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How can I click the "SORT BY" button and select "Newest first" item on YouTube video page?

As a beginner to Python, I've been trying to click the "SORT BY" button and select "Newest first" item on YouTube video page (Like the following picture shows). enter image description here I tried with the following code.

! pip install selenium
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome('D:\chromedrive\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioNng23DkIM")
!pip install pynput
from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller
mouse = Controller()
mouse.scroll(0, -5)
time.sleep(1)
#click "SORT BY" button
driver.find_element('div#trigger.style-scope.tp-yt-paper-menu-button').click()
#click "Newest first" button
driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('#dropdown').click()

However, driver.find_element('div#trigger.style-scope.tp-yt-paper-menu-button').click() and driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('#dropdown').click() do not work. It kept showing the error of Message: invalid argument: invalid locator . If anyone knows how to solve it, please help me.

Solution

  • try below code :

    wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.style-scope.yt-dropdown-menu:nth-of-type(1)"))).click()
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[text()='Newest first']"))).click()

    Imports :

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