Is Selenium Scraping YouTube Still Reliable? Any Recent Challenges? or Best Practices for Selenium Sc

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Selenium scraping youtube is a black hole of frustration. Switched to Playwright with stealth mode—way fewer blocks.

For dynamic content, use `page.waitForSelector()` with timeouts. And rotate IPs EVERY request if you can.

Free tip: Scrape at weird hours (3AM-ish). Less bot detection.

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