This is how I hacked YouTube Thumbnail

It’s 1am, I’m chilling on YouTube watching MrBeast when I came across the thumbnail below.

A lightbulb moment. How on earth does this update? I really can’t see that someone updates it manually.

As a developer I thought how can I upload a thumbnail every X minutes and pull the views.

So this was my challenge to be completed before 4am and here is the plan :

You can follow along as on the YouTube video above.

To do this I used Python, Pillow, Google APIs and the YouTube API.

Both Jimmy Donaldson and MrBeast both use this technic to get more views.

1 — The Plan.
5 — Getting Started.
6 — Making the thumbnail.
7 — Fetching the YouTube views count.
8 — Uploading to YouTube.
9 — While loop to run in the background.
10 — Rounding up.

Halfway through my challenge, I found a GitHub that helped me here it is: : https://github.com/eriktor/youtube-a...

I hope you enjoy it’s a long ride but worth the end results.