How to search and open a Youtube video with selenium?

Question

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

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 3)
presence = EC.presence_of_element_located
visible = EC.visibility_of_element_located

# Navigate to url with video being appended to search_query
video = 'dragon city best hack tool'
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" + str(video))

# play the video
driver.find_elements_by_xpath('/html/body/ytd-app/div/ytd-page-manager/ytd-search/div[1]/ytd-two-column-search-results-renderer/div/ytd-section-list-renderer/div[2]/ytd-item-section-renderer/div[3]/ytd-shelf-renderer/div[1]/div[2]/ytd-vertical-list-renderer/div[1]/ytd-video-renderer[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/h3/a').click()
time.sleep(20)

Answer 1

It's returning more than 1 element and that's why you cannot perform a click. Try to use driver.find_element... or elements[0] to get a single object instead of list of objects

Answer 2

thank you that was really helpful

Answer 3

What's the error message?

Answer 4

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Projects\Python\Yotube Views\main.py", line 21, in <module>
driver.find_elements_by_xpath('/html/body/ytd-app/div/ytd-page-manager/ytd-search/div[1]/ytd-two-column-search-results-renderer/div/ytd-section-list-renderer/div[2]/ytd-item-section-renderer/div[3]/ytd-shelf-renderer/div[1]/div[2]/ytd-vertical-list-renderer/div[1]/ytd-video-renderer[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/h3/a').click()
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click'

i want to know if is any way to click to video after you search on youtube