JSONDecodeError when running `api.files.dir()`

Before running api.files.dir(), I authenticate and test using api.devices. Everything checks out.

Then, I run:

>>> api.files.dir()

and get:

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyicloud/services/ubiquity.py", line 48, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self.root, attr)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyicloud/services/ubiquity.py", line 44, in root
    self._root = self.get_node(0)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyicloud/services/ubiquity.py", line 25, in get_node
    return UbiquityNode(self, request.json())
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 894, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/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 did some shallow digging and ran:

>>> api.files._root is None
True

Has anyone seen this before? Is there a fix for this? I tested with python3.6 and python2.7. Let me know if I should provide more info.

[chadj]

The back-end for the files api changed awhile back and needs to be reimplemented. pyicloud can’t currently work with iCloud drive files.

@avanalfen This response is late but install directly from github to get a version of pyicloud that works with the new Photo’s backend.

$ pip install git+https://github.com/picklepete/pyicloud

[Quentame]

Seems to have the solution in #166.

Please create a new issue if still exists.