Why not use a generic extractor for peertube?

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Currently, each peertube instance needs to be manually added to youtube-dl. It would be nicer if youtube-dl had a generic extractor that simply tried to detect peertube instances (the API's a good start, also webfinger and stuff), as then peertube-supporting versions would be compatible with all peertube instances. This is a bigger deal for things like ubuntu which don't have rolling release.

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youtube-dl https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/b37a5b9f-e6b5-415c-b700-04a5cd6ec205
[generic] b37a5b9f-e6b5-415c-b700-04a5cd6ec205: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] b37a5b9f-e6b5-415c-b700-04a5cd6ec205: Downloading webpage
[generic] b37a5b9f-e6b5-415c-b700-04a5cd6ec205: Extracting information
[download] Destination: The Daily Dweebs-b37a5b9f-e6b5-415c-b700-04a5cd6ec205.unknown_video
[download] 100% of 6.21KiB in 00:00

I guess youtube-dl-2018.06.11 does use generic extractor, but it doesn't work correctly :(