Anarios/return-youtube-dislike

Chrome extension to return youtube dislikes

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Sep 7, 2026

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returnyoutubedislike.com/
chrome-extension
dislike
dislike-button
dislikes
dislikes-count
firefox
firefox-addon
firefox-extension
youtube
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README

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Return YouTube Dislike

Return YouTube Dislike is an open-source extension that returns the YouTube dislike count.
Available for Chrome and Firefox as a Web Extension.
Also available for other browsers as JS Userscript.

The Story

On November 10th, 2021, Google announced that the YouTube dislike count would be removed.

Additionally, the dislike field in the YouTube API was removed on December 13th, 2021, removing any ability to judge the quality of content before watching.

What it Does

With the removal of dislike stats from the YouTube API, our backend switched to using a combination of scraped dislike stats and estimates extrapolated from extension user data.

FAQ

Why it Matters

You can learn more at our website at: returnyoutubedislike.com

API documentation

Third-party use of this open API is allowed with the following restrictions:

  • Attribution: This project should be clearly attributed with a link to returnyoutubedislike.com.
  • Rate Limiting: There are per client rate limits in place of 100 per minute and 10,000 per day. This will return a 429 status code indicating that your application should back off.

The API is accessible over the following base URL: https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com

List of available endpoints is available here: https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/swagger/index.html

Get votes

Example to get votes of a given YouTube video ID: /votes?videoId=kxOuG8jMIgI

{
  "id": "kxOuG8jMIgI",
  "dateCreated": "2022-04-09T21:44:20.5103Z",
  "likes": 31885,
  "rawDislikes": 31946,
  "rawLikes": 457,
  "dislikes": 579721,
  "rating": 1.2085329444119253,
  "viewCount": 3762293,
  "deleted": false
}

A non-existent YouTube ID will return status code 404 "Not Found".
An incorrectly formatted YouTube ID will return status code 400 "Bad Request".

Contributing

Please read the contribution guide.

Support this project!

You can support this project by donating to us on the link below:

Donate

Sponsors

Become our sponsor and be featured in repository and on the website

Contributors

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Anarios

408 commits

PickleNik

97 commits

Frontesque

74 commits

sy-b

69 commits

Anarios/return-youtube-dislike

Chrome extension to return youtube dislikes

13,769

stars

1,175

commits

JavaScript

primary language

Sep 7, 2026

updated

returnyoutubedislike.com/
chrome-extension
dislike
dislike-button
dislikes
dislikes-count
firefox
firefox-addon
firefox-extension
youtube
Browse cluster: Browser Extensions & Add-ons

README

Chrome Web Store Chrome Web Store Users Mozilla rating Mozilla downloads Commit rate Issues Discord License

Read this in other languages: English, العربية, Azərbaycan dili, български, 繁體中文, 简体中文, Danish, Deutsch, Español, Français, Ελληνικά, Magyar, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, 한국어, Nederlands, Polski, Português do Brasil, русский, Svenska, Türkçe, українська, Tiếng Việt

Return YouTube Dislike

Return YouTube Dislike is an open-source extension that returns the YouTube dislike count.
Available for Chrome and Firefox as a Web Extension.
Also available for other browsers as JS Userscript.

The Story

On November 10th, 2021, Google announced that the YouTube dislike count would be removed.

Additionally, the dislike field in the YouTube API was removed on December 13th, 2021, removing any ability to judge the quality of content before watching.

What it Does

With the removal of dislike stats from the YouTube API, our backend switched to using a combination of scraped dislike stats and estimates extrapolated from extension user data.

FAQ

Why it Matters

You can learn more at our website at: returnyoutubedislike.com

API documentation

Third-party use of this open API is allowed with the following restrictions:

  • Attribution: This project should be clearly attributed with a link to returnyoutubedislike.com.
  • Rate Limiting: There are per client rate limits in place of 100 per minute and 10,000 per day. This will return a 429 status code indicating that your application should back off.

The API is accessible over the following base URL: https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com

List of available endpoints is available here: https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/swagger/index.html

Get votes

Example to get votes of a given YouTube video ID: /votes?videoId=kxOuG8jMIgI

{
  "id": "kxOuG8jMIgI",
  "dateCreated": "2022-04-09T21:44:20.5103Z",
  "likes": 31885,
  "rawDislikes": 31946,
  "rawLikes": 457,
  "dislikes": 579721,
  "rating": 1.2085329444119253,
  "viewCount": 3762293,
  "deleted": false
}

A non-existent YouTube ID will return status code 404 "Not Found".
An incorrectly formatted YouTube ID will return status code 400 "Bad Request".

Contributing

Please read the contribution guide.

Support this project!

You can support this project by donating to us on the link below:

Donate

Sponsors

Become our sponsor and be featured in repository and on the website

Contributors

(top 30 of 158)

Anarios

408 commits

PickleNik

97 commits

Frontesque

74 commits

sy-b

69 commits

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