NPO / zapp.nl - Failed to parse JSON #8547
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- I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site
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Downloading a program does not work. I'm using Proton VPN (free) and can access programs with Chrome browser.
Failed to parse JSON (caused by JSONDecodeError("Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)"))
Test URL: https://www.zapp.nl/programmas/checkpoint/gemist/VPWON_1268616
I have tried the release version 2023.10.13 and nightly@2023.11.07.231015 [10025b7]. Same issue with both of them.
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
- Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>) - If using API, add
'verbose': TruetoYoutubeDLparams instead - Copy the WHOLE output (starting with
[debug] Command-line config) and insert it below
Complete Verbose Output
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.zapp.nl/programmas/checkpoint/gemist/VPWON_1268616']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2023.11.07.231015 [10025b715] (win_exe)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1k 25 Mar 2021)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.0-full_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 6.0-full_build-www.gyan.dev
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.19.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2023.07.22, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.31.0, sqlite3-3.35.5, urllib3-2.0.7, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests
[debug] Loaded 1890 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases/latest
Available version: nightly@2023.11.07.231015, Current version: nightly@2023.11.07.231015
Current Build Hash: 4df736bdf04f79de60c985a9e9f007299caac14cf6656d6f058643ac6a16a321
yt-dlp is up to date (nightly@2023.11.07.231015)
[npo] Extracting URL: https://www.zapp.nl/programmas/checkpoint/gemist/VPWON_1268616
[npo] VPWON_1268616: Downloading token
[npo] VPWON_1268616: Downloading player JSON
ERROR: [npo] VPWON_1268616: VPWON_1268616: Failed to parse JSON (caused by JSONDecodeError("Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)")); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U
File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 715, in extract
File "yt_dlp\extractor\npo.py", line 222, in _real_extract
File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1069, in download_content
File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1039, in download_handle
File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1029, in parse
File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1016, in _parse_json
File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 999, in __print_error
File "yt_dlp\utils\_utils.py", line 555, in decode
File "json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
File "json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
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 "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 1013, in _parse_json
File "json\__init__.py", line 370, in loads
File "yt_dlp\utils\_utils.py", line 563, in decode
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value in '': line 1 column 1 (char 0)