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> 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 amou
by 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 agoI 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 agoPerhaps 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.