yt-dlp: YouTube channel pages have infinite scrolling page count.

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YouTube has some automatically generated channels and playlists for musicians via a partner named TuneCore. The playlist page for these channels is infinite scrolling (as of today). This causes yt-dlp to grab infinite number of playlist pages. There is no option to tell yt-dlp to stop grabbing playlist pages upon repetition.

yt-dlp will need to add playlist repetition detection to abort continued grabbing of playlist pages.

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH0_ywht5OYCdRYWZUjBQwQ/playlists

This channel and all its playlists and videos are auto-generated by YouTube via partner TuneCore.

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

>yt-dlp -vU "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH0_ywht5OYCdRYWZUjBQwQ/playlists"
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH0_ywht5OYCdRYWZUjBQwQ/playlists']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8 (No VT), error utf-8 (No VT), screen utf-8 (No VT)
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.11.11 [8b64402] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 (OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n4.4-6-g7e9b9f24df (setts), ffprobe n4.4-6-g7e9b9f24df
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.15.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.09.24, mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1723 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: 2022.11.11, Current version: 2022.11.11
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.11.11)
[debug] [youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH0_ywht5OYCdRYWZUjBQwQ/playlists
[youtube:tab] UCH0_ywht5OYCdRYWZUjBQwQ/playlists: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube:tab] Selected tab: 'playlists' (playlists), Requested tab: 'playlists'
[download] Downloading playlist: Pogo - Topic - Playlists
[youtube:tab] UCH0_ywht5OYCdRYWZUjBQwQ page 1: Downloading API JSON
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