YouTube Spammer Purge

It allows you to filter and search for spammer comments on your channel and other's channel(s) in many different ways AND delete/report them all at once (see features below).

Features

• 15 Different Filtering Methods
• • Auto-Smart Mode (Recommended): Automatically detects multiple spammer techniques
• • Sensitive-Smart Mode: More likely to catch elusive spammers, but with more false positives
• • Scan by Channel ID: Enter a known spammer's channel link or ID directly
• • Scan Usernames for: Individual special characters, individual strings, or using a custom Regex expression
• • Scan Comment Text: (Same 3 options as above)
• • Scan Usernames and Comment Text simultaneously: (Same 3 options as above)
• • ASCII Mode: Scan Usernames for non-ASCII special characters (three different sensitivities)
• 4 Different Scanning Modes
• • Scan a single video
• • Scan Recent Videos (Up to 5)
• • Scan recent comments across entire channel (all videos)
• • Experimental: Scan a community post
• Automatic deletion of all found comments (after confirmation), as well as the option to ban them
• Options to instead Report spam comments or 'Hold For Review'
• Ability to create config file to skip pre-set options
• Rich text log files
• 'Recovery Mode' option to re-instate previously deleted comments
• Displays "match samples" after printing comments list to easily spot false positives
• Ability to exclude selected authors before deletion / reporting

Purpose

Recently, there has been a massive infestation of spam on YouTube where fake impersonator accounts leave spam/scam replies to hundreds of users on a creator's videos. For some god-forsaken reason, YouTube offers no way to delete all comments by a specific user at once, meaning you must delete them one by one BY HAND.

YouTube offers a functionality to ban a user, but it does NOT delete previous comments. Therefore I created this script to allow you to instantly purge their spam replies, and since then it has evolved into a fully featured spam scanner as well. IT DOES NOT PREVENT SPAMMERS - It only makes it easier to delete them when they show up! YouTube still must implement better native tools for dealing with spammers.