naughtynewell
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- Mar 24, 2013
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So I'm sure you're all aware of the very popular upload method that has been posted on the making money forum multiple times with various twists, turns and little thing to keep it generating income.
I've been working on my upload game and I think I'm finally at the stage where I can start to bank with it.
I'm a programmer and have written some scripts that do the following:
Sourcing The Videos
Something that I actively wanted to avoid was getting takedown notices and being banned, to this end I decided to find a source for the videos that I was going to upload that would (without be having to eyeball EVERY single video) be relatively free from copyright claims and takedown notices.
Once I had found a suitable candidate for my source videos (have a quick think about it) I set about implementing their API into a python script which would scrape all the videos from a given page and store them locally.
Now that I have a big list of urls of videos I validate them to make sure they exist and also check their length, I want to create compilation videos of a particular length so I need to know the length of each "chunk" of video.
I randomly create groups of videos that are as close to my target length as possible.
Using FFMPEG I download all the various videos for a compilation, scale and pad it to a given size and then append them all to each other to create one long video of several different clips.
Uploading The Videos
Again, with a python script I use selenium a browser testing framework to navigate to my upload site and fill out all required forms, and upload the file from my fileserver to the site. I name the video with a number and provide a link to my money site in both the title and the description of the video.
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I currently have 63 videos uploaded and ~300k views on my channel. I'm hoping to upload around 10 videos a day and keep growing the channel to around 300 - 400 videos before I start to think about multi accounts.
For now I am earning cents per day through my money site, I'm not sure if that's because I'm getting stiffed and could be doing a lot better, or because that's just the traffic quality that I'm procuring from the sites I upload to. My suspicion is the latter.
I'll post on a semi regular basis with view numbers and income. If anyone has any suggestions for me, let me hear em!
I've been working on my upload game and I think I'm finally at the stage where I can start to bank with it.
I'm a programmer and have written some scripts that do the following:
Sourcing The Videos
Something that I actively wanted to avoid was getting takedown notices and being banned, to this end I decided to find a source for the videos that I was going to upload that would (without be having to eyeball EVERY single video) be relatively free from copyright claims and takedown notices.
Once I had found a suitable candidate for my source videos (have a quick think about it) I set about implementing their API into a python script which would scrape all the videos from a given page and store them locally.
Now that I have a big list of urls of videos I validate them to make sure they exist and also check their length, I want to create compilation videos of a particular length so I need to know the length of each "chunk" of video.
I randomly create groups of videos that are as close to my target length as possible.
Using FFMPEG I download all the various videos for a compilation, scale and pad it to a given size and then append them all to each other to create one long video of several different clips.
Uploading The Videos
Again, with a python script I use selenium a browser testing framework to navigate to my upload site and fill out all required forms, and upload the file from my fileserver to the site. I name the video with a number and provide a link to my money site in both the title and the description of the video.
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I currently have 63 videos uploaded and ~300k views on my channel. I'm hoping to upload around 10 videos a day and keep growing the channel to around 300 - 400 videos before I start to think about multi accounts.
For now I am earning cents per day through my money site, I'm not sure if that's because I'm getting stiffed and could be doing a lot better, or because that's just the traffic quality that I'm procuring from the sites I upload to. My suspicion is the latter.
I'll post on a semi regular basis with view numbers and income. If anyone has any suggestions for me, let me hear em!
