Youtube shorts history delete via web app (python + firefox + selenium) & ofc chatgpt

shorts_hist_rm-rf.py

import time

from selenium import webdriver

# from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By


# Path to your existing Firefox profile (get path using about:profiles in Firefox)
profile_path = "/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/wjobkgkx.default-release-1234567890123/"

# Set up Firefox options
options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
# options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("-profile")
options.add_argument(profile_path)

# Initialize the WebDriver with the specified profile
# service = Service('/home/user/bin/geckodriver')  # Update this path to your geckodriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)

# Now you can use the driver to interact with Firefox
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/feed/history")

driver.implicitly_wait(3)  # Wait up to 3 seconds for elements to be found

# Scroll and find elements
while True:
    # Find all parent elements
    parent_elements = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "ytd-reel-shelf-renderer")

    if not parent_elements:
        print("No more 'ytd-reel-shelf-renderer' elements found.")
        break  # Exit the loop if no parent elements are found

    # Iterate through each parent element to find the Next button
    for parent in parent_elements:
        while True:
            child_elements = parent.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "ytd-reel-item-renderer")
            if not child_elements:
                child_elements = parent.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "ytm-shorts-lockup-view-model")

            for child in child_elements:
                vtitle = child.text
                if vtitle:
                    print(f"[-] {vtitle}")
                    # Find the button with aria-label="Action menu" within the current child element
                    action_menu_button = child.find_element(
                        By.XPATH, ".//button"
                    )
                    # print("Found 'Action menu' button in:", child)

                    # Click the Action menu button
                    action_menu_button.click()
                    # time.sleep(1)  # Wait for the menu to open

                    # Now find the tp-yt-paper-item/yt-formatted-string with the text 'Remove from watch history'
                    remove_from_watch_history = driver.find_element(
                        By.XPATH,
                        ".//span[text()='Remove from watch history']",
                    )
                    # print("Found 'Remove from watch history' item.")

                    # Click on the 'Remove from watch history' item
                    remove_from_watch_history.click()
                    # time.sleep(1)  # Wait for the action to complete

            try:
                # Find the button with aria-label="Next" within the current parent element
                next_button = parent.find_element(
                    By.XPATH, ".//button[@aria-label='Next']"
                )
                # print("Found 'Next' button in:", parent)

                # Click the button
                next_button.click()
                # time.sleep(1)  # Wait for a second after clicking to allow content to load
            except Exception as e:
                # print("Next button not found in this parent or it has disappeared:", e)
                break  # Exit the inner loop if the button is not found

    # Scroll down to the bottom of the page
    driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.documentElement.scrollHeight);")

    # Wait for new content to load
    time.sleep(2)  # Adjust the sleep time as necessary

    # Check for new 'ytd-reel-shelf-renderer' elements
    new_parent_elements = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "ytd-reel-shelf-renderer")
    if len(new_parent_elements) == len(parent_elements):
        print("No new 'ytd-reel-shelf-renderer' elements found after scrolling.")
        break  # Exit the loop if no new parent elements are loaded

# close the driver when done
driver.quit()