Best Practices for Selenium Scraping YouTube with yt-dlp: Any Tips or Pitfalls to Avoid?

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Yo, selenium scraping youtube yt-dlp is a beast, but here’s a tip: try using `--extractor-args` in yt-dlp to bypass some of the rate limits. It’s not perfect, but it helps.

For dynamic content, I’ve found that injecting JavaScript to wait for specific elements to load works better than relying on Selenium alone.

Also, check out Puppeteer as an alternative to Selenium. It’s faster and handles dynamic content better imo.

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