Slow extraction speed for Youtube video urls

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Question

I'm using youtube-dl only to extract video urls from youtube, it's extremely slow (takes up to 30secs to extract the urls) for a while now. I've also checked the open issues, one was talking about that but the final conclusion was it won't be fixed and yt-dlp could be used. I agree yt-dlp is much faster (takes maybe 3sec to get a URL), any chance we can get such modifications used on yt-dlp also on youtube-dl? yt-dlp is no alternative for me as I'm fixed to a system which still uses Python 2.7