Exception JSONDecodeError

I get this error when I try to run the script:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 232, in <module>
    org_boards_data['me'] = requests.get(my_boards_url).json()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 826, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 319, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

• I have double checked that the environment variables are set.
• I have installed requests via “pip3 install requests”
• I’m running python 3.5.2 on Mac OS X El Capitan installed via homebrew (python3)

Any idea? thanks

[jtpio]

Hi,

Quickest way to debug it would be to add a print statement to display the my_board_url variable to check its value. It should be something like this: https://api.trello.com/1/members/me/boards?key=YOUR_KEY&token=YOUR_TOKEN Paste the URL in a web browser to see what you get. Could it be related to the environment variables being reset when restarting the shell?

Let me know if it helps!

[mjf-ans]

I’ve had this happen intermittently, with a large board where sometimes the API fails with status 504 Gateway Timeout.

I’ve created https://github.com/jtpio/trello-full-backup/pull/37 which makes it a bit clearer what’s happening by raising an HTTPError instead of JSONDecodeError. (It was trying to JSON-decode the HTML error body.)