ShortToRegular

Shorts are a necessity in the age of TikTok. But they have their annoyances. For one thing, there is a text and stuff overlay that often obscures text in the actual video, and gives no way to hide it. What you can do is to take the video id and load that as a regular video. This userscript automates that so that, on a short page, you can press Ctrl-Alt-P to switch into a regular video viewer.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Youtube shorts to regular key combo
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      2025-07-02
// @description  A-C-p to switch to regular video view
// @author       John Allsup
// @match        https://www.youtube.com/shorts/*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=youtube.com
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

// This is my regular function to turn key events to a standard form like `A-C-p`
// for Alt-Control-p. The key name is lowercase, and the modifiers are single capital
// letters in ascending lexicographic order. So `A-C-p` and not `C-A-p`, for example.
// The name acms is short for "alt control meta shift". I try to key 'meta' (aka Windows)
// reserved for global desktop things, and anything without meta reserved for applications.
function acms(e) {
    let key = e.key
    const code = e.code.toLowerCase()
    if( code === "backquote" ) { key = "`" }
    if( code.startsWith("digit") ) { key = code.substr(5) }
    if( code === "space" ) { key = "space" }
    let t = key.toLowerCase()
    if( e.shiftKey ) t = "S-"+t
    if( e.metaKey ) t = "M-"+t
    if( e.ctrlKey ) t = "C-"+t
    if( e.altKey ) t = "A-"+t
    return t
}

window.addEventListener("keydown", e => {
    const k = acms(e)
    if( k == "A-C-p" ) {
        e.preventDefault()
        const here = window.location.href
        let x = here.split("?")[0].split("/").slice(-1)[0]
        let url = `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${x}`
        window.location.href = url
    }
})


})();