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Urgent Feature: Allow manual extractor selection/override #5159
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We would have to modify a lot the regexes to make it work and it wouldn't work because we end up downloading the page See the reasons in #4551 to know why passing the webpage source as input is not possible (among others it won't work for playlists and for youtube videos we need at least two pages). |
Having the ability to manually tell youtube-dl what extractor to use while providing a link that may not be the URL the extractor expects.
For example:
youtube-dl --use-extractor 'youtube' -g http://www.blahblahblah.com/some_captcha_workaround.php?v=xxxxxxxxxxx...would cause youtube-dl to treat the link as a youtube video url.
I need this feature to try to work on a captcha workaround by processing everything outside of youtube-dl and return the captcha-less video page's source code (it would be identical to the source that youtube-dl sees when there is no captcha).
Another cool upgraded or advanced use of this feature would be the ability feed/pipe the pure source code into youtube-dl after captcha processing or bypass.