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 youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms
 
-# SYNOPSIS
-**youtube-dl** [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
+- [INSTALLATION](#installation)
+- [DESCRIPTION](#description)
+- [OPTIONS](#options)
+- [CONFIGURATION](#configuration)
+- [OUTPUT TEMPLATE](#output-template)
+- [VIDEO SELECTION](#video-selection)
+- [FAQ](#faq)
+- [DEVELOPER INSTRUCTIONS](#developer-instructions)
+- [BUGS](#bugs)
+- [COPYRIGHT](#copyright)
 
 # INSTALLATION
 
@@ -34,6 +42,8 @@ YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version
 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.
 
+    youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
+
 # OPTIONS
     -h, --help                       print this help text and exit
     --version                        print program version and exit
@@ -439,6 +449,14 @@ Since June 2012 (#342) youtube-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, simply unz
 
 To run the exe you need to install first the [Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29).
 
+### How can I detect whether a given URL is supported by youtube-dl?
+
+For one, have a look at the [list of supported sites](docs/supportedsites). Note that it can sometimes happen that the site changes its URL scheme (say, from http://example.com/v/1234567 to http://example.com/v/1234567 ) and youtube-dl reports an URL of a service in that list as unsupported. In that case, simply report a bug.
+
+It is *not* possible to detect whether a URL is supported or not. That's because youtube-dl contains a generic extractor which matches **all** URLs. You may be tempted to disable, exclude, or remove the generic extractor, but the generic extractor not only allows users to extract videos from lots of websites that embed a video from another service, but may also be used to extract video from a service that it's hosting itself. Therefore, we neither recommend nor support disabling, excluding, or removing the generic extractor.
+
+If you want to find out whether a given URL is supported, simply call youtube-dl with it. If you get no videos back, chances are the URL is either not referring to a video or unsupported. You can find out which by examining the output (if you run youtube-dl on the console) or catching an `UnsupportedError` exception if you run it from a Python program.
+
 # DEVELOPER INSTRUCTIONS
 
 Most users do not need to build youtube-dl and can [download the builds](http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html) or get them from their distribution.