commit a78125f925a1d350dbc1edee0e348f84e105be52
parent 1e9a9e167d5e518f44402394bb4cc23712ff32fc
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:56:56 +0100
Merge pull request #5019 from cyberjacob/master
Change example URLs in readme (fixes #5018)
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1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ Support requests for services that **do** purchase the rights to distribute thei
### 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.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.
+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/video/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.
