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ThioJoe / YT-Spammer-Purge

Allows you easily scan for and delete scam comments using several methods.
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Wrong channels being listed when given an URL that has custom URL. #965

Open ZekePolarisBSH opened 1 year ago

ZekePolarisBSH commented 1 year ago

Duplicate Issues

What happened?

Trying to scan my friend's channel, but it keeps bring up another channel. At first it was bringing up "topic" for music and now a channel that I don't even watch. It isn't a py file so I hope the exe file version is good enough. Seems to only work with channels that does not have a custom URL. If there is a post about this already, sorry I couldn't find it. Please link me it if you can.

Release version

YTSpammerPurge.2.16.10.exe

Steps to reproduce

  1. Run Program.
  2. Copy URL.
  3. Paste URL and hit ENTER.

Sorry I don't know how to explain these steps. I am only using it how I been using it.

What platform are you seeing this problem on?

Windows (.exe file)

Relevant log output

No response

Screenshots

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Firecul commented 1 year ago

I'll take the lazy route and copy and paste my response to #854 because I am lazy.

Yeah that has came up before

A couple things to add that I've found. The YouTube API offers absolutely zero way to do a direct query to retrieve the channel ID if the /c/ channel URL is given, for some reason. It does however, offer a way to directly get the channel ID if it's a legacy username, so for "youtube.com/whatever", you can query for just "whatever". (Except apparently not always? See example below)

The problem with that is, sometimes the /c/ name is different from the legacy name. So if I were to add a thing to query the username "mkbhd" for example, it actually returns this channel id: UCmf_VrB73I-eJ3fq0adaOkg, which is not MKBHD's main channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmf_VrB73I-eJ3fq0adaOkg

In fact, it's not even the same channel that comes up if you type in youtube.com/mkbhd. (I think at some point, YouTube started using the /c/whatever URL if someone typed in just youtube.com/whatever. So unless they're the same, it might not give the same result) So there's not really any perfect solution.

From https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge/issues/624

and https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge/issues/455 also had similar problems and explanations.

ThioJoe commented 1 year ago

Yea closing this as duplicate

ZekePolarisBSH commented 1 year ago

Yea that didn't help me. Issue still happens.

ThioJoe commented 1 year ago

Yea that didn't help me. Issue still happens.

@ZekePolarisBSH Can you give specific examples of it still not working so I can investigate

ZekePolarisBSH commented 1 year ago

Still does not show my friend's channel, it keeps bringing up a channel that has no connection to it at all. Keeps bringing up a TOPIC and not a channel at all. My friend's channel is older than the TOPIC so it isn't a small channel. It's been doing this since before we all started to get a random custom URL, which isn't very customizable if you ask me. YouTube's fault right there so we can't do much about that.

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Yea that didn't help me. Issue still happens.

Can you give specific examples of it still not working so I can investigate

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