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[Oddysey]

Dave;

Not to jump bad on you, but I think you've got an error in your first code snippet. To wit, you look to Match on this URL:

Code:

"(www.|m.|)youtube.com[^/]+/((watch*v=|v/)(?+{11})\1)

and then you use the $JUMP to go to the same thing, ie:

Code:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=\1)"

That's ending up with the same result as the user started with, a /watch?v= both before and after the filtration.

I think what you intended was to, more or less, force YouTube's embed code, which does indeed cause the entire browser window to contain only the video in question. For your $JUMP instruction, may I suggest this as an alternative:

Code:

www.youtube.com/v/\1)"

Alternatively, some folks don't like the look of an entire browser window showing just the video (unless they intentionally hit FullScreen). For them, there's Quietube. That site is a screen scraper that strips out all, and I mean *all* the non-video stuff. The code for that would be:

Code:

quietube6.com/v.php/www.youtube.com/watch?v=\1)"

Different strokes for different folks, and all that.


Further:

I get your desire to capture a URL for downloading, but why go to the trouble of using Proxo's Log Window? ??? Merely right-clicking on any YouTube video will bring up the context menu where the very first choice is "Copy video URL". That goes directly to the clipboard, where any decent Download Manager worth its salt will be monitoring for this kind of thing.

Additionally, most format conversion programs (*.avi to *.mp4, that kind of thing) have a way for the user to enter a URL, and the converter will automatically download the source material, then do the conversion, all in the same operation (insofar as the user is concerned). Since we just captured the video URL from the right-click context menu, we're all set on that score.

But again, we all do things differently, so it's nice to know that there's always more than one way to skin a cat. Thanks for the tips.

HTH





Oddysey