Youtube Comment Suite Versions Save

New

• Manage Groups Add new max retry attempts option
• Settings Replace in-app web browser for account login with default browser. Must copy/paste token back into app to complete login. #92
  • Note: Sign-in is still broken as the unverified user cap of 100 has been reached. May not work unless you were in the first 100 or until I can verify the project (unlikely).

Fix

• Manage Groups Moderated comments were not being inserted into the database #98
• Search Comments Export issues
  • Channel ID missing on videos
  • Tag filter not used in export query #97

Under the hood

• Add masking to sensitive fields logged and fields on certain objects just in-case they are logged somewhere indirectly or in the future
• Update dependencies but most importantly log4j2 due to its vulnerabilities
  • commons-lang3 3.12.0
  • gson 2.8.9
  • guava 31.0.1-jre
  • jsoup 1.14.3
  • sqlite-jdbc 3.36.0.3
  • log4j-api 2.17.1
  • log4j-core 2.17.1

New

• Search Comments Revamp export comments functionality #35 #75 #83
  • Export as CSV
  • Export in a single-file
  • Default set to CSV single-file
  • about.txt
  • Videos always in a single-file now

Fix

• Manage Groups Video descriptions not being stored correctly
• Search Comments Export no longer has duplicate or missing comments #84
• Search YouTube Occasional graphical glitch after searching and resizing the window
• Search YouTube Now handles out of pages scenario, disabling next page button #85

Under the hood

• General maintenance

New

• Manage Groups Estimated quota usage message at the end of group refresh
• Manage Groups Smart-page option to stop on the first page of non-new comments when sorting by newest first.
• Manage Groups Option to choose whether already downloaded comments and channels are overwritten/updated

Fix

• Manage Groups Select a newly created group like it used to
• Manage Groups On refresh, ignore comments and replies that are missing channel information. This is a bug recognized by google but they have no plan to fix it. These would be the NullPointerException / null messages that appeared during refresh in the previous release.

Under the hood

• Manage Groups Additional improvements for group refresh. Now grabs up to 5 replies on comment threads in CommentThreadProducer reducing the need for and calls made by ReplyProducer for threads with 5 or fewer replies.
• General refactoring of some data objects and null safety.
• Made image cache larger and last longer.

New

• Ability to grab and search moderated held-for-review comments on videos owned by signed-in accounts #12
• YouTube API Quota modal/button beside the settings button. Gives the basic detail about resetting at midnight PT and tells you when that is on your system time zone and how long. Links to #5 issue page
• Global Scrollbars throughout the app are darker for more contrast
• Settings Attempt Oauth2 revoke on account remove
• Comment Search Add, remove, and search multiple tags on comments #15
• Manage Groups Comment threads and replies upped from 50 results/page to 100 results/page

Fix

• Manage Groups Fix refresh not ending on quota error

Under the hood

• Increased refresh process efficiency and less quota usage: channel details directly from commentThreads.list significantly reducing calls to channel.list
• Refactored CommentDatabase
• Removed a lot of unused sql and commented out code
• Better Google Error handling using reasonCode instead of http codes

New

• Global Sort group items alphabetically #28
• Global Tweaked all modal widths to be slightly wider
• Manage Groups Refresh styles and refresh customization #54
  • Video timeframe (all - past 10 years)
  • Comment page count (0 - 500)
  • Comment order (newest first, top comments)
  • Reply page count (0 - 500)
  • Messages for skipped/kept videos when using timeframe
  • Message for duplicate channelIds ignored
• Manage Groups New group stat "Grabbed Comments" and percentage
• Manage Groups Moved Fast-add setting from Settings to the bulk add section of the add item modal
• YouTube Search Added sorting options Title and Video Count

Fixed

• Global Group name display after rename #7
• Global All files should be made in UTF-8 this time #61
• Manage Groups Last refresh date displays 'never refreshed' again #68
• Manage Groups Displaying Default group twice after trying to delete it #65
• Manage Groups Can no longer make a Group name blank or add whitespace before/after. #71
• Manage Groups Group create modal no longer frozen when submitting an empty name #64
• Manage Groups GroupItems displaying twice after deleting one item. #63
• YouTube Search Sort by views now works #70
• YouTube Search Send the the right type parameter value #67
• YouTube Search Lock type to Video when using location search

Under the hood

• Migration from IntelliJ Artifact builds to Maven
  • Running the package command assembles jar and release files
  • pom.xml properties project.version and current.year now used in build jar and replaced in Settings.fxml
  • MANIFEST class-path no longer needs to be manually created
• Using new event system for group and group item changes (Guava EventBus)
• Refactored the Group Refresh process to be significantly easier to work with and is more efficient
  • Consumer multi-producer type pattern
  • Broken up by important action
  • Ignoring duplicate channelIds and videoIds
  • Visio diagram available in resources folder
• Update dependencies
  • guava 29.0-jre -> 30.1-jre
  • sqlite-jdbc 3.32.3.2 -> 3.34.0
  • log4j-api 2.13.3 -> 2.14.0
  • log4j-core 2.13.3 -> 2.14.0
  • junit 4.13.1 -> junit-jupiter-engine 5.4.0
  • mockito-all 1.10.19 -> mockito-core 3.7.0 and mockito-junit-jupiter 2.23.0
  • Remove byte-buddy, byte-buddy-agent, hamcrest-all

• New Updated dependencies with Maven.
• New Pressing Enter (default) or Esc (cancel) behavior added to modals #49
• New Context menu options to copy comment and channel ids
• New Comment filtering by specific channel or comment id #36
• New Settings option to toggle filtering duplicates in comment context menu copy options #37
• Changed Replaced Search YouTube tab's geolocation button to use https://ip-api.com/
• Fix When exporting in condensed mode, replies will now have the missing commentDate field #50

• New Fast group add setting when adding several hundred to thousands of URLs to a group.
  • Tested with up to 50,000 URLs
  • Changed Disabled videos list on group manager now restricted to at most 25, otherwise thousands of disabled videos could use a lot of network resources downloading thumbnails.
• New Comment search video select can now find a video with a specific video ID
• New Comment search video select searches on press Enter instead of having to manually click the search button
• Fix Export now explicitly writes files in UTF-8 format.
• Fix Error thrown on videos with disabled view counts.

This new release has a couple new features added, many bug fixes, and the majority being under the hood improvements.

• New Added feature to bulk add multiple links to a group #16
• New Added feature to export comment search results to JSON files #13
• New Added new viewer counts to Group Manager and group refresh modal. This will tell you the total unique commentors "viewers".
• New Using the official YouTube Java API #19
• New Updated dependencies with Maven.
• New General under the hood improvements
  • Replaced all instances of old Date with new Java 8 Date API
  • Cleaned up logger declarations.
  • IntelliJ code inspection fixes
• Changed Reply option now uses @ prefix instead of + as I now believe it referenced Google Plus, something which is now retired. It doesn't make too much sense to have G+ symbol when @ (at) sounds and looks better.
• Changed Some visual tweaks.
  • Message list height in refresh modal now matches height of pane beside it.
  • Pagination input now matches content length
  • Date format shown on comments now RFC3339
• Changed Examples on the Add Item modal in the group manager. Previous examples while originally a joke (Rick Roll) were massive and would take more than an hour for the Never Gonna Give You Up video. New examples are from a very small channel (oceanexplorergov) which even features comments disabled videos too and should take less than 5 minutes for the entire channel.
• Fixed Bug where playlists wouldn't work correctly #18
• Fixed Bug where group refresh never ends #11. A few problems compounded this from occurring: using an arbitrary progress value for thread-lifecycle management and poor counting; it was possible for channel ID threads to accumulate a list of more than 50 ids which endlessly errors.
• Fixed Various bugs and issues found while making changes (may not have existed before)
  • Pagination in comment search wasn't working correctly.
  • Not saving refreshed account tokens in the config file.
  • New-comments count during group refresh may have been off.
  • New-viewers count during refresh now works correctly.
  • Show More / Reply modal was showing the reply button in the wrong situations
  • Thumb caching when archival is enabled and internet goes on and off.
  • Grabbing channels of a group item and videos under it during refresh.
• Removed No longer using my custom YouTube API project youtube-data-list
• On hold Added some files and references that will make upgrading to newer Java versions easier but doesn't interfere with building / releasing for Java 8. #6
  • module-info.java file content all commented out, will not affect build.
  • pom.xml now has commented out references to Java 11 compatible JavaFX dependencies. necessary since JavaFX will no longer be included in Java after version 10.
  • Modules are confusing and I don't believe all jar dependencies in lib/ are compatible yet, this means upgrading will still be a while.

Check out the overview of the interface to get a good idea of what the visual changes are.

• New Some visual changes have been made, especially to modals. All modals now have the same style with varying color styles depending on the action.
• New Better button and modal color styles in the inspiration of Bootstrap coloring.
• New More information displayed in the group manager: hovering over data points displays a popup with the value and date range, total video likes/dislikes, like/dislike ratio, and normalized like/dislike ratio.
• New Option to set your own custom YouTube API key in the settings.
• New Option to remove thumbfiles when the thumb-downloading archival option has been used.
• New A couple JUnit tests have been added. More may be added in the future.
• New Logging with log4j. This will be a huge help in debugging for me and for when submitting issues to me by users.
• New Toggle Query bar in the search comments section.
• New Pick a specific page and go when searching comments by clicking the page value at the bottom.
• Changed UI now built using FXML for JavaFX.
• Changed Dependencies have been updated.
• Changed SQL used to create and interact with the database has been migrated to resource files loaded at runtime.
• Changed Lots of refactoring.

• New Option to select a specific video while comment searching. Search, sort, and select a video within the chosen Group and GroupItem. See preview here.
• Changed Default comment profile pictures display as gray letter avatars instead of older blue profile.
• Changed 'Reply' comment types now display with an icon below profile picture. 'Comment' comment types have nothing below profile picture.
• Changed Comment search page traversal from << < > >> characters to icons.
• Changed Comment context likes, dislikes, and views shortened and icons added.
• Changed Text on button 'View Tree' to 'View Thread'
• Updated SQlite3 library from 3.19.3 to 3.21.0
• Fixed Issue with JavaFX WebView when using the YouTube Account sign-in preventing 'Tap Yes' authentication.