I discovered that yt-dlp can download the stupid HLS videos from nitter like it aint no thang, and not just from nitter.net but any instance. I was very interested as to how it knows which extractor to use, it must be scraping the page and looking for something right?

well....
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@sampo Yep, but there's a lot more Peertube instances

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Well, that's a special variation on "If in doubt, use brute force"...
@sampo @matrix why doesn't it try /.well-known/ or an API endpoint? :akko_derp:
@matrix @sampo easier for them to maintain a list than implement functional checking I guess...
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