Description field for new tests - variable md5 checksum?

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Hello All,

I am trying to add a new test for an extractor and have come across a strange effect regarding the description field.

The test regards a video on the Youtube website:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWuNtik0C8E

The description for this video is quite long, so I want to set this property as an 'md5:' checksum value. However, Youtube-dl reports a different value for this property every time I try to fetch the video.

i.e.

'description': 'md5:1a074ab7d4303b6329fd64f116fb4fb9'

'description': 'md5:b3e448cc5f0c088788321c4e1f2c52d2'

'description': 'md5:507d1c68ec7a42d26a86f1afe2850e34'

'description': 'md5:676b205db857d5867e7530319b96a590'

Why would the checksum value for the description field differ with successive hits, when the description text for this video is always the same in each case? Has anyone seen this effect before?

Many thanks in advance!

Parmjit V.

[dstftw]

Youtube now wraps all external links in description in own redirected links with random redir_token.