Find when a Youtube video was uploaded using Selenium (python)-CodePudding

I'm writing a script in python to go to a url that will show new YouTube videos, I'm wanting to find a video that says it was uploaded "3 minutes ago" and then print something in my console. Example of mins ago

I found this piece of Javascript code from a while ago, I'm not sure if this would be possible to be translated into Python code or not though. It finds a video that was uploaded from 3 minutes and under, meaning if a video was uploaded 2, 1 mins ago, or seconds ago, it will click on it.

var Link = iimGetLastExtract(2);
if (Link.indexOf("&") > -1) Link = Link.split("&")[0];

if (iimGetLastExtract(1).trim() == "2 minutes ago" || iimGetLastExtract(1).trim() == "1 minute ago" || iimGetLastExtract().indexOf("second") > -1)

Does anyone know how I could do this in Python? My code is below (not working since I don't know how to do this).

import undetected_chromedriver as uc
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

find_timeago = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="metadata-line"]/span[2]')

while True:
    if find_timeago == "3 minutes ago":
        print('found video from 3 mins ago')
    elif find_timeago == "1 minute ago":
        print('found video from 3 mins ago')
    elif find_timeago == "seconds ago": 
        print('found video from seconds ago')
    else:
        time.sleep(2)
        driver.refresh()

CodePudding user response：

If your code for finding the span is correct, the code you should use is

find_timeago = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="metadata-line"]/span[2]').text

instead of

find_timeago = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="metadata-line"]/span[2]')

P.S. You nearly always want .text or .find_element behind the result

And(though I don't know about YouTube), you don't need to use selenium, requests with headers is nearly always enough.

CodePudding user response：

if your js code is correct you can simply use it without having to translate it to python

js code

var Link = iimGetLastExtract(2);
if (Link.indexOf("&") > -1) Link = Link.split("&")[0];

if (iimGetLastExtract(1).trim() == "2 minutes ago" || iimGetLastExtract(1).trim() == "1 minute ago" || iimGetLastExtract().indexOf("second") > -1){
return iimGetLastExtract(1).trim()}

python code

x = driver.execute_script(js_code)
print(x)

x should hold what ever value evaluated to correct