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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 7f627c44c..3c2d46dd5 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
     information possibly downloading the video to the file system, among
     other possible outcomes.
 
-    The dictionaries must include the following fields:
+    The type field determines the the type of the result.
+    By far the most common value (and the default if _type is missing) is
+    "video", which indicates a single video.
+
+    For a video, the dictionaries must include the following fields:
 
     id:             Video identifier.
     title:          Video title, unescaped.
@@ -151,6 +155,38 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
 
     Unless mentioned otherwise, None is equivalent to absence of information.
 
+
+    _type "playlist" indicates multiple videos.
+    There must be a key "entries", which is a list or a PagedList object, each
+    element of which is a valid dictionary under this specfication.
+
+    Additionally, playlists can have "title" and "id" attributes with the same
+    semantics as videos (see above).
+
+
+    _type "multi_video" indicates that there are multiple videos that
+    form a single show, for examples multiple acts of an opera or TV episode.
+    It must have an entries key like a playlist and contain all the keys
+    required for a video at the same time.
+
+
+    _type "url" indicates that the video must be extracted from another
+    location, possibly by a different extractor. Its only required key is:
+    "url" - the next URL to extract.
+
+    Additionally, it may have properties believed to be identical to the
+    resolved entity, for example "title" if the title of the referred video is
+    known ahead of time.
+
+
+    _type "url_transparent" entities have the same specification as "url", but
+    indicate that the given additional information is more precise than the one
+    associated with the resolved URL.
+    This is useful when a site employs a video service that hosts the video and
+    its technical metadata, but that video service does not embed a useful
+    title, description etc.
+
+
     Subclasses of this one should re-define the _real_initialize() and
     _real_extract() methods and define a _VALID_URL regexp.
     Probably, they should also be added to the list of extractors.
@@ -387,17 +423,18 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
         """Report attempt to log in."""
         self.to_screen('Logging in')
 
-    #Methods for following #608
+    # Methods for following #608
     @staticmethod
     def url_result(url, ie=None, video_id=None):
         """Returns a url that points to a page that should be processed"""
-        #TODO: ie should be the class used for getting the info
+        # TODO: ie should be the class used for getting the info
         video_info = {'_type': 'url',
                       'url': url,
                       'ie_key': ie}
         if video_id is not None:
             video_info['id'] = video_id
         return video_info
+
     @staticmethod
     def playlist_result(entries, playlist_id=None, playlist_title=None):
         """Returns a playlist"""
@@ -441,7 +478,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
             raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
         else:
             self._downloader.report_warning('unable to extract %s; '
-                'please report this issue on http://yt-dl.org/bug' % _name)
+                                            'please report this issue on http://yt-dl.org/bug' % _name)
             return None
 
     def _html_search_regex(self, pattern, string, name, default=_NO_DEFAULT, fatal=True, flags=0, group=None):
@@ -481,7 +518,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                     raise netrc.NetrcParseError('No authenticators for %s' % self._NETRC_MACHINE)
             except (IOError, netrc.NetrcParseError) as err:
                 self._downloader.report_warning('parsing .netrc: %s' % compat_str(err))
-        
+
         return (username, password)
 
     def _get_tfa_info(self):
@@ -575,7 +612,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
 
     def _twitter_search_player(self, html):
         return self._html_search_meta('twitter:player', html,
-            'twitter card player')
+                                      'twitter card player')
 
     def _sort_formats(self, formats):
         if not formats: