Spotify support confusing
Author: natedogith1Created Jun 18, 2022Updated Jun 26, 2026
Labelsdocumentation
Checklist
- I'm reporting a broken site support
- I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
- I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
- I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
- I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
Description
supportedsites.md says spotify is supported, but it fails with the typical open.spotify.com links (related issues: #30180, #29722, #28660). The documentation should be updated to make it clearer that this use case isn't supported.
Source: ytdl-org/youtube-dl