[extractor/youtube] Fix `:ytnotifications` extractor (#3775)

[yt-dlp.git] / yt_dlp / extractor / youtube.py

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
index 0f046d87fad23e165fd397c2532a918c984439b9..c9bdd309d89503ab6907bd0b8295def6ca79922f 100644 (file)
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -5673,11 +5673,13 @@ def _extract_notification_renderer(self, notification):
         channel = traverse_obj(
             notification, ('contextualMenu', 'menuRenderer', 'items', 1, 'menuServiceItemRenderer', 'text', 'runs', 1, 'text'),
             expected_type=str)
+        notification_title = self._get_text(notification, 'shortMessage')
+        if notification_title:
+            notification_title = notification_title.replace('\xad', '')  # remove soft hyphens
+        # TODO: handle recommended videos
         title = self._search_regex(
-            rf'{re.escape(channel)} [^:]+: (.+)', self._get_text(notification, 'shortMessage'),
+            rf'{re.escape(channel or "")}[^:]+: (.+)', notification_title,
             'video title', default=None)
-        if title:
-            title = title.replace('\xad', '')  # remove soft hyphens
         upload_date = (strftime_or_none(self._extract_time_text(notification, 'sentTimeText')[0], '%Y%m%d')
                        if self._configuration_arg('approximate_date', ie_key=YoutubeTabIE.ie_key())
                        else None)