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-youtube-dl [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rg3/youtube-dl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rg3/youtube-dl)
+youtube-dl
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 Download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms
 
 Description
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 **youtube-dl** is a small command-line program to download videos from
-YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version
+YouTube.com and many other online video sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version
 2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on
 your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain,
 which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.