On 2025-03-12, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > That's the way I normally look for videos, and ytsearch was also > news to me. Is ytsearch limited to finding youtube videos, or more > wideranging? One of the benefits of yt-dlp is that I can grab videos > off news outlets (print and TV), facebook, tiktok, etc. (BTW I'm not > subscribed to social media sites.)
Apparently, ytsearch is more wide-ranging. yt-dlp --list-extractors Extractors? Anyway, it seems there's only 9 "extractors." yt-dlp "site_searchN:SITE_NAME:QUERY" So: yt-dlp "ytsearch5:soundcloud:ambient music" Somewhere yesterday, I saw another syntax: yt-dlp "scsearch5:ambient music" would search soundcloud. I haven't tested any of this.
