Failing To Get Duration Of Youtube Video Using Xpath

I wanted to write something that would return me the video duration of a youtube link. So I found requests and lxml and started out following this guide. Here's the setup: import r

Solution 1:

span[@class="ytp-time-duration"]

this span tag is generated by JavaScript, and it will not returned by requests, requests just return the HTML code

Solution 2:

For YouTube the Xpath was not consistent. I got two different Xpaths (these are the 2 Xpaths I got for capturing the Video Duration)

//*[@id='movie_player']/div[5]/div/div/div[5]/button/div[1]

//*[@id="movie_player"]/div[26]/div[2]/div[1]/div/span[3]

Tried the option of finding the Element by Class name

FindElement(By.ClassName("ytp-time-duration"))

This worked always.

string VideoDuration = firfxdrivr.FindElement(By.ClassName("ytp-time-duration")).GetAttribute("textContent");

Console.WriteLine(VideoDuration);

Output: 19:18