{"id":150,"date":"2008-03-31T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T06:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/31\/macosxhintscom-view-higher-quality-videos-on-youtube\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T06:50:42","slug":"macosxhintscom-view-higher-quality-videos-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/macosxhintscom-view-higher-quality-videos-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"macosxhints.com &#8211; View higher quality videos on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macosxhints.com\/article.php?story=20080316111042524\">macosxhints.com &#8211; View higher quality videos on YouTube<\/a>: &#8221;Many people are using a trick to view any YouTube video in high-quality &#8212; simply append &#038;fmt=18 to the end of the URL. This is a job for AppleScript! Here are two simple versions; the first, for for OmniWeb:\ntell application &#8217;OmniWeb&#8217;\n  set current_url to the address of active tab of browser 1\n  set current_url to current_url &#038; &#8217;&#038;fmt=18&#8217;\n  set the address of active tab of browser 1 to current_url\nend tell\n&#8230;and the second, for Safari:\ntell application &#8217;Safari&#8217;\n  set current_url to the URL of current tab of window 1\n  set current_url to current_url &#038; &#8217;&#038;fmt=18&#8217;\n  set URL of current tab of window 1 to current_url\nend tell\nThese can be placed in ~\/Library \u00c2\u00bb Scripts \u00c2\u00bb Applications \u00c2\u00bb AppName for easy access via the Script menu. \n\n[robg adds: Queue user fds suggests that a JavaScript bookmarklet may work better, and it will work in any browser. Create a new bookmark for any site (or a blank bookmark), then change its URL to this: javascript:window.location+=&#8221;&#038;fmt=18&#8243;;. Choose that bookmark while viewing a YouTube video, and you should get the high quality version.]&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>macosxhints.com &#8211; View higher quality videos on YouTube: &#8221;Many people are using a trick to view any YouTube video in high-quality &#8212; simply append &#038;fmt=18 to the end of the URL. This is a job for AppleScript! Here are two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/macosxhintscom-view-higher-quality-videos-on-youtube\/\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundgrens.se\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}