A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key.
did you knew about this extension? https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike They use archived data for older videos and extrapolated votes of extension users for newer videos. And they have an API. This is probably as good as it gets.
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