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Part of the value of youtube-dl is that its reliable. If it randomly didn't work on some URLs it would make it much less useful. Moreover, there would be a ri

by nullc 6y ago

Part of the value of youtube-dl is that its reliable. If it randomly didn't work on some URLs it would make it much less useful. Moreover, there would be a risk that unethical actors would exploit the URLs that don't work in order to conduct unarchivable fraud.

kzrdude 6y ago
It's not very reliable because it can't be, any of the sites can change on any particular day, but they really try their best.