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Re:Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019 by codetrotter on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:55PM (#21633228)
> 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_d...

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Re:Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019 by rdc12 on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:14PM (#21634370)
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
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Re:Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019 by userbinator on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:18PM (#21635101)
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.
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