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What problem is being solved here? You can't use `f'{x}{y}'` since the code should be able to run on versions of Python that treat that as a syntax error. If...

> ... [`software_statement`] is the first request to Adobe when opening the page in incognito mode (no localStorage or cookies). ... You mean that, with no existing state, the first...

For the single videos, extract the slug, like `mmn-daily_122024`; then https://means.tv/programs/mmn-daily_122024/program_content gets a page fragment that is handled by the HTML5 extractor, although the video ID extraction is not great:...

The video ID should be something that uniquely identifies a video given the extractor. This has never applied to/been enforced for the Generic extractor (being too hard in general, I...

The [HTML5 HLS formats](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12026#issuecomment-2578348060) would not have been extracted if they were DRMed. OP answered your questions, asked identically in another issue, in the template. Are you a bot?

Possibly the anti-capitalists need some of your distasteful capital, or at least the promise of it after a 7-day free trial, to subscribe to some level of service before the...

yt-dl knows how to deal with fragment manifests, whether HLS (m3u8) or DASH (mpd). If, as with On:ORF, eg, a site may serve a single show as multiple parts, the...

Normally someone in the relevant region, or who has a VPN so as to appear so, is both sufficiently interested and sufficiently skilled to work on the extractor. If any...

There's no point scheduling a test that will always fail so the test-case will typically include `'skip': 'only available in FR',` or similar. A maintainer who is working on the...

In yt-dl, use the appropriate `_extract_xxx_formats[_and_subtitles]()` IE method to turn a xxx manifest into formats; call `_sort_formats()` before returning the info-dict. It may be necessary to populate the `http_headers` dict...