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Sometimes I just want to know whether youtube-dl can be expected to handle a given URL. This option accomplishes that quickly. Previously, I would run youtube-dl with --simulate or --skip-download, but these would take 5+ seconds on my system before returning. The --determine-extractors option of this PR, however, only takes 1.3 to 2.6 seconds. You can use it, for example, to handle arbitrary URLs intelligently: If --determine-extractor indicates success, run youtube-dl (or mpv or whatever). Otherwise, run $BROWSER. Thank you.