Getting The Title of a Youtube Video Using Python/Selenium

Question

I am trying to scrape the title of a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBBtxuHoV_g) with the following python script. When I run my current code:

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBBtxuHoV_g")

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
     EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME,"ytd-video-primary- 
info-renderer")))
print(element.text)

The output gives me

 Bryan Cranston, Kanye West, Will Smith SHOCKED by Magician David Blaine
 458,317 views
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How do I change my code so it just returns the title of the video? Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

If you only want to get that title without using any hardcoded index then the following should work:

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

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBBtxuHoV_g")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

element = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"h1.title yt-formatted-string"))).text
print(element)
driver.quit()

Result:

Bryan Cranston, Kanye West, Will Smith SHOCKED by Magician David Blaine