diff --git a/src/bobbit/modules/title.py b/src/bobbit/modules/title.py
index 6ff65f5..5385139 100644
--- a/src/bobbit/modules/title.py
+++ b/src/bobbit/modules/title.py
@@ -104,7 +104,11 @@ async def youtube_title(bot, url, text):
video_name = re.findall(r'
]*>([^<]+) - YouTube[\s]*', text)[0] # get title, removing "- YouTube" from the end
except IndexError:
# XXX: 2024-06-08 - Alternative means of extracting video name (Google sending back different JSON)
- video_name = re.findall(r'videoPrimaryInfoRenderer.*?"text":"([^"]+)"', text)[0]
+ video_name = re.findall(r'videoPrimaryInfoRenderer.*?"text":"(.*?)"}', text)[0]
+
+ # XXX: Escape backslashed strings, https://stackoverflow.com/a/57192592
+ video_name = video_name.encode('latin-1', 'backslashreplace')\
+ .decode('unicode-escape')
return bot.client.format_text(
'{color}{green}Video{color}: {bold}{video_name}{bold} {color}{green}Channel{color}: {bold}{channel_name}{bold}',