Is there anything in the Discourse API that can help you like a post?

Yes, see How to reverse engineer the Discourse API and Discourse API Docs

what is the “post_action_type_id”?

For like it is 2 as you can check via How to reverse engineer the Discourse API

Como posso gostar de uma postagem específica pela API?

Falco (Falco) Abril 20, 2022, 3:58pm 2

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