This will not be worked on because each individual's search terms will be different. I only created this issue to inform everyone of this bug. However, once I have more information on how to avoid this, I'll draw out some guidelines.

I'd like to pin the automated comments, so it's visible at the top of the comment section and not drowned out by the other comments. However, I did not see a way to do this in the docs.

I was using the script on my channel's videos, and there was a video causing the ZeroDivisionError, so upon looking at the details for the video, I found that it had no likes and dislikes, and so, it was getting the error, and causing a Traceback. This can be prevented by writing a testcase that checks such a thing.

This is a task that can be elaborated on in the future, but when other Youtubers start using this tool, we may want to have a strategy to ensure the number of likes and dislikes cannot be fudged by the user. This is so that we don't have people abusing and ruining this tool.

First of, its my first time writing anything on GitHub, sorry if I don't make sense, you can just give a dislike and i'll remove the issue, just hoping to help.

I think a small txt or json file could be generated for the first run of grabbing all video IDs and then cache it in order to skip the next page token thing that happens when you request for video IDs. And in order to check if a new video is uploaded you can just check against the top ID of cached file vs first returned ID from API. (assuming video ID is static)

I am really sorry if i got the whole process wrong, if it's a real issue, i'll go read up the all the youtube API docs and excitedly contribute a solution, I did not go through it as of posting the issue as I am studying for my exams. Thanks,

OT.

https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike

The comments in their README detail why you shouldn't put any more effort into this; it's practice, it's something to show your viewers, but Youtube's working against you man. I was about to write a JS userscript which would revert the old behavior of the dislike button in-browser, and comment a link to it in your video, but I was lucky to find that project before I got too deep.

While reading your code, and reflecting on the hate-bombing that Youtube is trying to combat for good reason, I came up with an idea. Why not force users to watch like 5-10 videos from a specific channel all the way through, before being allowed to create a review of that channel or piece of content? This would probably require an overhaul of youtube's existing rating infrastructure to something like the five star system, but my thought is that it could help humanize targets of hate-bombing, while also ensuring that people are actually exposed to content before leaving bogus ratings.

IDK, lmk what you think. I'm not a YT creator or anything so I have literally no way to suggest this idea @youtube for consideration. Good review systems serve a utility to viewers, what Youtube is doing now isn't doing anything to really help the problem at hand.