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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.

> 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...

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

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.

youtube also breaks on youtube-dl, every few months. Fortunately it becomes very obvious when a breaking change has occurred.

I assume such breaks are created on purpose by YouTube to reduce downloads and similar undesirable (to YouTube) usage?

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