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Udemy course enroller: Get paid udemy courses for free

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I looked into making a udemy course once but it wasnt even close to worth it even if the course was a hit. The platform takes about 2/3rds of your revenue

> Sales that do not occur through an instructor promotion: instructors receive 37% of the revenue for any Udemy sales

(Instructor promotion means the student entered a coupon code provided by the instructor via that instructors own off-site marketing)

https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229605008-Instru...

1/3 of a big basket is still better than 100% of a small one. Udemy does help with visibility, and if you rank high for certain keywords, it could be worth it. You don’t exactly need to do more work for every new subscriber you get too

If you look at top course makers, you can see how many copies they sold and estimate their income. If the course takes more than a few months to create, they’re often making far less than they would just working the job that uses those skills. This makes it financially non-feasible for 99% of people to create courses full time unless you have downtime and no other income opportunity

Also, when people are outraged by the 30% App Store taxes, why is 63% acceptable? That’s insane

The entire gig economy works like this: almost nobody can live off of it but the platforms push people to try while getting rich themselves

Seems a bit illegal. Also do not run random scripts from the internet which control your browser. For all we know, they could be scraping your own sensitive data.

It's legal to scrape public websites.

And if you can read Python you have nothing to fear

Read the source before you blindly run anything!

the /scrapers/ folder in particular e.g.

https://github.com/aapatre/Automatic-Udemy-Course-Enroller-G...

If it was closed source or if you are ultra paranoid there is plenty more you can do for safety

e.g.

- run the code in a disposable VM

- run the code one step at a time, maybe in debug mode, or a Jupyter notebook for example

- Wireshark

etc etc

This is a clever hack. However, I'm guessing that if the coupon sites you're scraping notice a lot of scraping activity, they'll start hiding the coupons behind CAPTCHAs to block the scrapers.

I think the coupon sites make money as affiliates, so as long as the affiliate code stays in the URL, scraping tools would increase the chance the coupon sites see affiliate revenue.

> This post may have affiliate link & we may get small commission if you make a purchase.

They’ve amassed 4K courses, how many have they finished? You could alternatively amass 4K always-free courses, it’s be equally pointless.

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