Users are prone to overread the introductory text and conclude that just because an extractor is missing in this list, youtube-dl does not support the site.
youtube-dl can download videos from a lot of sites, here's a list with some of the most popular.
For a complete list, see the <ahref="supportedsites.html">Supported sites</a> pages or execute <code>youtube-dl --list-extractors</code>.
youtube-dl can download videos from not only YouTube, but over 150 different services.
For a complete list, see the <ahref="supportedsites.html">Supported sites</a> pages or execute <code>youtube-dl --extractor-descriptions</code>.
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<ul>
<li>YouTube.com.</li>
<li>YouTube.com playlists (playlist URLs in "view_play_list" form).</li>
<li>YouTube.com searches, using the special keyword "ytsearch" as a form of URL, as in "ytsearch:cute kittens". Do not forget the quotes if you want to include spaces in your search. Other variants are "ytsearchN" to download more than the first result, with N being a number, and "ytsearchall".</li>
<li>YouTube.com user videos, using user page URLs or the specifc "ytuser" keyword.</li>
<li>metacafe.com.</li>
<li>Google Video.</li>
<li>Google Video searches ("gvsearch" keyword).</li>
<li>A generic downloader that works in some sites.</li>
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<h1id="d5">Proxy support</h1>
<p>youtube-dl supports downloading videos through a proxy, by setting the <em>http_proxy</em> environment variable to the proxy URL, as in <code>http://proxy_machine_name:port/</code>.</p>