Unable to receive video metadata for some random videos

[AMDBartek]

I have a Discord music bot and one of my friends tried to play this video (warning, it is loud): https://youtu.be/ihmDR7W1P1o and it threw an error (sometimes there is no error at all but it still doesn’t play), this does not happen in 3.4.2 however it does happen with version 4 and above.

The audio part of my code:

client.on("message", message => {
    
  var ismusicCommand = message.content.toLowerCase().startsWith(config.prefix + "play") || message.content.toLowerCase().startsWith(config.prefix + "skip") || message.content.toLowerCase().startsWith(config.prefix + "stop");
    
  if (message.author.bot) return;
  
  if (!message.channel.guild) {
      if (ismusicCommand == true) {
      message.react("723607808255197244");
      message.channel.send("Music functionality can only be used while in a guild!");
    return;
      }
      return;
  }

  const serverQueue = queue.get(message.guild.id);

  if (message.content.toLowerCase().startsWith(config.prefix + `play`)) {
    message.react("723607808062390363");
    execute(message, serverQueue);
    return;
  } else if (message.content.toLowerCase().startsWith(config.prefix + `skip`)) {
    message.react("723607808062390363");
    skip(message, serverQueue);
    return;
  } else if (message.content.toLowerCase().startsWith(config.prefix + `stop`)) {
    message.react("723607808062390363");
    stop(message, serverQueue);
    return;
  }
});

async function execute(message, serverQueue) {
  const args = message.content.split(" ");

  const voiceChannel = message.member.voice.channel;
  if (!voiceChannel)
    return message.channel.send("You need to be in a voice channel to play audio!");
  const permissions = voiceChannel.permissionsFor(message.client.user);
  if (!permissions.has("CONNECT") || !permissions.has("SPEAK")) {
    return message.channel.send("I need the permissions to join and play audio in your voice channel!");
  }

  const songInfo = await ytdl.getInfo(args[1]);
  const song = {
    title: songInfo.videoDetails.title,
    author: songInfo.videoDetails.author.name,
    url: songInfo.videoDetails.video_url
  };

  if (!serverQueue) {
    const queueContruct = {
      textChannel: message.channel,
      voiceChannel: voiceChannel,
      connection: null,
      songs: [],
      volume: 5,
      playing: true
    };

    queue.set(message.guild.id, queueContruct);

    queueContruct.songs.push(song);

    try {
      var connection = await voiceChannel.join();
      queueContruct.connection = connection;
      play(message.guild, queueContruct.songs[0]);
    } catch (err) {
      console.log(err);
      queue.delete(message.guild.id);
      return message.channel.send(err);
    }
  } else {
    serverQueue.songs.push(song);
    return message.channel.send(`${song.title} **by** ${song.author} has been added to the queue!`);
  }
}

function skip(message, serverQueue) {
  if (!message.member.voice.channel)
    return message.channel.send("You have to be in a voice channel to skip audio!");
  if (!serverQueue)
    return message.channel.send("There is no audio that I could skip!");
  serverQueue.connection.dispatcher.end();
}

function stop(message, serverQueue) {
  if (!message.member.voice.channel)
    return message.channel.send("You have to be in a voice channel to stop audio playback!");
  serverQueue.songs = [];
  serverQueue.connection.dispatcher.end();
  message.channel.send("Successfully stopped audio playback and left voice channel.")
}

function play(guild, song) {
  const serverQueue = queue.get(guild.id);
  if (!song) {
    serverQueue.voiceChannel.leave();
    queue.delete(guild.id);
    return;
  }

  const dispatcher = serverQueue.connection
    .play(ytdl(song.url), {bitrate: 192000 /* 192kbps */})
    .on("finish", () => {
      serverQueue.songs.shift();
      play(guild, serverQueue.songs[0]);
    })
    .on("error", error => console.error(error));
  dispatcher.setVolumeLogarithmic(serverQueue.volume / 5);
  serverQueue.textChannel.send(`Started playing: ${song.title} **by** ${song.author}`);
}

The error that I am getting:

(node:262965) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Unable to retrieve video metadata
    at getJSONWatchPage (/media/bitlockermount/My Files/Things I've Made/(Discord Bots)/[AMD]Bot+/node_modules/ytdl-core/lib/info.js:192:11)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)
    at async retryFn (/media/bitlockermount/My Files/Things I've Made/(Discord Bots)/[AMD]Bot+/node_modules/ytdl-core/lib/info.js:136:16)
    at async exports.getBasicInfo (/media/bitlockermount/My Files/Things I've Made/(Discord Bots)/[AMD]Bot+/node_modules/ytdl-core/lib/info.js:35:14)
    at async exports.getInfo (/media/bitlockermount/My Files/Things I've Made/(Discord Bots)/[AMD]Bot+/node_modules/ytdl-core/lib/info.js:257:14)
    at async execute (/media/bitlockermount/My Files/Things I've Made/(Discord Bots)/[AMD]Bot+/bot.js:460:20)
(node:262965) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:262965) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Is this a problem with my code or is it a problem with ytdl-core? It only happens on specific videos.

I am not very good at programming so if I made a mistake please point it out, if you need more info please don’t hesitate to ask.

Sorry for the messy issue layout, I wrote this issue on my phone.

[BlazeIsClone]

yup im getting this randomly too(note that the error goes away after another try). I clean installed ytdl-core as well but no luck.

[bryceroethel]

I am also encountering this error, sometimes waiting resolves it, other times it doesn't, and it appears to happen at random. It also will sometimes resolve itself if I restart my application.