Variables no longer use encoded obfuscation, instead precompiled regex is directly loaded, improving loading speed. Filter variables now exist in filter_variables.py
• Fixed a blocking prompt on chosenVideos mode even if skip_confirm_video is True
• Fixed issue where excluding multiple times back to back would cause duplicate whitelist entries

😤 [2.15] MAJOR New Feature: "Investment / Crypto Scam" Thread Detection

• The program now detects threads where many bots pretend to talk to each other and promote some fake scam person
• Will flag the parent comment and present a preview to nuke the whole thread at once
• Will display samples of spam threads at same time as other samples, but separately, like duplicates are
• Works on both videos and community posts

🎉 [2.15] New Features:

• Option to Purge All Comments By A User

  • Now when either holding comments for review or deleting them, you will be asked if you want to also delete all the other comments by the user, and not just their matched comments
  • New related config option: remove_all_author_comments
  • Also updates log file accordingly with the extra comments, and adds them to the comment ID list so they can be recovered as usual

• Improved Removal Mode Selection Menu

  • You now no longer need to type in all caps such as "DELETE", you can just do 'delete' for example
  • New entry option: "None" - The same as previously hitting Enter to do nothing / only log
  • Now if you don't enter a valid selection (delete / hold / report / exclude / only / none), it will ask you to try again, instead of kicking you back to the main menu

📈 [2.15] Other Improvements

• Program now validates all config settings on startup, so no more surprises in the middle of a run

• Added auto-updater for Linux

• When showing scan results summary, program now distinguishes between 'matches' and 'duplicates'

• In most cases, log file now gives reason for the match, such as "Filter Match", "Duplicate" or "Also By Matched Author"

[2.15] Other Changes & Fixes

• In update menu, if update is available, now shows short link to releases page to easily see what's new
• Change default log file format from rtf to plaintext
• Fixed log file path not being recognized with quotes around it
• Fixed crash when unable to encode certain unicode characters

Patch 2.15.0 → 2.15.1:

• Fixed crash sometimes during scan, while checking a potential spam thread
• Fixed problem where program would sometimes end after excluding even though there are duplicate comments or spam threads remaining

Patch 2.15.1 → 2.15.2:

• Fixed crash if config setting whitelist_excluded was not set to 'Ask'
• Added clarifying message that all comments will be processed at the report / deletion selection menu

Patch 2.15.2 → 2.15.3:

• Fixed rare crash from UnboundLocalError of 'listVersion' variable
• Fixed Crash when writing log file after using 'Comment Text + Username' scan mode with 'Strings' filter mode

🟢 Patch 2.15.3 → 2.15.4:

• Fix crash after being asked whether to ban, when deleting comments using a list

😤 [2.15] MAJOR New Feature: "Investment / Crypto Scam" Thread Detection

• The program now detects threads where many bots pretend to talk to each other and promote some fake scam person
• Will flag the parent comment and present a preview to nuke the whole thread at once
• Will display samples of spam threads at same time as other samples, but separately, like duplicates are
• Works on both videos and community posts

🎉 [2.15] New Features:

• Option to Purge All Comments By A User

  • Now when either holding comments for review or deleting them, you will be asked if you want to also delete all the other comments by the user, and not just their matched comments
  • New related config option: remove_all_author_comments
  • Also updates log file accordingly with the extra comments, and adds them to the comment ID list so they can be recovered as usual

• Improved Removal Mode Selection Menu

  • You now no longer need to type in all caps such as "DELETE", you can just do 'delete' for example
  • New entry option: "None" - The same as previously hitting Enter to do nothing / only log
  • Now if you don't enter a valid selection (delete / hold / report / exclude / only / none), it will ask you to try again, instead of kicking you back to the main menu

📈 [2.15] Other Improvements

• Program now validates all config settings on startup, so no more surprises in the middle of a run

• Added auto-updater for Linux

• When showing scan results summary, program now distinguishes between 'matches' and 'duplicates'

• In most cases, log file now gives reason for the match, such as "Filter Match", "Duplicate" or "Also By Matched Author"

[2.15] Other Changes & Fixes

• In update menu, if update is available, now shows short link to releases page to easily see what's new
• Change default log file format from rtf to plaintext
• Fixed log file path not being recognized with quotes around it
• Fixed crash when unable to encode certain unicode characters

Patch 2.15.0 → 2.15.1:

• Fixed crash sometimes during scan, while checking a potential spam thread
• Fixed problem where program would sometimes end program after excluding even though there duplicate comments or spam threads remaining

Patch 2.15.1 → 2.15.2:

• Fixed crash if config setting whitelist_excluded was not set to 'Ask'
• Added clarifying message that all comments will be processed at the report / deletion selection menu

🟢 Patch 2.15.2 → 2.15.3:

• Fixed rare crash from UnboundLocalError of 'listVersion' variable
• Fixed Crash when writing log file after using 'Comment Text + Username' scan mode with 'Strings' filter mode

😤 [2.15] MAJOR New Feature: "Investment / Crypto Scam" Thread Detection

• The program now detects threads where many bots pretend to talk to each other and promote some fake scam person
• Will flag the parent comment and present a preview to nuke the whole thread at once
• Will display samples of spam threads at same time as other samples, but separately, like duplicates are
• Works on both videos and community posts

🎉 [2.15] New Features:

• Option to Purge All Comments By A User

  • Now when either holding comments for review or deleting them, you will be asked if you want to also delete all the other comments by the user, and not just their matched comments
  • New related config option: remove_all_author_comments
  • Also updates log file accordingly with the extra comments, and adds them to the comment ID list so they can be recovered as usual

• Improved Removal Mode Selection Menu

  • You now no longer need to type in all caps such as "DELETE", you can just do 'delete' for example
  • New entry option: "None" - The same as previously hitting Enter to do nothing / only log
  • Now if you don't enter a valid selection (delete / hold / report / exclude / only / none), it will ask you to try again, instead of kicking you back to the main menu

📈 [2.15] Other Improvements

• Program now validates all config settings on startup, so no more surprises in the middle of a run

• Added auto-updater for Linux

• When showing scan results summary, program now distinguishes between 'matches' and 'duplicates'

• In most cases, log file now gives reason for the match, such as "Filter Match", "Duplicate" or "Also By Matched Author"

[2.15] Other Changes & Fixes

• In update menu, if update is available, now shows short link to releases page to easily see what's new
• Change default log file format from rtf to plaintext
• Fixed log file path not being recognized with quotes around it
• Fixed crash when unable to encode certain unicode characters

Patch 2.15.0 → 2.15.1:

• Fixed crash sometimes during scan, while checking a potential spam thread
• Fixed problem where program would sometimes end program after excluding even though there duplicate comments or spam threads remaining

🟢 Patch 2.15.1 → 2.15.2:

• Fixed crash if config setting whitelist_excluded was not set to 'Ask'
• Added clarifying message that all comments will be processed at the report / deletion selection menu

😤 [2.15] MAJOR New Feature: "Investment / Crypto Scam" Thread Detection

• The program now detects threads where many bots pretend to talk to each other and promote some fake scam person
• Will flag the parent comment and present a preview to nuke the whole thread at once
• Will display samples of spam threads at same time as other samples, but separately, like duplicates are
• Works on both videos and community posts

🎉 [2.15] New Features:

• Option to Purge All Comments By A User

  • Now when either holding comments for review or deleting them, you will be asked if you want to also delete all the other comments by the user, and not just their matched comments
  • New related config option: remove_all_author_comments
  • Also updates log file accordingly with the extra comments, and adds them to the comment ID list so they can be recovered as usual

• Improved Removal Mode Selection Menu

  • You now no longer need to type in all caps such as "DELETE", you can just do 'delete' for example
  • New entry option: "None" - The same as previously hitting Enter to do nothing / only log
  • Now if you don't enter a valid selection (delete / hold / report / exclude / only / none), it will ask you to try again, instead of kicking you back to the main menu

📈 [2.15] Other Improvements

• Program now validates all config settings on startup, so no more surprises in the middle of a run

• Added auto-updater for Linux

• When showing scan results summary, program now distinguishes between 'matches' and 'duplicates'

• In most cases, log file now gives reason for the match, such as "Filter Match", "Duplicate" or "Also By Matched Author"

[2.15] Other Changes & Fixes

• In update menu, if update is available, now shows short link to releases page to easily see what's new
• Change default log file format from rtf to plaintext
• Fixed log file path not being recognized with quotes around it
• Fixed crash when unable to encode certain unicode characters

🟢 Patch 2.15.0 → 2.15.1:

• Fixed crash sometimes during scan, while checking a potential spam thread
• Fixed problem where program would sometimes end program after excluding even though there duplicate comments or spam threads remaining

😤 [2.15] MAJOR New Feature: "Investment / Crypto Scam" Thread Detection

• The program now detects threads where many bots pretend to talk to each other and promote some fake scam person
• Will flag the parent comment and present a preview to nuke the whole thread at once
• Will display samples of spam threads at same time as other samples, but separately, like duplicates are
• Works on both videos and community posts

🎉 [2.15] New Features:

• Option to Purge All Comments By A User

  • Now when either holding comments for review or deleting them, you will be asked if you want to also delete all the other comments by the user, and not just their matched comments
  • New related config option: remove_all_author_comments
  • Also updates log file accordingly with the extra comments, and adds them to the comment ID list so they can be recovered as usual

• Improved Removal Mode Selection Menu

  • You now no longer need to type in all caps such as "DELETE", you can just do 'delete' for example
  • New entry option: "None" - The same as previously hitting Enter to do nothing / only log
  • Now if you don't enter a valid selection (delete / hold / report / exclude / only / none), it will ask you to try again, instead of kicking you back to the main menu

📈 [2.15] Other Improvements

• Program now validates all config settings on startup, so no more surprises in the middle of a run

• Added auto-updater for Linux

• When showing scan results summary, program now distinguishes between 'matches' and 'duplicates'

• In most cases, log file now gives reason for the match, such as "Filter Match", "Duplicate" or "Also By Matched Author"

[2.15] Other Changes & Fixes

• In update menu, if update is available, now shows short link to releases page to easily see what's new
• Change default log file format from rtf to plaintext
• Fixed log file path not being recognized with quotes around it
• Fixed crash when unable to encode certain unicode characters

🎉 2.14 New Features:

• New Scan Mode: Recent Community Posts

  • You can now fetch a limited number of recent community posts for a channel.
  • The number of posts it fetches will vary (usually from 5-10) - it depends on how many show on the site before needing to load the rest of the page

📈 2.14 Other Improvements

• Duplicate comment checking now works on community posts

• Program can now scan all replies of a thread, whereas before it was limited to 100 replies per thread

• Several filtering improvements to catch more types of spammers

• Speed of scanning community posts has been significantly improved

  • Note: It's still much slower than scanning videos

2.14 Other Changes

• Flagging "subscriber challenge" ( such as '100k subs no videos') channels as spam is now optional in the config as detect_sub_challenge_spam, and disabled by default
• Changed default duplicate comment threshold from 5 to 4
• Update to main menu layout, now shows new update availability at top right

Patch 2.14.0 → 2.14.2:

• auto_close and skip_deletion config settings should both now work properly
• You can now report comments while in 'not your channel mode' with the sensitive smart mode
• Fixed 'unbound local variable' crash when using delete_without_reviewing config setting
• Fixed crash when scanning videos with no comments
• (2.14.2): Fixed 'update available' message incorrectly showing 'beta' when release is not beta

🟢 Patch 2.14.2 → 2.14.3:

• Excluding multiple times in a row now works more as expected, displays all excluded authors on subsequent exclude commands
• Entering a blank 'exclude' command no longer crashes, but asks user for input again
• Fixed bad 'www' link displayed on first run
• Add handling for users who incorrectly created client secrets json file, or added a redundant file extension
• Improved displayed messaging to improve clarification in some places

🎉 New Features:

• New Scan Mode: Recent Community Posts

  • You can now fetch a limited number of recent community posts for a channel.
  • The number of posts it fetches will vary (usually from 5-10) - it depends on how many show on the site before needing to load the rest of the page

📈 Other Improvements

• Duplicate comment checking now works on community posts

• Program can now scan all replies of a thread, whereas before it was limited to 100 replies per thread

• Several filtering improvements to catch more types of spammers

• Speed of scanning community posts has been significantly improved

  • Note: It's still much slower than scanning videos

Other Changes

• Flagging "subscriber challenge" ( such as '100k subs no videos') channels as spam is now optional in the config as detect_sub_challenge_spam, and disabled by default
• Changed default duplicate comment threshold from 5 to 4
• Update to main menu layout, now shows new update availability at top right

🟢 Patch 2.14.0 → 2.14.2:

• auto_close and skip_deletion config settings should both now work properly
• You can now report comments while in 'not your channel mode' with the sensitive smart mode
• Fixed 'unbound local variable' crash when using delete_without_reviewing config setting
• Fixed crash when scanning videos with no comments
• (2.14.2): Fixed 'update available' message incorrectly showing 'beta' when release is not beta

🎉 New Features:

• New Scan Mode: Recent Community Posts

  • You can now fetch a limited number of recent community posts for a channel.
  • The number of posts it fetches will vary (usually from 5-10) - it depends on how many show on the site before needing to load the rest of the page

📈 Other Improvements

• Duplicate comment checking now works on community posts

• Program can now scan all replies of a thread, whereas before it was limited to 100 replies per thread

• Several filtering improvements to catch more types of spammers

• Speed of scanning community posts has been significantly improved

  • Note: It's still much slower than scanning videos

Other Changes

• Flagging "subscriber challenge" ( such as '100k subs no videos') channels as spam is now optional in the config as detect_sub_challenge_spam, and disabled by default
• Changed default duplicate comment threshold from 5 to 4
• Update to main menu layout, now shows new update availability at top right

🎉 New Features:

1. Multiple Config Files

   • You can now create multiple config files, and select from a list of them when starting the program
     • User can set short description for each config to show in the list
     • Additional configs can be created with the same menu option as when creating the first config

2. Before deleting/reporting, you can now choose to "only" process certain authors, and exclude the rest

📈 Other Improvements

• Config file updating is now compulsory, with no more need to close program after updating the config file

• Config backups are now moved to a separate folder in SpamPurge_Resources

• Now instead of automatically whitelisting excluded authors, it will ask you. With new config option whitelist_excluded to avoid the prompt

• Improved error handling when log file is opened while program tries to write to it. No longer crashes program, but asks user to close it

🟢 2.13.0 → 2.13.1:

• Fixed critical bug introduced in 2.12 that prevented more than 50 comments from being deleted

Example:

Major New Feature😤: Duplicate & Similar Comment Detection

• Detect spammers who leave duplicate comments even if they slightly modify every single one of them

• Uses Levenshtein Distance algorithm for similarity analysis
• Three New Config Settings:
  • duplicate_check_modes : Enable/Disable duplicate detection on any filter modes
  • levenshtein_distance : Set the similarity threshold for duplicate comment detection
  • minimum_duplicates : Set the how many duplicate/similar comments someone has to leave before they are flagged

Other Big New Features 👏:

• Now when removing comments using a list/log file, you can choose to only delete some of them, and the program will save your progress, so you can continue where you left off later
  • Ideal for deleting huge lists of comments
  • Automatically saves progress files and allows you to choose them later
• Now if an error occurs during scanning, such as hitting the quota limit, the program will skip the rest of the scan and create a log file based on the partial scan (no longer forcing you to exit)

Other Improvements:

• Now when excluding commenters, you can enter ranges of numbers too (such as 'exclude 1, 3-6, 5, 9-10')
• Whitelist is now re-loaded immediately after excluding authors, so it applies to other scans in same session

Other Changes:

• Detection of "link spam" (comments where it is nothing but a youtube link) is now disabled by default but can be enabled in the config via new detect_link_spam option

2.12.0 → 2.12.1:

• Fixed bug where comments from the channel owner, current user, and whitelist users were not being ignored during duplicate scanning

🟢 2.12.1 → 2.12.2:

• Fixed UnicodeEncodingError that could occur when creating deletion error log file

New Features:

• New Mode: Remove comments using a list / log file. Now if you created a log file but didn't remove the comments, you can later.

Other Improvements

• Now when you exclude an author from removal, their comment IDs will be removed from the list at the top of the log file, making the log file ready to use in the new removal mode
• Added new 'auto_close' config setting for ending program after finishing scanning
• Behind the scenes, the script has been split into several finds instead of one monolithic file, which should make it easier to maintain
• Updated filters to improve detection and reduce false positives

Major New Features 🥳:

• New "return to main menu" ability. Now in most places, instead of hitting Enter to to exit, it will instead return you to the main menu
  • Also at any prompt in the program, you can enter 'x' to return to the main menu
• Now when updating the config file version, the program will attempt to copy the old settings into the new. It will also create a backup of the old file first.

Other Improvements:

• Now when scanning recent videos, finding a live stream, video with zero comments, or comments disabled no longer blocks continuation. It will simply skip that video and notify you.
• Reworked and consolidated many variables, so the code should be easier to update going forward

2.10.0 → 2.10.1:

• Fixed community post searching not working

🟢 2.10.1 → 2.10.2:

• Fix program auto-closing when it's not supposed to (specifically when logging_enabled was not 'Ask' in config)
• Added new 'auto_close' config setting for ending program after finishing scanning
• Fixed rare issue where comments with many certain repeating characters would cause extremely slow progress / freezing
• Updated filters to reduce false positives

Major New Feature 🥳:

• You can now scan any number of recent videos (up to 500, the maximum YouTube's API will return), but be aware of API quota limits

New Features:

• When logging to json file, adds config setting to also fetch additional data about the matched authors, that might be useful for research /
• When logging extra json data, has new config setting to download profile picture thumbnails of all matched authors, as well as video uploader

New Features:

• Multiple Video Scanning: In the first scanning mode, you can now input an arbitrary list of videos to scan, instead of just a single video
• Json Logging: New config option to also log results in a json file. Along with another config setting to choose the encoding scheme for the json file

Other Improvements:

• Improved error handling, should give better instructions for certain errors

2.8.0 → 2.8.1:

• Fixed program checking for spam list updates every run instead of once daily

🟢 2.8.1 → 2.8.2:

• Fixed bug where program would crash when excluding someone with emojis / unicode in their username
• Program now better alerts user when comments being disabled is a likely cause for an error

New Features:

• PlainText Logging: New config option for plain text logging, instead of rtf
• Whilelisting: New whitelist file where you can add channel IDs that will be ignored in scans. Users excluded from removal will automatically be added to the whitelist. The file can be found in the SpamPurge_Resources folder.

Other Changes:

• The spam_lists folder has been moved into a new folder called SpamPurge_Resources. This resources folder is also where you can find the whitelist file.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed rare problem where lines of text or usernames were missing from the console in the comment outputs or samples
• Fixed bug that was causing a "note" to be printed for every single comment that was being checked for successful deletion

2.7.0 → 2.7.1:

• Fixed crash when logging if no config file exists

2.7.1 → 2.7.2:

• Fixed crash when user chooses not to create log file

2.7.2 → 2.7.3:

• Added ability for program to retrieve beta releases, and differentiate them when notifying user about update. Also added config file setting to only receive stable channel update notifications

🟢 2.7.3 → 2.7.4:

• Fixed crash on startup when using old version of config file