[Python]Youtube view bot

[Ragehottie]

I was with my cousin recently and he does Youtube and whatever. Then he shows me this guys who has been view botting. I thought it was a pretty hard process, but evidently all you have to do is refresh the page every couple of seconds. I tried it and it works. BUT, it makes my computer slow when I have ~10 browsers auto-refreshing. So I tried to write a simple, multi-threaded program in python. Long story short, it didn't work. Basically, I need to know how to get a full webpage. Using raw sockets preferably.

[techb]

To just view the page, you use Sockets to connect and Read the page.


Now with viewing the video, and I'm assuming to see the ads on the video to get ad views and make money is a diff story. YouTube's API may be in order.


But to answer the question of just viewing the page, connect to it via a raw socket and read the content. Much like you would with the programming/timed challenges on something like SecurityOverrides site.

[proxx]

This isnt as easy as it all seems.
Youtube is very serious when it comes to botting and alike.
First of all doing this from one IP address will get you banned etc etc.
Nor will it add more than 300 views , which I believe is the maximum number of views per IP address.

Then comes to next problem; Google keeps track of 'all' the proxies on the web.
These are blacklisted etc etc.
So basically they will know what it is you are doing.

There are more advanced methods though.

[Ragehottie]

Proxies are not the problem. I have like ~10 people to do it. I just wanted to know how the youtube view counter works.


Thanks for you input