Resolving YouTube search links

[pythonnewbie138]

Ok I've spent hours sifting through the libraries and I'm still failing. I've simplified the script based on one of the libraries I found to help identify the issue.

It looks like the vids object is not working as expected. I've commented the response I get with attempts to print at various points.

Since vids ends up empty, how can I tell if the issue lies with my code or if there are no matching results in the soup? Or both lol.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import requests

base = "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="
qstring = "life"

r = requests.get(base + qstring)

page = r.text
soup = bs(page, 'html.parser')
# print(soup) #prints html
vids = soup.findAll('a', attrs={'class':'yt-uix-tile-link'}, limit=5)
# print(vids) prints []
videolist = []

for v in vids:
    tmp = 'https://www.youtube.com' + v['href']
    videolist.append(tmp)
    inc = 1
    inc += 1
    if inc > 5:
        break

print(videolist) # prints []

EDIT: Looks like this task can't be accomplished in this way due to JS being involved. Will look for alternative solutions.