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It also works for Facebook (!), though FB keeps changing the API / keys so make sure to keep an updated youtube-dl.

• codetrotter 7y ago
  > It also works for Facebook (!) People often assume that youtube-dl only works with YouTube because of the name, but it actually works with a really huge amount of sites, including Vimeo and Twitch. You can see the full list of extractors that they have in the source here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/extractor https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...
  • rdc12 7y ago
    I have also found it works pretty well (works 80% to 90% of the time), at fetching videos from random websites that self host a video
  • userbinator 7y ago
    Perhaps they should just rename it to something more generic like "video-dl", but then again I suspect its primary use is for YouTube and the other sites are just "extras" it grew over time.
• rdc12 7y ago
  youtube also breaks on youtube-dl, every few months. Fortunately it becomes very obvious when a breaking change has occurred.
  • pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    I assume such breaks are created on purpose by YouTube to reduce downloads and similar undesirable (to YouTube) usage?