This is exactly why I contributed. In fact this morning, by coincidence, I had my first ever PR accepted, and it was for this piece of software [1]. I was using

This is exactly why I contributed. In fact this morning, by coincidence, I had my first ever PR accepted, and it was for this piece of software [1]. I was using youtube-dl to download VK videos, but I really wanted to be able to download an entire playlist -- in the same way you can for YouTube. It didn't exist, so I just got stuck in and did it myself. It really helped that there was many other examples I could look at from other sites, and the maintainer of the package provided me with some very good feedback. This kind of project that requires a lot of fairly laborious work to create support for many different information sources is a particularly good candidate for an open source project. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/4233 https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/4233