Anyway of reading the Safari "activity" viewer...

I want to write a custom youtube download script. I have started working on a long convoluted one that uses tcpflow when the video is playing, but the easiest way is to get the download location from the 'activity' viewer. I do not know how to get applescript to read this?
Any ideas?
Merci

Well, if you are looking for convoluted, then System Events will be right up your alley. You can use the UIElementInspector application to get the various attributes to plug in to System Events (the "Enable access for assistive devices" will need to be enabled in System Preferences > Universal Access), for example:
<pre title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor" style="font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #000000; width: 720px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFDDFF; overflow: auto">tell application "Safari" to activate
delay 0.5
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "a" using {option down, command down} -- Window > Activity menu item
delay 0.5
set URLlist to value of text field 1 of rows of outline 1 of scroll area 1 of window "Activity" of application process "Safari"
end tell
activate me -- show the result
choose from list URLlist with empty selection allowed
</pre>

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