Comment by temp_account_32

For those interested further, in some of the past few weeks youtube-dl had stopped working intermittently for multiple hours at a time, and it was precisely related to this code.

We have a custom-made Discord music bot on our server which uses ytdl to stream songs so we can listen together, and at one point we were listening and suddenly got some obscure JavaScript error.

We began joking that there's some bug in the code which breaks it after 6PM, but later found out that Google had changed some of the obfuscated JS and this basically broke this part of code, which prevented us from fetching the song information.