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Creates a Firefox browser instance and saves the transcript of the YT video
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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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