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Creates a Firefox browser instance and saves the transcript of the YT video
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
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def main():
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 3)
presence = EC.presence_of_element_located
visible = EC.visibility_of_element_located
# load url with video
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWPMSSsVdPk")
# play the video
wait.until(visible((By.ID, "video-title")))
# accepting cookies
driver.find_element_by_css_selector(
"ytd-button-renderer.style-scope:nth-child(2) > a:nth-child(1)").click()
# click 3 dots menu
driver.find_element_by_css_selector(
"ytd-menu-renderer.ytd-video-primary-info-renderer > yt-icon-button:nth-child(2) > button:nth-child(1)").click()
# click transcript
driver.find_element_by_css_selector(
"tp-yt-paper-item.ytd-menu-service-item-renderer").click()
# wait for transcript panel to load
wait.until(visible(
(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "ytd-engagement-panel-section-list-renderer.style-scope")))
# save html source of page
with open("yt.html", 'w') as f:
f.write(driver.page_source)
driver.close()
return get_transcript("yt.html")
def get_transcript(page):
with open(page, 'r') as f:
html = f.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
lines = soup.find_all(
'div', class_='cue style-scope ytd-transcript-body-renderer')
f = open('transcript.txt', 'w')
for line in lines:
# remove whitespace at beginning of line.text
f.write(line.text.strip() + '\n')
f.close()
# python running code
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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