Ytsearch randomly results in an error

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Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['ytsearch:example', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
[debug] Python version 3.8.5 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-99300-gb0dee629da, ffprobe N-99300-gb0dee629da
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:search] query "example": Downloading page 1
ERROR: query "example": 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

This error occurs randomly when using ytsearch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.