commit 04edb9caf58642acd4e8bd3fbefaf28eacfe8e9f
parent 0a7055c90dac10e7f4c3393922bccf546081262b
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 23:32:44 +0100
Merge pull request #4838 from raunaqrox/patch-1
supported sites link was not opening from README
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ Either prepend `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=` or separate the ID from the opt
### How can I detect whether a given URL is supported by youtube-dl?
-For one, have a look at the [list of supported sites](docs/supportedsites). Note that it can sometimes happen that the site changes its URL scheme (say, from http://example.com/v/1234567 to http://example.com/v/1234567 ) and youtube-dl reports an URL of a service in that list as unsupported. In that case, simply report a bug.
+For one, have a look at the [list of supported sites](docs/supportedsites.md). Note that it can sometimes happen that the site changes its URL scheme (say, from http://example.com/v/1234567 to http://example.com/v/1234567 ) and youtube-dl reports an URL of a service in that list as unsupported. In that case, simply report a bug.
It is *not* possible to detect whether a URL is supported or not. That's because youtube-dl contains a generic extractor which matches **all** URLs. You may be tempted to disable, exclude, or remove the generic extractor, but the generic extractor not only allows users to extract videos from lots of websites that embed a video from another service, but may also be used to extract video from a service that it's hosting itself. Therefore, we neither recommend nor support disabling, excluding, or removing the generic extractor.
