Youtube videos rate API does not increase like/dislike counter

Question

I'm trying to like a video on user's behalf but got stuck in increment of like counter. Like/Dislike counter is not updating. When a video is rated by api request, I get 200 response which means success according to docs. Also, video is available in user's Liked playlist and the like icon is blue on video but the like/dislike counter does not increase. I've waited for 2 days but the counter is still same. You can see the counter in picture attached. I'm using python 2.7 with google-api-python-client library.

Screenshot shows blue liked button but counter does not increase

Answer 1

I already tried to like a video manually and through API, and I get a successful output. I recommend you to try again this process on different/new video and observe if this scenario repeat again.

I use this videos:rate to increase the like of a video, just pass the video ID of a video in the id parameter and pass a value like in the rating parameter.

This videos:rate link also has a PYTHON code that shows you on how to calls the API's videos.rate method to set a positive rating for a video.

For more information, check this related SO question.

Answer 2

True, Likes/Dislikes counter does not change. Rate appears only for api users who rated video but not for others. This may happen to prevent abuse, no one knows.