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I’m building a YouTube channel-management platform that uses the YouTube Data API v3 (server-side OAuth 2.0 flow).

1 – Liking a video

Calling videos.rate with the value like successfully registers a rating for the authenticated user, but the public like counter on the video’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 the public like count?
  • For example, can a developer request a special whitelisting or elevated access from YouTube to allow this?

2 – Liking a comment

Is there an endpoint in Data API v3 that allows liking or disliking individual 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 tags youtube-api, youtube-data-api, and youtube-v3-api, so here we are.

Any authoritative answer or official reference would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

We have tried using our API but we did not success.

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