Resolving YouTube search links

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I started looking into Selenium but I want the script to be OS-independent and Selenium only works on Linux

Look at web-scraping part-2 and search forum there is a lot info about this.

I'll probably use a YouTube API wrapper when I get back to this.

Can use YouTube API directly with Requests.
This is the same as would enter a python in the search-box on youtube.com.

import requests

api_key = 'xxxyour-keyxxx'
search = 'python'
how_many_hit = 10

response = requests.get(f'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet\
               &maxResults={how_many_hit}&q={search}&type=video&key={api_key}')

hits = response.json()
print(hits['items'][0]['snippet']['title'])
print(hits['items'][0]['snippet']['channelId'])

Output:
Learn Python - Full Course for Beginners [Tutorial]
UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ