From aaa1c78956ed4ff63df067671396de864afdc43e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Kacper=20Michaj=C5=82ow?= <kasper93@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 23:25:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/twitch] Remove dead `rechat` subtitles (#16660)

Authored by: kasper93
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py
index 13d3f064e2..7656b45fce 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py
@@ -589,17 +589,6 @@ class TwitchVodIE(TwitchBaseIE):
         if 't' in query:
             info['start_time'] = parse_duration(query['t'][0])
 
-        if info.get('timestamp') is not None:
-            info['subtitles'] = {
-                'rechat': [{
-                    'url': update_url_query(
-                        f'https://api.twitch.tv/v5/videos/{vod_id}/comments', {
-                            'client_id': self._CLIENT_ID,
-                        }),
-                    'ext': 'json',
-                }],
-            }
-
         return info