[GH-ISSUE #218] Downvote by Artist #170

New issue

Closed

opened 2026-02-27 22:08:25 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

kerem commented

2026-02-27 22:08:25 +03:00

Owner

Originally created by @lincalinca on GitHub (Aug 13, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/issues/218

I want to banish certain artists from ever being listened to. At best, it looks like if I downvote all of their songs, it'll eradicate at least their existing library from ever coming up in listens, which is fine for now.

Some artists, this is fine to be done individually, where they have like 20 songs, but some, like R Kelly, there's hundreds. I want to nope them away, but it'll just take too long to do manually.

tl;dr: Can you add the upvote and downvote functionality, and the ability to filter whole artists to them apply the trigger to?

Originally created by @lincalinca on GitHub (Aug 13, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/issues/218 I want to banish certain artists from ever being listened to. At best, it looks like if I downvote all of their songs, it'll eradicate at least their existing library from ever coming up in listens, which is fine for now. Some artists, this is fine to be done individually, where they have like 20 songs, but some, like R Kelly, there's hundreds. I want to `nope` them away, but it'll just take too long to do manually. tl;dr: Can you add the upvote and downvote functionality, and the ability to filter whole artists to them apply the trigger to?

kerem closed this issue

2026-02-27 22:08:25 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-02-27 22:08:26 +03:00

Author

Owner

@sigma67 commented on GitHub (Aug 18, 2021):

I don't think this is even a feature of YouTube Music? You can do as you suggested by getting all songs of a particular artists and using rate_song to dislike them, but for an artist downvote feature you'll need to ask Google Support (this is an unofficial project).

@sigma67 commented on GitHub (Aug 18, 2021): I don't think this is even a feature of YouTube Music? You can do as you suggested by getting all songs of a particular artists and using `rate_song` to dislike them, but for an artist downvote feature you'll need to ask Google Support (this is an unofficial project).

kerem commented

2026-02-27 22:08:26 +03:00

Author

Owner

@lincalinca commented on GitHub (Aug 29, 2021):

I know yt doesn't have an artist downvote, so downvoting all songs in bulk (i.e. systematically via api) seems the most workable solution.

@lincalinca commented on GitHub (Aug 29, 2021): I know yt doesn't have an artist downvote, so downvoting all songs in bulk (i.e. systematically via api) seems the most workable solution.

kerem commented

2026-02-27 22:08:26 +03:00

Author

Owner

@grimm26 commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2021):

@lincalinca that is exactly why I wrote https://github.com/grimm26/ytm_dislike_artist

@grimm26 commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2021): @lincalinca that is exactly why I wrote https://github.com/grimm26/ytm_dislike_artist