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So I am watching some videos on a webpage where there is a playlist. The problem with the playlist is that it doesnt "auto-play". SO everytime one video ends I have to manually go to the playlist and click on the "next" link.

Is there any way to automate this? SOmething like:

1.go to this page 2.select the active item in the list(which contains the video duration) 3.extract the video duration from the active item and let the video play 4.After video duration, ex: 4min, click on the next element of the list and let it play for the video duration... ...

I am confortable with python and jquery. using the google chrome console is possible to achive this? Or any external script that I can run? I have also seen Imacros but it records specific itens, and I need something dynamic/procedual. Like find the next element of the active selected item.

Thank you in advance guys.

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You can use Selenium to automate a variety of browsers.

There are Python bindings for Selenium in PyPI - you can see some examples of the code on the linked page, for example:

  • open a new Firefox browser
  • load the Yahoo homepage
  • search for "seleniumhq"
  • close the browser
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get('http://www.yahoo.com') assert 'Yahoo!' in browser.title elem = browser.find_element_by_name('p') # Find the search box elem.send_keys('seleniumhq' + Keys.RETURN) browser.quit()
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Thanks for the input DNA. Just a quick question: Is it possible to tell the code to hold for 4min(video duration) and then click on the next link? Thanks
You can just use time.sleep(). See also selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/waits.html for ways to wait for certain conditions to occur.

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