YouTube automation with python and selenium

Question

I want to automate youtube with selenium and python completely. the following tasks are to be accomplished. the problem is with points number 4 and 6. how to handle them?

open youtube
search any video
play any video
pause the video
like dislike the video.

play the next video

 driver = webdriver.Chrome()
 driver.get('https://www.youtube.com/')

 Search_Box = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search"]')   #search bar
 speak("opend sir what shoud i search ?")
 query=takecommand().lower()
 # query=input('data ?') 
 Search_Box.send_keys(query)
 Search_Button=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search-icon-legacy"]') #clicked search button
 Search_Button.click()
 speak("searched now which one ?")


 query=takecommand().lower()
 # query=input('data ?')
 if "first" in query:
     video_number = 1
     select_video1=driver.find_element_by_xpath(f"(//a[@id='video-title'])[{video_number}]").click()
     # select_video1.click()
 elif 'second' in query:
     video_number = 2
     select_video2=driver.find_element_by_xpath(f"(//a[@id='video-title'])[{video_number}]").click()
     time.sleep(5)
     speak('pausing video')
     select_video2=driver.find_element_by_css_selector('movie_player > div.ytp-chrome-bottom > div.ytp-chrome-controls > div.ytp-left-controls > button').click()  #this was for pause,but didnt worked here

@Codelt 'select_video2=driver.find_element_by_xpath(f"(//a[@id='video-title'])[{video_number}]").click() ' for this how can i send k (stop) button ? simple send keys is not working — Abu Bakker Hashmi
– Abu Bakker Hashmi, Commented May 9, 2021 at 10:24

JD2775 · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-09 16:10:33Z

Try these...

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# won't work unless you are logged in
like_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"(//yt-icon[@class='style-scope ytd-toggle-button-renderer'])[4]")))
like_btn.click()

# won't work unless you are logged in
dislike_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"(//yt-icon[@class='style-scope ytd-toggle-button-renderer'])[5]")))
dislike_btn.click()

pause_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[@title='Pause (k)']")))
pause_btn.click()

# comment out to test pause btn, otherwise it happens so fast you don't notice
play_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[@title='Play (k)']")))
play_btn.click()

mute_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[@aria-label='Mute (m)']")))
mute_btn.click()

# comment out to test mute_btn, otherwise it happens so fast you don't notice it
unmute_btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[@aria-label='Unmute (m)']")))
unmute_btn.click()

Prophet · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-09 10:11:04Z

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To play or pause video you can click the play / pause button located by the following css_selector: button.ytp-play-button
To go to the next video click the following element a.ytp-next-button. again, it's css-selector

answered May 9, 2021 at 10:11

Prophet

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Abu Bakker Hashmi Over a year ago

tried the following but didn't work pause=driver.find_element_by_css_selector('button.ytp-play-button').click() '

Prophet Over a year ago

This button appears not immediately, only after the video is loaded and started playing. So you need to put a wait before it

Abu Bakker Hashmi Over a year ago

put a timer of 5 seconds after playing the video, but didn't work, and don't give error

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