Videos: rate

Add a like or dislike rating to a video or remove a rating from a video.

Quota impact: A call to this method has a quota cost of 50 units.

NOTE: This does not affect the official like/dislike count of the video.

Common use cases

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos/rate

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl`

Parameters

The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.

Parameters
Required parameters
`id`	`string` The `id` parameter specifies the YouTube video ID of the video that is being rated or having its rating removed.
`rating`	`string` Specifies the rating to record. Acceptable values are: `dislike` – Records that the authenticated user disliked the video. `like` – Records that the authenticated user liked the video. `none` – Removes any rating that the authenticated user had previously set for the video.

Request body

Do not provide a request body when calling this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an HTTP 204 response code (No Content).

Errors

The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the error message documentation for more detail.

Error type	Error detail	Description
`badRequest (400)`	`emailNotVerified`	The user must verify their e-mail address prior to rating.
`badRequest (400)`	`invalidRating`	The request contained an unexpected value for the `rating` parameter.
`badRequest (400)`	`videoPurchaseRequired`	Rental videos can only be rated by users who rented them.
`forbidden (403)`	`forbidden`	The video that you are trying to rate cannot be rated. The request might not be properly authorized.
`forbidden (403)`	`videoRatingDisabled`	The owner of the video that you are trying to rate has disabled ratings for that video.
`notFound (404)`	`videoNotFound`	The video that you are trying to rate cannot be found. Check the value of the request's `id` parameter to ensure that it is correct.

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