Trouble Finding Element In Selenium With Python

I have been trying to collect a list of live channels/viewers on Youtube Gaming. I am using selenium with Python to force the website to scroll down the page so it loads more that

Solution 1:

The name id not in the <ytg-formatted-string> tag, its in one of it descendants. Try

meta_data.find_element_by_css_selector('.style-scope.ytg-formatted-string.x-scope.ytg-nav-endpoint-2 > a')

Or with xpath

meta_data.find_element_by_xpath('//ytg-nav-endpoint[@class="style-scope ytg-formatted-string x-scope ytg-nav-endpoint-2"]/a')

Solution 2:

This will get all the names, even if your xpath worked using video-metadata would not get all the names, the id is repeated per div for each user so you would need find_elements and to iterate over the returned elements:

names = dr.find_elements_by_css_selector("a.style-scope.ytg-nav-endpoint[href^='/channel/']")
print([name.get_attribute("text") for name in names])

Which gives you:

['NinjaNation Gaming', 'DURX DANIEL', 'DEMON', 'Perfection', 'The one and only jd', 'Violator Games', 'KingLuii718', 'NinjaNation Gaming', 'DURX DANIEL', 'DEMON', 'Perfection']