How to Disable YouTube Live Chat with Connected Account? (spam / sex bots issue)

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DomenicDiStefano

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I have an automated process via a script that fires up seven portable instances of OBS each day (for my ball fields) and starts a YouTube Live broadcast for each instance. Everything works perfectly except that OBS enables live chat on each stream (which I don't want). The result is the spam / sex bots start hitting the live chat window which is completely inappropriate for these youth 8-13 year old baseball & softball games... Within each of the seven individual YouTube accounts (one per field) I have all of the settings set to disable Live chat but it seems that since OBS is initiating the streams through the API in the background using the connected account (not the stream key) these defaults are getting ignored.

Pasted in a couple of screen shots below. The first is the dialog box that starts the stream. Although there a couple of options nothing to enable / disable Chat.

The second picture is an example of the garbage I am seeing on each channel a while after the streams start.

My assumption is that currently there is no user exposed way to shut the chat off but I assume this would be an easy thing for the Devs to add to the existing dialog box.

Lastly while on the subject it would also be great if the Devs could also add a command line option to auto-start a stream (with other switches for the options) so that I wouldn't have to use a clunky screen scrape program to automate this as I am doing now.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Domenic

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.norman.

.norman.

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DomenicDiStefano said:
This isn't a YouTube issue because OBS is initiating the stream via the API which ignores the preset / preference for no live chat option found in the YouTube Studio interface.
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Oh, i didn't realize that. i connect via stream key not a connected account. I realize now how differently OBS behaves with a connected YT account. connecting via stream key does not generate that YT live chat box.
 
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ctyree

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Here's what I found most effective for this. I also do livestreams for youth sports, so we don't want a chat either. When you go live, mark the video as made for kids. This disables the chat. If you would like to then increase find-ability after the stream ends (maybe some players are college level and want to be discoverable) then change the video of the livestream that's now on your channel. I also have comments disabled on the channel for a similar reason, and when I switch the livestream from for kids to not my comments still remain disabled
 
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