[tiktok] JSON parse error

Checklist

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Region

US

Description

This is the same-looking bug as #2611, #2135, #2488, #2595, #2534, #2298, and probably others. Was solved by #2449 but this doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, as of earlier today.

I’m guessing new version number? I don’t have the MITM setup that seems to be needed to get them myself, but I can try to put it together if this is going to keep happening.

Verbose log

$ ~/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.sh -vU https://www.tiktok.com/@uaptiktok
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.tiktok.com/@uaptiktok']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.02.04 [c1653e9ef] (source)
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Plugins: ['SamplePluginIE', 'SamplePluginPP']
[debug] Git HEAD: a3125791c
[debug] Python version 3.8.10 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-5.13.0-27-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.4, ffprobe 4.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome, secretstorage, sqlite
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2022.02.04, Current version: 2022.02.04
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.02.04)
[debug] [tiktok:user] Extracting URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@uaptiktok
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading webpage
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 1 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 2 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 3 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 4 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying...
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 1)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 1 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 1)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 2 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 1)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 3 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 1)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 4 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 1)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying...
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 2)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 1 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 2)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 2 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 2)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 3 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 2)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 4 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 2)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying...
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 3)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 1 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 3)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 2 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 3)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 3 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 3)
WARNING: [tiktok:user] Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Retrying... (attempt 4 of 5)
[tiktok:user] uaptiktok: Downloading user video list page 1 (attempt 3)
ERROR: [tiktok:user] uaptiktok: uaptiktok: 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 , filling out the "Broken site" issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using -U (caused by JSONDecodeError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp , filling out the "Broken site" issue template properly. Confirm you are on the latest version using -U
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 612, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py", line 597, in _real_extract
    thumbnail = traverse_obj(videos, (0, 'author', 'avatar_larger', 'url_list', 0))
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/utils.py", line 5142, in traverse_obj
    val = _traverse_obj(obj, path)
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/utils.py", line 5128, in _traverse_obj
    obj = obj[key]
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/utils.py", line 2745, in __getitem__
    self.__cache.extend(itertools.islice(self.__iterable, n))
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py", line 566, in _video_entries_api
    post_list = self._call_api('aweme/post', query, username,
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py", line 115, in _call_api
    raise e
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py", line 108, in _call_api
    res = self._call_api_impl(ep, real_query, manifest_app_version, video_id, fatal, note, errnote)
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py", line 45, in _call_api_impl
    return self._download_json(
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 992, in _download_json
    res = self._download_json_handle(
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 978, in _download_json_handle
    return self._parse_json(
  File "/home/xxx/bin/yt-dlp-unstable/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1007, in _parse_json
    raise ExtractorError(errmsg, cause=ve)

[MinePlayersPE]

TikTok(User)IE inexplicably works now for some reason

[pukkandan]

Closing since it seems to have fixed itself