Right now I am trying to figure out how to take a row of data, maybe like 50 entries max, and enter it individually into a search bar. But first I need to understand the beginning concepts so I want to do a practice program that could take info from an Excel sheet and enter into a Google search or YouTube, for example.
My problem is there seems to be no resource on how to do this for beginners. All posts I have read are either parts of the whole problem or not related to actually using a search bar but instead creating one. Even then every post I read has 100 plug-ins I could possibly add.
I'm just looking for a consistent explanation to where I can grasp how I can manipulate code in order to use a search bar function.
To perform a web search (Google, YouTube or whatever) from a program you need to execute the search, either by building up and calling an appropriate search URL or by making a call to an API provided by that site.
The article 'Python - Search for YouTube video' provides a code sample and explanation of how to generate and call a URL to perform a YouTube keyword search. You could do something similar for a Google search by analysing the URL from the result of a Google search, or try searching for 'Python submit google search url'.
The above approach is simplistic and relies on the URL structure for a particular site staying the same. A more complex, reliable and flexible approach is to use the API. For YouTube: