[BUG] - TikTok sent invalid JSON back

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Describe the bug TikTok sent invalid JSON back.

The buggy code

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from TikTokApi import TikTokApi
import random
import os
api = TikTokApi.get_instance(custom_verifyFp=os.environ.get("verifyFp", None))
did = str(random.randint(10000, 999999999))
t = api.byUsername('therock', did=did, custom_verifyFp='your_verify_fp')[0]
print(t)
v_bytes = api.get_Video_By_TikTok(t, did=did, custom_verifyFp='your_verify_fp')
with open("test.mp4", 'wb') as o:
    o.write(v_bytes)

Expected behavior

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Error Trace (if any)

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# Error Trace Here

ERROR:root:TikTok response: illegal request… ERROR:root:Converting response to JSON failed ERROR:root:Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\john\anaconda3\envs\tiktok_new\lib\site-packages\TikTokApi\tiktok.py”, line 173, in getData json = r.json() File “C:\Users\john\anaconda3\envs\tiktok_new\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py”, line 900, in json return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs) File “C:\Users\john\anaconda3\envs\tiktok_new\lib\json_init_.py”, line 348, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File “C:\Users\john\anaconda3\envs\tiktok_new\lib\json\decoder.py”, line 337, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File “C:\Users\john\anaconda3\envs\tiktok_new\lib\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 above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “temp.py”, line 6, in <module> t = api.byUsername(‘therock’, did=did, custom_verifyFp=‘your_verify_fp’)[0] File “C:\Users\john\anaconda3\envs\tiktok_new\lib\site-packages\TikTokApi\tiktok.py”, line 493, in byUsername **kwargs, File “C:\Users\john\anaconda3\envs\tiktok_new\lib\site-packages\TikTokApi\tiktok.py”, line 451, in userPosts res = self.getData(url=api_url, **kwargs) File “C:\Users\john\anaconda3\envs\tiktok_new\lib\site-packages\TikTokApi\tiktok.py”, line 191, in getData raise JSONDecodeFailure() from e TikTokApi.exceptions.JSONDecodeFailure: TikTok sent invalid JSON back

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Windows 10]
• TikTokApi Version [e.g. 3.3.1] - 3.8.1

Additional context Referred to #374 for bugfix. Add any other context about the problem here.

[thanhnguyen1121]

I don’t know how to get it in python. But when I decode tiktok in web after confirming, I get an api like this: “https://www.tiktok.com/node/share/user/@your_tiktok_username?verifyFp=verify_khwsg04i_Kjx9V5Ev_u6d2_4UiG_8p2n_LAsK5DB”

[viniciusao]

I don’t know how to get it in python. But when I decode tiktok in web after confirming, I get an api like this: “https://www.tiktok.com/node/share/user/@your_tiktok_username?verifyFp=verify_khwsg04i_Kjx9V5Ev_u6d2_4UiG_8p2n_LAsK5DB”

you could instantiate TikTokApi object with the custom_verifyFp=‘yourcookievalue’ api = TikTokApi(custom_verifyFp='yourcookievalue')