[FIXED] How to search and play a video on YouTube using Selenium in Python?

Issue

I want to search and play a video using Selenium in Python.
Here is the code:

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()
driver.get(www.youtube.com)

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

# Search for the video.
time.sleep(1)
wait.until(visible((By.NAME, "search_query")))
driver.find_element_by_name("search_query").click()
driver.find_element_by_name("search_query").send_keys(video)
driver.find_element_by_id("search-icon-legacy").click()

# Play the video.
wait.until(visible((By.ID, "video-title")))
driver.find_element_by_id("video-title").click()

But the problem is, it plays the first video on the home page before it completes searching.
Can you guys suggest how to play the video?

Solution

You could bypass the need of starting off at the homepage completely by appending the desired search query to the search_query parameter :)

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
driver.get('https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={}'.format(str(video))

# play the video
wait.until(visible((By.ID, "video-title")))
driver.find_element_by_id("video-title").click()

Answered By - David S