Tiktok Failed to parse JSON

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Region

USA

Description

Tiktok not working, yt-dlp version I am using is a freshly compiled version from the latest master. I saw the other issue saying the fix was included in the latest master but I am still getting this issue.

Verbose log

c:\>yt-dlp --verbose https://www.tiktok.com/@therock
[debug] Command-line config: ['--verbose', 'https://www.tiktok.com/@therock']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.12.27 [6223f67a8] (win_exe)
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Python version 3.10.0 (CPython 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19042-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.3
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [tiktok:user] Extracting URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@therock
[tiktok:user] therock: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: therock
[tiktok:user] therock: Downloading user video list page 1
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying...
[tiktok:user] therock: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 1)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying...
[tiktok:user] therock: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 2)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying...
[tiktok:user] therock: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 3)
ERROR: therock: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by JSONDecodeError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  yt-dlp -U  to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 990, in _parse_json
  File "json\__init__.py", line 346, in loads
  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)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 990, in _parse_json
  File "json\__init__.py", line 346, in loads
  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\YoutubeDL.py", line 1365, in wrapper
  File "yt_dlp\YoutubeDL.py", line 1652, in <lambda>
  File "yt_dlp\utils.py", line 2729, in __getitem__
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\tiktok.py", line 500, in _entries_api
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\tiktok.py", line 75, in _call_api
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 979, in _download_json
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 965, in _download_json_handle
  File "yt_dlp\extractor\common.py", line 994, in _parse_json
yt_dlp.utils.ExtractorError: therock: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by JSONDecodeError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  yt-dlp -U  to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[tiktok:user] playlist therock: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: therock

[MinePlayersPE]

@Janitsu You are running from release, not master

[Bay40k]

@darktrend Thanks for this, was having same issue and just force reinstalled from master branch