[Python] Play YouTube video until finished

I am using a Selenium to code python script to search and play a YouTube video.

This is my code:

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

# Defining video name
video_name = "4k art"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
driver.maximize_window()

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 3)
presence = EC.presence_of_element_located
visible = EC.visibility_of_element_located

# Navigate to url with video being appended to search_query
driver.get('https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={}'.format(str(video_name)))

# play the video
wait.until(visible((By.ID, "video-title")))
driver.find_element(By.ID, "video-title").click()


# Wait for video to end


So, everything works fine, but I would like to know what is the best way to have the script wait until the video is finished before finishing? I saw different ways to do so using YouTube API or using Selenium with elements appearing. Is there a preferred way to do it?

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