I want to scrape all the comments of a YouTube video using selenium but able to scrape only first 20. Don't getting what's wrong with the following code -
imports required
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
initialisation
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etzmAZ7oiz0'
driver.get(url)
time.sleep(3)
final_comment_list = []
author_list = []
comment_list = []
while loop for scrolling down the page
last_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
html = driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, 'html')
while True:
print("Scroll down to bottom")
# Scroll down to bottom
html.send_keys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN)
# Wait to load the page
time.sleep(5)
# find author name and author comment
try:
authors_list_el = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR,
'#author-text.yt-simple-endpoint.style-scope.ytd-comment-renderer span.style-scope.ytd-comment-renderer')
author_list = [x.text for x in authors_list_el]
except:
print(f"not able to find author for {url} video")
try:
comments = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#content.style-scope.ytd-expander')
comment_list = [x.text for x in comments]
except:
print(f"not able to find comments for {url} video")
# creating dictionary object and adding to list
obj1 = dict(author_list=author_list, comment_list=comment_list)
final_comment_list.append(obj1)
# Calculate new scroll height and compare with last scroll height
new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
if new_height == last_height:
break
else:
last_height = new_height
printing the result
print(final_comment_list)
print(len(author_list))