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[YoutubeDL] Improve extract_info doc (#28946)

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Co-authored-by: Sergey M. <dstftw@gmail.com>
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@ -773,11 +773,20 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
def extract_info(self, url, download=True, ie_key=None, extra_info={},
process=True, force_generic_extractor=False):
'''
Returns a list with a dictionary for each video we find.
If 'download', also downloads the videos.
extra_info is a dict containing the extra values to add to each result
'''
"""
Return a list with a dictionary for each video extracted.
Arguments:
url -- URL to extract
Keyword arguments:
download -- whether to download videos during extraction
ie_key -- extractor key hint
extra_info -- dictionary containing the extra values to add to each result
process -- whether to resolve all unresolved references (URLs, playlist items),
must be True for download to work.
force_generic_extractor -- force using the generic extractor
"""
if not ie_key and force_generic_extractor:
ie_key = 'Generic'