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WP Plugin: Genki YouTube Comments

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You post a video to YouTube and on your blog. Dozens of comments poured in on YouTube while your blog receives big fat ZERO comments. Hardly surprising as YouTube have got millions of users. So this is where this plugin comes in. It will grab comments from YouTube and insert them into your post. Your blog will appear more lively and a small SEO benefit: keyword stuffing

One limitation though,YouTube api only shows the last 25 comments, hence older comments cannot be retrieved.

Features

• grab youtube video comments and insert into your blog post
• schedule hourly, daily, weekly (for WP 2.1 and above)
• manual update
• works on WP 2.0-2.7

Installation

1. Upload as a folder and activate plugin
2. Go to Admin Panel > Options > YouTube Comments.
3. Set schedule or update manually.

Usage

1. in Manage > Posts, find the post which you want the comments to be inserted.
2. go to the Custom Fields section and add “youtubevidid” as key.
3. add your YouTube video id e.g X2BEhk1fqZ
4. if more than 1 vid, simply add more keys: youtubevidid1, youtubevidid2 and so on

Comment Example

Upgrade

1. Deactivate plugin
2. Upload to the plugins directory
3. Activate plugin

Changelog

Version 1.1

• play nice with new youtube API

Version 1.2

• disable error/warnings (to continue fetching comments in event of an error)

License

This plugin is released under the Creative Commons GNU GPL.

Download

Name: Genki YouTube Comments
Size: 45,17 kBytes
FileType: .zip-File
Downloads: 2241
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Tips & Tricks

The plugin is grabbing spam from YouTube. I deleted it from my blog but the plugin keeps fetching them. How can I to stop it?
The best way is to delete the spam on youtube. Otherwise you can unapprove or mark the spam comment on your blog as “Moderated”.

Need Help?

Much as I want to provide free support, there are only 24 hours a day.
So if you need a chunk of my time, I’m available for hire.

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124 Responses to “WP Plugin: Genki YouTube Comments”

1. Tzafrir צפריר | May 17th, 2007 at 6:06 am

   I’ll manage, but for the rest, you might want to supply a wget-able link.

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2. Tzafrir צפריר | May 17th, 2007 at 6:14 am

   Also, I was about to translate it to Hebrew, but it’s not gettextable.

   Too bad…

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   • Brian | January 27th, 2010 at 8:32 am

     Wouldn’t that be a security risk?

     @Eric: Tornado Twins told me about this plugin, I will use it! Thanks man!

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3. Genkisan | May 17th, 2007 at 10:14 am

   Can elaborate on the wget-able link? I’m clueless on that.

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4. Tzafrir צפריר | May 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am

   Well, you can’t download this through wget.

   A direct link to the file will work, but if you need to count the downloads then you should use something that simply redirects to the file after counting the download.

   Right now the download link gives you the zip file (I actually didn’t notice this earlier), but it’s saved with filename index.html?load=youtubecomments.zip

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5. Genkisan | May 17th, 2007 at 10:32 am

   Hmm..this is really something new to me. I’m using the WS DownloadManager, not sure if it can do the wget thingy.

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6. Abazza | May 20th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

   Possible its working with WP 2.0.3?

   Would be great.

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7. Genkisan | May 21st, 2007 at 10:53 am

   It works on 2.0.7, so I suppose it should work on 2.0.3

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8. ClaudioG | June 1st, 2007 at 2:25 am

   works on 2.2???

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9. Genkisan | June 1st, 2007 at 9:47 am

   It should. Having some problems?

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10. Andy Coon | June 9th, 2007 at 12:41 am

    Great plugin but i get this message when I try to update it.

    Error retrieving data from YouTube fail.

    I set up everything in your directions. Any suggestions?

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11. Genkisan | June 10th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    I have updated the plugin to provide better error message. Download the plugin and upload again. You should be able to narrow down the problem

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12. Andy Coon | June 10th, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    Thanks for that update it tells me that it is an internal error in youtube. To tell them exactly what is wrong.

    Thanks for the update.

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13. Genkisan | June 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Hopefully the error is not related to my plugin

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14. Ashley | June 23rd, 2007 at 9:13 am

    Any chance that you could add spam filtering? I delete certain comments from my WordPress, but when it updates, it re-adds them. Would it be possible to make it so that once it’s deleted it can’t be readded?

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15. Genkisan | June 23rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    You can unapprove them or mark them as moderated

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16. Andy Coon | June 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 pm

    It was my dumbass fault I was putting my key ID in the value box when it should’ve been the video id from the permalink. The plugin works great thanks.

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17. Genkisan | June 25th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    Ahh.. I see. No problem Andy.

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18. wanda | July 8th, 2007 at 7:38 am

    hi, this is one of the best plugins, but,
    please, can you make it work with another sites like youtube, let’s say… metacafe or flurl ?
    this will make it the best plugin!

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19. Genkisan | July 10th, 2007 at 9:58 am

    Unfortunately no, metacafe/flurl does not have api for video comments.

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20. youtubedownload | March 1st, 2008 at 10:30 am

    Any chance that you could add spam filtering? I delete certain comments from my WordPress, but when it updates, it re-adds them. Would it be possible to make it so that once it’s deleted it can’t be readded?

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21. Genkisan | March 1st, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    If youtube can’t stop them, then I don’t think I can
    Read up the Tips & Tricks section for a workaround.

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22. Andy | August 11th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Hi!
    I like your plugin and actually use it on my site. What I wanted to ask though: is there any chance to get the comments as threaded comments, they way they actually are in youtube? There are a lot of plugins for wordpress out there that feature comment-threading. Would be soooo cool.

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23. Genkisan | August 11th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    The amount of coding required.. takes a deep breadth..

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24. Preetam Purbia | August 19th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    hi
    any body have information about extensions for joomla

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25. iamdek | September 9th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    Great plugin, many thanks. I was having some problems getting this working in WP 2.6. I made some adjustments and it now works great. I documented what I did at

    http://www.iamdek.co.uk/2008/09/09/genki-youtube-comments-broken-a-fix-for-wordpress-26/

    This may prove useful for some of your other users if they are having similar difficulties.

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26. Genkisan | September 10th, 2008 at 6:27 am

    Nice detective work iamdek. Thanks

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27. Anthony | October 3rd, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Is there way to make the [..Youtube..] inserted into the comments imported actually LINK to the youtube page it originated from?

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28. Genkisan | October 4th, 2008 at 6:28 am

    LINK to the youtube page it originated from = the youtube video page? Change line 155 in genki_youtube_comments.php to

    $comment_content = ' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' . $videopost->meta_value . '">[..YouTube..]</a> ' . addslashes($ytvideo->CONTENT[0]->_text);

    But I wouldn’t recommend changing that code. Reason being you already have existing comments so changing the code will re-grab the comments again, resulting in double comments.

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29. Anthony | October 7th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Gotcha. Thanks anyway. I’m loving this plugin!

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30. Gece Gündüz | November 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    Thanks, very good plugin.

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31. Patrick Nelson | November 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    does this work with the lates version of wp. i’m getting code errors.

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    • Genkisan | November 28th, 2008 at 7:09 am

      It should work. What are the code errors?

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32. laling | November 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    Please Help on this..Thank you

    http://www.youtube.com/my_profile_dev

    The APIs accessed by this developer ID program have been deprecated and are no longer supported. To use the new APIs or get information about migrating your applications, please visit the YouTube Developer site at code.google.com.

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    • Genkisan | November 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

      What verion of the plugin are you using? The latest version should be 1.2.

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33. 一滴红尘泪 | December 18th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    支持下，太棒了，这个插件，谢谢作者！可惜我英文不好！！
    http://www.90606.cn
    可以做个友情连接吗？

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34. Bryan | December 20th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Awesome plugin. Is there anyway to grab the YouTube user’s email address, instead of using api@youtube.com?

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    • Genkisan | December 20th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

      Nope. YouTube doesn’t publish user’s email.

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35. Boogieboa | January 15th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

    Love the plugin. Cheers!

    Do we need to keep [..YouTube..] in the comment box in order to update comments? Or can it be deleted without creating double entries?

    So I’ve downloaded my first 25 comments to my blog. Another five comments have been added since then. What happens when I update next time? Do I just get the new comments added?

    Thanks again!!

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    • Genkisan | January 16th, 2009 at 7:35 am

      As you have downloaded comments before, there will be double entries if you remove the [..YouTube..]

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      • Boogieboa | January 18th, 2009 at 12:31 am

        What if the tag is not removed? Does the plugin add new comments to the last 25 fetched? Or does it overwrites the previous 25 downloaded with the latest twenty-five?

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36. Boogieboa | January 18th, 2009 at 12:07 am

    Why do I get double entries whenever I update?

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    • Genkisan | January 18th, 2009 at 9:05 am

      Out of the box, the plugin should only fetch new comments. It will check for existing comments and ignore them. What’s your blog url?

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37. Jeton | January 28th, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    Hey is it possible to change file_get_contents() with curl

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    • Genkisan | January 29th, 2009 at 7:29 am

      Piotr GRD got you covered here

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      • Jeton | February 19th, 2009 at 10:51 am

        Thnx Alot Man you really save me, for all that wanna see this plugin working with curl visit http://muzikeshqip.net

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38. Piotr GRD | January 28th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Hello.
    I want to announce a little modified version of this plugin. It uses now cURL instead of file_get_contents for all servers where allow_url_fopen is disabled. Not a big modification but can be useful for persons who are not able to modify it by themselves.
    http://www.110mb.com/forum/filegetcontents-problem-with-wordpress-t41883.0.html;msg356663#msg356663
    Greetings
    Piotr GRD

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    • Genkisan | January 29th, 2009 at 7:31 am

      Thanks Piotr!

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39. Adi | April 1st, 2009 at 2:16 am

    Could you explain how to moderate comments in Wordpress 2.7.1? I would like to manually approve each comment it fetches, but the instructions you show above don’t apply to the new version. Thanks for the great plugin?

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    • Genkisan | April 1st, 2009 at 7:17 am

      All comments are approved by default. if you wish to manually approve the comments, you need to modify the plugin. Open genki_youtube_comments,

      line 156, change to “$comment_approved = 0;”
      line 179, change to ” //wp_update_comment_count($videopost->post_id);”

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      • Adi | April 4th, 2009 at 12:35 am

        Thanks…I tried that, and it worked. But if I click “download comments” again, it re-downloads all of those comments I just un-approved. What do you suggest?

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        • Genkisan | April 4th, 2009 at 7:07 am

          Do not delete or mark them as spam. Set the comment status to “Moderated” (see picture under the tips & tricks section).

    • Adi | April 5th, 2009 at 7:12 am

      Your screenshots look a lot different than mine…I have a newer version maybe? My wordpress does not have that option.

      Here’s a screenshot.
      http://www.upliftmysoul.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/picture-12.png

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      • Genkisan | April 5th, 2009 at 8:47 am

        Oh yea.. since you modified the plugin, the default status is already “Pending”. So you don’t need to set the status to “Pending”. Leave them as they are, and don’t delete or mark them as spam.

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40. Planet X | April 8th, 2009 at 4:40 am

    Great Plugin!

    Is there a way to remove the link back to youtube?… so it just leaves the auther screen name, but no link back to their account?

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    • Genkisan | April 8th, 2009 at 8:16 am

      Comment out or remove line 152 ($comment_author_url = …).

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41. peter | April 27th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    great plug-in – thank you!

    only suggestion – it would be great to be able to show or hide the “[..YouTube..]” text on each comment. any plans to add this feature?

    thx

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    • Genkisan | April 28th, 2009 at 7:27 am

      I think I will leave this as a hack, as switching between the 2 will result in duplicate comments.

      Replace

      $comment_content = ' [..YouTube..] ' . addslashes($ytvideo->CONTENT[0]->_text);

      with

      $comment_content = addslashes($ytvideo->CONTENT[0]->_text);

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42. Inlapp SEO Services | May 12th, 2009 at 1:35 am

    Thaks for this! I will definitely use it in one of my video blogs.

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43. newzworth@gmail.com | June 17th, 2009 at 1:46 am

    What a fantastic tool. I am mad I didnt find it sooner

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44. Iva | July 28th, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    Hey, can you please tell me if this will work on 2.8.x? Looks really useful.

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    • Genkisan | July 28th, 2009 at 10:42 pm

      Should not be a problem.

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      • Iva | July 29th, 2009 at 7:07 am

        Thanks, I’ll give it a go.

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        • Pantless Knights | August 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 am

          Hi, this is a fantastic plug-in, but it stopped working for us when we upgraded to 2.8. Any chance you’ll add support for the latest WP build?

          Specifically, it doesn’t update automatically and when you click “Manual Update Comments” nothing happens.

          Thanks

        • Genkisan | August 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 am

          No problem on my side. I’m on WP 2.8.2.

45. Nico | August 27th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Just wondering if it would be possible to push comments from a Vimeo.com video (or really any other video sites) as well. Apologies if this is a ridiculous request as I’m unaware of the labor involved in this. Just curious as I have a portfolio blog of sorts and Vimeo is a little more for us “art-folk.”
    Thanks

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    • Genkisan | August 28th, 2009 at 7:26 am

      Possible as vimeo’s api allows for comment to be retrieve. I hope someone can pick this up and modify the code.

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      • Nico | August 30th, 2009 at 2:47 am

        Well that is good to know. Hopefully someone (smarter than I) will be able to conjure something up. I spent a few hours looking into ways of re-engineering your code with the Vimeo API docs but I’m not too bright when it comes to this stuff

        Thanks again.

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46. Iceman Beats | September 11th, 2009 at 9:35 am

    Great plugin, thanks for creating it.

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47. shaunjudy | September 29th, 2009 at 6:33 am

    Great plugin thanks!

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48. M.W | December 18th, 2009 at 7:11 am

    Such a great plugin….

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49. Shannon Teresa | December 24th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    I just updated to 2.9 and now it won’t bring over youtube comments from any new post since I made the update. Oddly it still brings over the comments from older posts.

    I NEED this plugin in my life – it’s my absolute fav! Is anyone else having a 2.9 issue, if so how to fix it?

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    • Shannon Teresa | December 25th, 2009 at 1:22 am

      I just kept pressing Update Manually and after the 4th time it worked on the newer posts, maybe a backlog? But I have been noticing since 2.8.2 and higher the updates take longer and longer to do so automatically

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    • Genkisan | December 25th, 2009 at 7:59 am

      Sounds like your server is overloaded while fetching too many comments. You may want to reduce the number of videos to be fetched by deleting the “youtubevidid” key in some older posts. A faster server may also help.

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50. Trucker Steve | January 15th, 2010 at 12:45 am

    Thank you so much for making this awesome plugin. Your plugin combined with the seo super comments plugin is a smash success. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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51. ali | January 18th, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    can i also retrieve video from youtube with this plugin? or only comments? thx

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    • Genkisan | January 18th, 2010 at 4:34 pm

      Only comments.

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