Wednesday, September 21, 2011

[YouTube-API] Application behaviour results in comments being marked as spam?

Hello, humans. A quick query.

Since I am a rabid commenter on Youtube videos and very impatient to
boot, I've written a little webinterface that allows me to type a
reply to a comment under a youtube interface, which is then placed in
a queue for processing. The processor uses the PHP gdata api to post
the comment. If the processor receives a quota error, it postpones the
next try by five minutes. The processor is wired to attempt one post
per five minutes.

Lately, all my comments seem to be marked as spam, and I'm thinking
that this is somehow related to the posting behaviour of my
application. It seems as if youtube has implemented some algorithm to
detect bots (easy, as they'll all use the gdata interface) and
preemtively mark such comments as spam.

My question is: is there any way to prevent my comments being marked
as spam by this algorithm? Reduce my frequency to once per 10 minutes,
perhaps? Provide additional authentication somehow?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

Gr,

Gr.

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