Grabing posts from Pleroma fails

[Eskuero]

1. Clean run without any toots.db generated yet
2. Bot account is following this accounts (raru.me are mastodon and the other two are pleroma instances)
   • bunni@kitsune.cafe
   • bunni@raru.re
   • stellar@raru.re
   • Stellar@fedi.absturztau.be
3. Running the bot:

Using config.json as configuration file Downloading posts for user @bunni@kitsune.cafe, starting from 0 WebFingering... Using standard mode Downloading and saving posts............................................ Done! Downloading posts for user @bunni@raru.re, starting from 0 WebFingering... Using standard mode Downloading and saving posts................................. Done! Downloading posts for user @stellar@raru.re, starting from 0 WebFingering... Using standard mode Downloading and saving posts........... Done! Downloading posts for user @Stellar@fedi.absturztau.be, starting from 0 WebFingering... Using standard mode Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/main.py", line 215, in j = r.json() File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 897, in json return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/init.py", line 357, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/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)

4. As it can be seen on the fedi.absturztau.me fails to grab posts.
5. Re-run the sync:

Using config.json as configuration file Downloading posts for user @bunni@kitsune.cafe, starting from 40dd49ac-3b6e-4ea6-9f99-7415a57bed3c WebFingering... Using standard mode Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/main.py", line 215, in j = r.json() File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 897, in json return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/init.py", line 357, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/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)

6. And now the other pleroma instance (kitsune.cafe) starts failing too. I tried waiting for half an hour in case it was a rate-limit but it still kept failing

[w3bb]

For anyone reading this issue, I've made an alternative scraper that isn't broken with Pleroma. It should work perfectly with your existing toots.db. Although make sure to do backups.

https://git.sr.ht/~welt/fuckpleroma

Install Go, and run go get -u spiderden.net/go/fuckpleroma

The binary should end up in your $GOPATH, which by default is ~/go/bin.