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Tiktok not get video url sometimes

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support = yes
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06 = yes
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser = yes
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped = yes
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones = yes

Verbose log

youtube-dl -g 'https://www.tiktok.com/@aamora_3mk/video/7028702876205632773' -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-g', 'https://www.tiktok.com/@aamora_3mk/video/7028702876205632773', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython) - Linux-5.11.0-40-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to extract data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/tiktok.py", line 110, in _real_extract
    page_props = self._parse_json(self._search_regex(
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.