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

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Hey! Selenium scraping youtube yt-dlp is tricky, but here’s a hack: use `--force-generic-extractor` in yt-dlp to bypass some of the weird rate limits.

For dynamic content, I’ve found that using `execute_script` to wait for specific elements works better than random sleeps.

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

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