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Video URL of first Youtube search result.
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first_yootube.rb
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
puts "Enter your search terms: "
terms = gets.chomp
terms = terms.split(" ").join("+")
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=#{terms}"))
video_thumbnails = doc.at_css('.yt-thumb-default').css('.yt-thumb-clip')
first_video_thumbnail = video_thumbnails.children[1]
img_url = first_video_thumbnail.attributes["src"].value
vid_id = img_url.split("/")[4]
vid_url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=#{vid_id}"
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