I recently completed my two year anniversary working day in and day out being some what independent to an employer over at saltyslopes.com. For the most part, everything is working out great, good steady amount of projects and fairly good traction with new projects released. This year I want to take on a new project on how to run and create an online business.
You know the one that I’m talking about where you only work 4 hours a week? Is that even possible? What would you do with the rest of your time?
I tweeted out a couple of days ago:
Who will be interested in a vlog series on how to run a software business let that be #SAAS or #Consulting
— Rick (@rick4470) February 19, 2016
I got a good response from my followers, seems like a lot of you are interested not only on the software part of things but also the business.
As a way to kick this off, I decided to revive one of my old projects. KnowRick.com, this is where I am going to be posting videos, posts, email list all related to the business side.
Why not here? I want to keep CWI strictly for software-related content.
In the process of this, I created a new Youtube Channel, where I will be posting all of the videos.
Now the problem is that I have 3 Youtube Channels, which is a nightmare to view all my subscriptions. In this write up I will be showing you how you can import all of your Youtube Subscriptions to a single channel with a single script written with the help of JSecademy.
Step 1: Download Subscriptions via Subscription Manager
Step 2: Create a new Nodejs project
Step 3: Create a simple JavaScript application to parse channels and create a new tab in chrome for each of the channels.
Wait a second you can automate this even more! With the help of the YoutTube API. Yes I can automate this even more, but the entire process is not to move every single channel. I want to reevaluate some of my subscriptions that is why I’m only running chrome in a single tab then I will have the option to agree with the subscription or not.
If you notice the warning // Safe Break only remove this when you are ready!; I put this for a reason. If you have 100’s of subscriptions this could cause chrome to overflow it’s memory bank and completely crash.
You can bypass this if your subscription base is small enough or you can create a counter and go 10+ at a time.
That’s all talk to you next time.
YouTube has a limit of subscribing limit of 70 channels per 24 hours.
Rick H.
I always had a passion for the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and I knew I wanted to do something to make a difference in the world. I just didn’t know where to start. I was an immigrant in a new country, grew up in a tough environment, and wasn’t sure how… Read More
