Simplest version:
I would like to write a macro that when I am watching a youtube video, I can log the URL to a simple text file as historical record
More complicated
Add video title, some short comment, 1-5 stars etc , export into tap forms. etc
The simplest solution I could think of is this. It is triggered whenever the URL changes, which could either be because you clicked on a link, or switched to a different tab. So it might catch a little more than you wanted. But it's simple. You will need to have a folder called ~/data/ which is where I put most of my data files. The other data could also be added by including some user input.
Log all URL changes Macro (v11.0.2)
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There are plenty of browser-targeting tokens listed on the Tokens page, including ones to gran the URL. And the Actions page has "Append text to a file", which sounds like what you want.
Video title can normally be proxied by the page title (also listed on the Tokens page), and you could easily add some notes and a star rating via "Prompt for User Input" or the recently-added "Prompt for Snippet". "Tap forms" I've not heard off, but if it can import tab- or CSV-delimited data you could bounce what you've gathered through a temp file -- or you could just macro the "manual method" of adding the data.
Give it a go and see how you get on. But remember the Forum guidelines -- if you spend more than 5 minutes banging your head against a problem, ask!
This is one of those problems where I'd be really tempted to use a SQLite database. You could store the URL and all the data you want, get it out in a neat report format, and check for duplicates before updating the list, etc.
It'd only take me a few months to get it working perfectly, then YouTube would change something and break the entire thing.
Yea, a text file is the way to go :).
-rob.
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