[FiloSottile]

Filippo here. I'm sad that I didn't have the time to contribute to ytdl much recently, but it was my first time playing a role in a big and popular project, and I'm terribly grateful for that trust. (Thanks Ricardo, thanks Philipp!)

Also, what always impressed me is the incredible amount of random contributions from the community. Ever since we introduced a super-simple plugin system [0], support for the most disparate video sites poured in as PR. (>800 PR!!) Also, given how ytdl is structured, the most simple plugin gets you 90% of the tool power for that video sit. Big results with minimum effort.

Finally, to answer the question about the updates in some siblings, there is no active effort against us most of the time (VEVO videos being the notable exception) but supporting such a number of sites mainly by scraping means that breaking changes happen really really often.

[0] https://filippo.io/add-support-for-a-new-video-site-to-youtu...

[phihag_]

Thank you for all your contributions! Can you update that article to use video_id = self._match_id(url) and _VALID_URL = 'https?://...' though? We've also added a fair bit of "official" documentation at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#addi... .