Request: support youtube's email notices

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Youtube sends me email notices of new videos from my subscriptions. If I click on the "all" link, I get an untitled playlist.

But that's kinda fake. The URL shows that it is passing the videos to youtube on the fly.

I'd like to feed that email message to youtube-dl, and download my recommendations directly.

Trying to read that message shows that it is in the "=3d" format (I don't know the proper name of it -- long lines are split with an equals sign, and equal signs are replaced by =3d.) That, plus the significant javascript / css makes it kinda hard to understand by looking at it.

[dstftw]

Provide example URL.

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https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=yAKNnGHFtf7Uo-5D&u=/watch_videos?video_ids%3DoQ1WZ-eJW8Y%252Cds7n-LbOY4M%252CQc_kzEs3FL4%252CzTeaEU6hgCE%252C9xQQixUidPY%252COo0jm1PPRuo%252CqFOX3AO2FjE%252CVcctlAkAiq8%252CRPYRM-MkMXM%252Cm10ab87J4Lc%252CicGV8bJRkkg%252CpJphwrd-xJs%252CHdRzmUvNSLg%252CMn-FsuqtteA%252C1kv6r_JkopQ%252Ch2nqgKL2JQU%252CqKJv4S5peJQ%252CX41iulkRqZU%252CZhETx-K8fHQ%252C1WmA5FjiArk%26no_autoplay%3D1%26feature%3Dem-subs_digest&g=pSYP7uj67-51bUNbxqhTToDR4R4OLYFOgopc3CUxh1Z9YEQjQGFboqIhVOWS2qvfa9FH4pWUfcw0hC6ZZD4BW1qXR0mYxGMx8ZblRMD8PXwjnnZnQjX_nUZSrDDaVDKY1ppv5z94EiCtOINBsugoxe6TqQLG_CBo_w9F2B6w48MiuQZLYL0ejpz0bkr5vW7_drVzRNNlPaVB7JwGqZDME-LZb53MBO0BfM-Ss7-988i5_hXeqjHgza59FEXK01dJ_YGaqc_Gtmo1lQy5LthUCqKrADL2KURxVqGfIByIYHWbICFmuPwCttKPpy91Az7qfRDBX7QyXowrpbhL2wNbYrGzXYZMl_mqb5FtzkOAROk2J7UTxL6PT3FNS7rE2hLi4uR0dJuo-o1XvMfOJRjQOzOYYYwwMcNagIG5DRM9bspwOiFfGojHWIMUQomf_189Y1k7VGqxO3ImHmaRwePiH6-tylguQ_1bpsVKZkFMvmIANa1PbJ8EoVG_-MlXUhoi63lxYuylDNN3_Z-ZA-gXVL4eqZen6mDM2Z4wGqrCYucfYz2Ij3hGRKXiRL2EpCKXcSwxDPIZoOe5fbhreHN8_gPHtNfkpZnBXo6_lUKELYPvRKM10meYzxkdS_kqxWQ%3D

That is from "copy link" out of my email reader.

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> py -3.6 .\youtube_dl\__main__.py 'https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=yAKNnGHFtf7Uo-5D&u=/watch_videos?video_ids%3DoQ1WZ-eJW8Y%252Cds7n-LbOY4M%252CQc_kzEs3FL4%252CzTeaEU6hgCE%252C9xQQixUidPY%252COo0jm1PPRuo%252CqFOX3AO2FjE%252CVcctlAkAiq8%252CRPYRM-MkMXM%252Cm10ab87J4Lc%252CicGV8bJRkkg%252CpJphwrd-xJs%252CHdRzmUvNSLg%252CMn-FsuqtteA%252C1kv6r_JkopQ%252Ch2nqgKL2JQU%252CqKJv4S5peJQ%252CX41iulkRqZU%252CZhETx-K8fHQ%252C1WmA5FjiArk%26no_autoplay%3D1%26feature%3Dem-subs_digest&g=pSYP7uj67-51bUNbxqhTToDR4R4OLYFOgopc3CUxh1Z9YEQjQGFboqIhVOWS2qvfa9FH4pWUfcw0hC6ZZD4BW1qXR0mYxGMx8ZblRMD8PXwjnnZnQjX_nUZSrDDaVDKY1ppv5z94EiCtOINBsugoxe6TqQLG_CBo_w9F2B6w48MiuQZLYL0ejpz0bkr5vW7_drVzRNNlPaVB7JwGqZDME-LZb53MBO0BfM-Ss7-988i5_hXeqjHgza59FEXK01dJ_YGaqc_Gtmo1lQy5LthUCqKrADL2KURxVqGfIByIYHWbICFmuPwCttKPpy91Az7qfRDBX7QyXowrpbhL2wNbYrGzXYZMl_mqb5FtzkOAROk2J7UTxL6PT3FNS7rE2hLi4uR0dJuo-o1XvMfOJRjQOzOYYYwwMcNagIG5DRM9bspwOiFfGojHWIMUQomf_189Y1k7VGqxO3ImHmaRwePiH6-tylguQ_1bpsVKZkFMvmIANa1PbJ8EoVG_-MlXUhoi63lxYuylDNN3_Z-ZA-gXVL4eqZen6mDM2Z4wGqrCYucfYz2Ij3hGRKXiRL2EpCKXcSwxDPIZoOe5fbhreHN8_gPHtNfkpZnBXo6_lUKELYPvRKM10meYzxkdS_kqxWQ%3D'
[generic] watch_videos?video_ids=oQ1WZ-eJW8Y%2Cds7n-LbOY4M%2CQc_kzEs3FL4%2CzTeaEU6hgCE%2C9xQQixUidPY%2COo0jm1PPRuo%2CqFOX3AO2FjE%2CVcctlAkAiq8%2CRPYRM-MkMXM%2Cm10ab87J4Lc%2CicGV8bJRkkg%2CpJphwrd-xJs%2CHdRzmUvNSLg%2CMn-FsuqtteA%2C1kv6r_JkopQ%2Ch2nqgKL2JQU%2CqKJv4S5peJQ%2CX41iulkRqZU%2CZhETx-K8fHQ%2C1WmA5FjiArk&no_autoplay=1&feature=em-subs_digest&g=pSYP7uj67-51bUNbxqhTToDR4R4OLYFOgopc3CUxh1Z9YEQjQGFboqIhVOWS2qvfa9FH4pWUfcw0hC6ZZD4BW1qXR0mYxGMx8ZblRMD8PXwjnnZnQjX_nUZSrDDaVDKY1ppv5z94EiCtOINBsugoxe6TqQLG_CBo_w9F2B6w48MiuQZLYL0ejpz0bkr5vW7_drVzRNNlPaVB7JwGqZDME-LZb53MBO0BfM-Ss7-988i5_hXeqjHgza59FEXK01dJ_YGaqc_Gtmo1lQy5LthUCqKrADL2KURxVqGfIByIYHWbICFmuPwCttKPpy91Az7qfRDBX7QyXowrpbhL2wNbYrGzXYZMl_mqb5FtzkOAROk2J7UTxL6PT3FNS7rE2hLi4uR0dJuo-o1XvMfOJRjQOzOYYYwwMcNagIG5DRM9bspwOiFfGojHWIMUQomf_189Y1k7VGqxO3ImHmaRwePiH6-tylguQ_1bpsVKZkFMvmIANa1PbJ8EoVG_-MlXUhoi63lxYuylDNN3_Z-ZA-gXVL4eqZen6mDM2Z4wGqrCYucfYz2Ij3hGRKXiRL2EpCKXcSwxDPIZoOe5fbhreHN8_gPHtNfkpZnBXo6_lUKELYPvRKM10meYzxkdS_kqxWQ=: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1WZ-eJW8Y&list=TLGGvb3pgFd-CkIxNjA3MjAxNw
[youtube:playlist] Downloading playlist TLGGvb3pgFd-CkIxNjA3MjAxNw - add --no-playlist to just download video oQ1WZ-eJW8Y
[youtube:playlist] TLGGvb3pgFd-CkIxNjA3MjAxNw: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Untitled list
[youtube:playlist] playlist Untitled list: Downloading 20 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 20
[youtube] oQ1WZ-eJW8Y: Downloading webpage
[youtube] oQ1WZ-eJW8Y: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] oQ1WZ-eJW8Y: Extracting video information
[youtube] oQ1WZ-eJW8Y: Downloading MPD manifest
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[download] Destination: Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory _ Space Time-oQ1WZ-eJW8Y.f137.mp4
[download]   0.7% of 276.91MiB at  3.95MiB/s ETA 01:09
ERROR: Interrupted by user