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Applescript to pause and play youtube videos using Alfred (In Chrome)
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First go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and request the html5 player (click the button) | |
Then download Alfred from the app store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alfred/id405843582?mt=12) | |
go to alfred preferences and make sure AppleScripts is checked in the results preferences | |
next open a youtube video in chrome | |
then open alfred via the shortcut (ctrl+space or option+space) and type youtubeController (you can just start to type it and as soon as it shows up hit enter) | |
this is will pause or play the video for you and after you use alfred to run it a few times you should be able to open alfred and type yo and hit enter and it works. | |
We will be working on getting this to be bound to a keyboard shortcut and as soon as that is done we will update this with how to do that. |
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tell application "Google Chrome" | |
set found_video to false | |
set window_list to every window | |
repeat with the_window in window_list | |
if found_video is equal to true then | |
exit repeat | |
end if | |
set tab_list to every tab in the_window | |
repeat with the_tab in tab_list | |
if the title of the_tab contains "- YouTube" then | |
tell the_tab | |
execute javascript "var h = document.querySelector('[aria-label=\"Pause\"]');" | |
execute javascript "if(h == null) var h = document.querySelector('[aria-label=\"Play\"]');" | |
execute javascript "h.click()" | |
end tell | |
set found_video to true | |
exit repeat | |
end if | |
end repeat | |
end repeat | |
end tell |
I've made this into a workflow, available at https://github.com/frederickfogerty/alfred-youtube. I've credited you in all the work @khrice.
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You're awesome. I've been wanted this forever.