How to automatically "like" Youtube videos?

[pvonmoradi]

I use youtube-dl to download many youtube tutorials in the form of whole channels and playlists. However, since some content producers rely on the view and like count metrics of their videos, I like to automatically "push like button" their videos.
1- How to automatically "like" youtube videos before/while/after downloading process?
2- Does downloading via youtube-dl increment the "view count" of the downloaded video? If not, how to do it?

I just wanna support content producers. Thanks for this great utility.

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question

[dstftw]

1. Not possible.
2. Unlikely. No explicit way to do so.