Python: Failed to parse JSON - Expecting value: char 0

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Verbose log

[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 3.7.8 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
[youtube:search] query "iron man 3 song": Downloading page 1
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: query "iron man 3 song": Failed to parse JSON  (caused by JSONDecodeError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)')); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Description

The bug seems to only happen every so often, or very often all at once, so I don't have a good way to replicate it. Some songs will work at one point in time, then they won't a couple minutes later.
The videos that fail seemingly have no correlation to one another.
I get the issues when attempting to extract the data from the video. Here is a snippet of the code I am using:

ydlOps = {
    'format': 'bestaudio/best',
    'outtmpl': './%(title)s.webm',
    'noplaylist': True,
    'extractaudio': True,
    'audioformat': 'webm',
    'default_search': 'ytsearch1',
    'quite': True,
    'verbose':True,
    'version': True
}

        with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydlOps) as downloader:
            songData = downloader.extract_info(url, download=download)