[Flickr] JSONDecodeError

[patrikalienus]

Since yesterday, downloading anything from flickr does not work.

$ gallery-dl https://flickr.com/photos/71875615@N07/albums/72177720308827962/
[flickr][error] Unable to download data:  JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

I'm using gallery-dl 1.26.7

Here's the same command with --verbose defined.

$ gallery-dl https://flickr.com/photos/71875615@N07/albums/72177720308827962/ --verbose
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.26.7
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.12.1 - macOS-12.6.5-x86_64-i386-64bit
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.31.0 - urllib3 2.1.0
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['${HOME}/.config/gallery-dl/config.json']
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://flickr.com/photos/71875615@N07/albums/72177720308827962/'
[flickr][debug] Using FlickrAlbumExtractor for 'https://flickr.com/photos/71875615@N07/albums/72177720308827962/'
[flickr][debug] Using default OAuth1.0 authentication
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.flickr.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.flickr.com:443 "GET /services/rest/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F71875615%40N07&method=flickr.urls.lookupUser&format=json&nojsoncallback=1 HTTP/1.1" 429 117
[flickr][error] Unable to download data:  JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
[flickr][debug]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 971, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.12.1_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.12.1_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.12.1_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/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)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gallery_dl/job.py", line 127, in run
    for msg in extractor:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py", line 36, in items
    data = self.metadata()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py", line 135, in metadata
    data = FlickrExtractor.metadata(self)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py", line 53, in metadata
    self.user = self.api.urls_lookupUser(self.item_id)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py", line 367, in urls_lookupUser
    user = self._call("urls.lookupUser", params)["user"]
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py", line 389, in _call
    data = self.request(self.API_URL, params=params).json()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 975, in json
    raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos)
requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[clouds321]

same, but not only albums, anything on flickr

I ran brew upgrade to see if helps but no

[patrikalienus]

same, but not only albums, anything on flickr

I ran brew upgrade to see if helps but no

I did the same without any luck.

[Hrxn]

Almost certain that it has to be a site change then..

[patrikalienus]

Almost certain that it has to be a site change then..

Yes. I think they've changed what their API response looks like. I've never built anything with python so haven't attempted to fix it myself.

[clouds321]

I checked the API via this page https://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/flickr.people.getPhotos and it seems to be working, can't tell if the response changed or not.

But from the error message it seems JSONDecodeError is getting nothing in response

[clouds321]

it is working now.....

[patrikalienus]

Looks like Flickr fixed this issue. I'm guessing the API response was malformed somehow.