After yesterdays 10K Dislike deletion by YouTube on the inauguration video, started tracking the numbers every ten minutes. This is 33 hours from the start of tracking. Inauguration Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5iCPKDp4V4 Data used (CSV): https://hackerpaste.hns.siasky.net/#EAAk7BxJOcLHUUGKSZiSozk30pdOkEyeul7rKoupoGvDCgTVLOOXJL3tN2xJAXfwlS

--EDIT: Thanks all for the great response!

Tidied the script for people to use if they'd like to track videos themselves. The script works by checking an Invidious instance every ten minutes and outputting the data.

Invidious is an alternate front-end to YouTube that does not use the YT API. This means it can't be banned as it's just accessing the site the way ordinary users do. It also means nobody needs to sign up with a YT account to do the tracking, and it also means YT doesn't have any concept of what's happening. Included here is the exact script used to generate the data used in above chart, just tidied up a bit.

The script uses nodejs so be sure to have that installed (nodejs.org - choose the "recommended for most users" version). There is no error checking on output so may need to manually clean output file of errors incase of disconnects etc. Also be warned if the user doesn't change the output file name on a second run, running the script again will delete the previous output file.

Be great to have pedes tracking different videos. Probably reasonable for a single pede to track 10 vids by staggering script executions by one minute each time. Wouldn't be wise to run more often than that or the Invidious instance may get upset with the amount of traffic (these are run by ordinary people not companies, typically). Recommend choosing different Invidious instances from the default too, to spread around usage.

Here's the script (nodejs): https://hackerpaste.hns.siasky.net/#AACHM9htwj7VWJXcakR0ilowQSJyjkZLnRz-6NAxYfOigQe1UcbSzSBlWGyIm4aZTf

Will log in time to time to help if poss.