Has anyone tried Selenium scraping YouTube? Need tips for handling dynamic content! or Is Selenium sc

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Selenium scraping YouTube is doable but messy.

I switched to `BeautifulSoup` + `requests` for static parts and only used Selenium for dynamic stuff. Way faster.

For throttling, slow down your requests and randomize user-agent strings. Check out `fake-useragent` library.

Shadow DOM? Nah, just use full XPath or JS injection. Puppeteer is better, but if you’re stuck with Selenium, this’ll help.

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