I’m building a YouTube channel-management platform that uses theYouTube Data API v3 (server-side OAuth 2.0 flow).
1 – Liking a video
Calling videos.rate with the value like successfully registers arating for the authenticated user, but the public like counter on thevideo’s watch page does not increase.
The official docs mention that this behavior is intentional / restricted.
- Is there any workaround to make an API-triggered like affect thepublic like count?
- For example, can a developer request a special whitelisting or elevatedaccess from YouTube to allow this?
2 – Liking a comment
Is there an endpoint in Data API v3 that allows liking or dislikingindividual comments under a video (or at least giving them a “heart”)?
I couldn’t find anything relevant in the docs or revision history.The YouTube support page suggests asking here with the tagsyoutube-api, youtube-data-api, and youtube-v3-api, so here we are.
Any authoritative answer or official reference would be greatlyappreciated. Thanks!
We have tried using our API but we did not success.