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Why is either extractor or extractor_key needed when they're virtually the same? #24656

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Glenta opened this issue Apr 6, 2020 · 1 comment
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@Glenta Glenta commented Apr 6, 2020

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From what I can tell from extracting videos from all sorts of sites, why is extractor and extractor_key necessary when they give the same output. The only site I can tell that have different outputs are YouTube which gives "Youtube" from "extractor_key" and "youtube" from "extractor."

I would also like to add can you change YouTube's "extractor_key" from Youtube to YouTube.

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@dstftw dstftw commented Apr 7, 2020

The former is printable name, the latter is key identifier. Key won't change.

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