Returning the URL's as a list from a YouTube search query [closed]

Question

How would one create a list containing the URL's of the videos from a normal YouTube text search?

Answer 1

I wrote you a quick script to do this. Replace textToSearch with your query. It pulls the results from the first page of YouTube results using urllib, and prints all the links of the videos by parsing the page using BeautifulSoup. Let me know if you have any questions.

import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

textToSearch = 'hello world'
query = urllib.parse.quote(textToSearch)
url = "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" + query
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
html = response.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
for vid in soup.findAll(attrs={'class':'yt-uix-tile-link'}):
    print('https://www.youtube.com' + vid['href'])

this gives the output:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al2DFQEZl4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRKqlw0DaDI
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sQEQkMDBjw