Message: element not interactable Error While Sending Keys [search_bar.send_keys(course_name)] To Search Bar Of Youtube using selenium python

I tried Most of the solution of StackOverflow but didn’t work for me I am trying to send some course name to youtube search bar using selenium python it works fine before but now it gives this error while doing this And search_bar.send_keys(course_name) works fine for other websites but not in YT

Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "src/gevent/greenlet.py", line 766, in gevent._greenlet.Greenlet.run
      File "/home/sh4d0w/PycharmProjects/AutoMate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/eel/__init__.py", line 257, in _process_message
        return_val = _exposed_functions[message['name']](*message['args'])
      File "/home/sh4d0w/PycharmProjects/AutoMate/SmallTalk.py", line 72, in SingleQueryinputValue
        RecommendCourse.getUdacityCourse(str(val))
      File "/home/sh4d0w/PycharmProjects/AutoMate/RecommendCourse.py", line 160, in getUdacityCourse
        getYoutubeCourse(course_name, driver)
      File "/home/sh4d0w/PycharmProjects/AutoMate/RecommendCourse.py", line 98, in getYoutubeCourse
        search_bar.send_keys(course_name)
      File "/home/sh4d0w/PycharmProjects/AutoMate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 479, in send_keys
        'value': keys_to_typing(value)})
      File "/home/sh4d0w/PycharmProjects/AutoMate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 633, in _execute
        return self._parent.execute(command, params)
      File "/home/sh4d0w/PycharmProjects/AutoMate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
        self.error_handler.check_response(response)
      File "/home/sh4d0w/PycharmProjects/AutoMate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
        raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
    selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable
      (Session info: chrome=81.0.4044.129)

    2020-04-29T08:00:02Z <Greenlet at 0x7fd2089c67b8: _process_message({'call': 2.1877049007713376, 'name': 'SingleQueryi, <geventwebsocket.websocket.WebSocket object at 0x7)> failed with ElementNotInteractableException

Code sample

option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.add_argument("window-size=1200x600");
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/bin/chromedriver', options=option)
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com")
getYoutubeCourse(course_name, driver)

getYoutubeCourse() function body

def getYoutubeCourse(course_name, driver):
    time.sleep(2)

    search_bar = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search"]')
    search_bar.send_keys(course_name)

    search_bar_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
        (By.XPATH, '//*[@id="search-icon-legacy"]')))
    search_bar_button.click()
    ......

then after this, the logic of scraping the youtube links is there I also tried web driver wait and all, and my drivers are also up to date

Please help I am new in python and selenium

Answer

There is 3 elements found by xpath : //*[@id="search"]

You have to correct it to

//input[@id="search"]

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