Patreon.com: Creator posts does not work anymore (but works again since 25.10.23)

[Tobi823]

Thanks for your work :)

Sadly the download from Patreon no longer works. Here is the error log:

Do you need more information from me to solve this bug?

gallery-dl --verbose --cookies cookies-patreon-com.txt "https://www.patreon.com/posts/..."

[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.26.1
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.11.5 - Linux-6.5.5-1-MANJARO-x86_64-with-glibc2.38
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.31.0 - urllib3 2.0.7
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['${HOME}/.config/gallery-dl/config.json']
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://www.patreon.com/posts/...'
[patreon][debug] Using PatreonPostExtractor for 'https://www.patreon.com/posts/...'
[patreon][debug] TLS 1.2 disabled.
[patreon][debug] Loading cookies from 'cookies-patreon-com.txt'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.patreon.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.patreon.com:443 "GET /posts/... HTTP/1.1" 200 None
[patreon][error] An unexpected error occurred: JSONDecodeError - Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Please run gallery-dl again with the --verbose flag, copy its output and report this issue on https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues .
[patreon][debug] 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/hacker/.local/pipx/venvs/gallery-dl/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gallery_dl/job.py", line 124, in run
    for msg in extractor:
  File "/home/hacker/.local/pipx/venvs/gallery-dl/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gallery_dl/extractor/patreon.py", line 38, in items
    for post in self.posts():
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/hacker/.local/pipx/venvs/gallery-dl/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gallery_dl/extractor/patreon.py", line 327, in posts
    post = self._extract_bootstrap(page)["post"]
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/hacker/.local/pipx/venvs/gallery-dl/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gallery_dl/extractor/patreon.py", line 252, in _extract_bootstrap
    return util.json_loads(text.extr(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

The error looks like #4547, but the workaround #4547 (comment) is no longer working.

I installed gallerly-dl with pipx but also tried a new venv + python3 -m pip install -U -I --no-deps --no-cache-dir https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/archive/master.tar.gz

[Tobi823]

It works again - maybe Patreon had a temporary problem?