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How to grow a YouTube channel from a TikTok scraper

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How to grow a YouTube channel from a TikTok scraper
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Mario Lemus

I am a self-taught frontend developer, and I do enjoy learning new techs

Yeah! as the title of this article suggests. I will be creating a TikTok video scrapper, so the biggest question here, is why?

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To be completely honest with you guys. I want to start uploading videos on YouTube, but growing a YT channel from scratch is actually hard and takes a lot of time and dedication " which I'm surely lacking "

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So after I watched a guy over on TikTok suggesting re-upload TikToks to youtube shorts to get a bunch of subscribers faster, and later deleting them. In order, to start uploading your own content. I gave it a try and Oh Lord! to my surprise It actually works one of my videos got 9k views on the first-day, and even I got more than 20 subscribers on the first day, as well.

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Here is some proof:

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Here is my channel name, by the way, I upload memes:

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So when I see this working I decided to automate the process so I can accelerate the process even more, and after thinking a lot I decided to do it, and that's why you see this post. Because I came to a conclusion and of course seeing that there is an ongoing contest by Hashnode.

I decided to create a series following the process of becoming a YouTuber in a short period of time of course, all the series will be more oriented to the technical standpoint and not the marketing one (but if you want something related to marketing in tech, comment it).

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So to close the introduction of this series, I want to spam you with my personal blog in which I will be updating the series faster than I will do in Hasnode.

😝⚡ Here is the link: https://www.thismar.xyz/

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Tiia3y ago

Hello Mario, I see a problem with this and it is how YouTubes algorithm works. With this method you will slowly kill your channel and I can explain you why.

If you want to grow a channel with long format videos your audienence HAS to grow with those videos because YouTube will use your subscribers as a testgroup if they should show people your videos.

So you upload a video -> about half of your subscribers watch it -> YouTube will think "Thats amazing. We will show it to more people." And then they start suggesting your videos next to big channels in your niche.

When you boost up your subscribers with people who don't care about your long term videos you will then publish a videos -> nobody watches it -> it signals YouTube that not even your subscribers watch it, so they won't spread it at all.

Every subscriber that is not there for your actual content, hurts your channel growth.

The second problem I see is that you are technically breaking the law and YouTube might ban you from the platform alltogether. That's not something I would risk honestly.

(Experience: I grew two successful YouTube Channels in compliance with the rules)

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Mario Lemus3y ago

Being honest with you, I really want to naturally grow a YT channel, but at least in this case is more something like an experiment, and not really a long term strategy. Because as you said before there are a lot of inconvenience when trying to do it artificially.

By the way thanks, I didn't know such thing was against any law.

Oops! 😗😗

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Tiia3y ago

Mario Lemus
Yes YouTube is really harsh against it. If you get caught 3 times then you lose your account (I think including access to your Mail etc. And you won't be able to monetize through google again. No matter on which account) They also regularly scan every video for copyright infringement.

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