How to perform motion detect using selenium webdriver? - selenium

Question

So I want to automate youtube videos. so list of API available and also selenium have support for flash objects. My worry is that how can I check video is playing?. Like if I can perform motion detect on video I can pass or fail script accordingly. so can we achieve similar using selenium? or selenium have different approach to do this. Many thanks

Answer 1

I would check that when they click on the 'play' button it changes to the 'pause' icon; something like this:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.PageFactory;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
public class Youtube {
public WebDriver driver;
private String url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfhjkfocRR0";
public Youtube() {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\SeleniumServer\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
//driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get(url);
}
public void waitFor(int wait){
try {
Thread.sleep(wait);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public boolean isYoutubePlaying(){
try {
//wait 4 secs for Youtube video to load
waitFor(6000);
WebElement playPauseButton=driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("div.ytp-button")).get(0);
//video is not playing here.
if(playPauseButton.getAttribute("aria-label").equals("Play")){
System.out.println("This Youtube video wasn't playing but we clicked on it to play the video.");
//so we click on the play button to play the video then we return true;
playPauseButton.click();
return true;
}else{
//video should be playing but let's double-check
if(playPauseButton.getAttribute("aria-label").equals("Pause")){
System.out.println("Youtube video is already playing.");
return true;
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
//only return false if either of the 2 cases above fail.
return false;
}
}//end class
And to run this code simply instantiate it like so:
Youtube yt=new Youtube();
yt.isYoutubePlaying();