[ERROR] json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

What's Happening I am getting a json.decoder.JSONDecodeError when python executes its native decoder, specifically from the line obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()). When I get rid of the try catch it says this line TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable NoneType object. From digging in instapy's src code this all stems from self.cookie = json.loads(cookie, object_hook=self.from_json, strict=False). I've been looking around for days and found no solution that works. If anyone can help that would be amazing.

import time
import praw
import urllib.request
from selenium import webdriver
from instapy_cli import client

reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id='hidden4post', \
                     client_secret='hidden4post', \
                     user_agent='hidden4post', \
                     username='hidden4post', \
                     password='hidden4post')

posted = []

def getpost(postnum=1):
    for submission in reddit.subreddit('hidden4post').hot(limit=postnum):  # get x amount of the top posts
        if submission.title not in posted:                                    # check if post has been posted before
            posted.append(submission.title)                                     # IF it hasn't, add it to posted list
            post(submission, postnum)                                           # and post it
            time.sleep(7200)                                                    # wait some time before the next post
            getpost(1)                                                          # find a new post
    getpost(postnum+1)                                                          # IF it has, run getpost again with one
                                                                                # extra post in the search queue

def post(newpost, i):
    driver = webdriver.Chrome("venv/chromedriver.exe")
    driver.get("https://clipr.xyz/")
    time.sleep(1)

    search_input_box = driver.find_element_by_name("clip_url")
    search_input_box.send_keys(newpost.url)

    submit_clip_button = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button.clipr-button")
    submit_clip_button.click()
    time.sleep(1)

    # thumbnail = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("img")
    links = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("a")
    try:
        # urllib.request.urlretrieve(thumbnail[1].get_attribute('src'), 'thumbnails/' + str(len(posted)) + '.jpg')
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(links[10].get_attribute('href'), 'videos/' + str(len(posted)) + '.mp4')
    except:
        print("couldn't download video or thumbnail.")
        getpost(i + 1)  # if downloading video isn't working, skip this post and go to the next.
    finally:
        with client('hidden4post', 'hidden4post', cookie='cookies/hidden4post_ig.json') as instagram:
            instagram.get_cookie()
            instagram.upload('videos/' + str(len(posted)) + '.mp4', newpost.title)
            print("Posted: " + newpost.title)

getpost()

Expected behavior For everything to run smoothly and post the video to Instagram

Logs

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:/PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.2/_Projects/TopToInsta/main.py", line 53, in <module>
    getpost()
  File "E:/PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.2/_Projects/TopToInsta/main.py", line 20, in getpost
    post(submission, postnum)                                           # and post it
  File "E:/PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.2/_Projects/TopToInsta/main.py", line 47, in post
    with client('hidden4Post', 'hidden4Post', cookie='cookies/hidden4Post.json') as instagram:
  File "E:\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.2\_Projects\TopToInsta\venv\lib\site-packages\instapy_cli\__init__.py", line 5, in client
    return cli(*args, **kwargs)
  File "E:\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.2\_Projects\TopToInsta\venv\lib\site-packages\instapy_cli\cli.py", line 15, in __init__
    self.cookie = json.loads(cookie, object_hook=self.from_json, strict=False) # CAUSE OF ERROR
  File "C:\Users\Karlt\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\json\__init__.py", line 361, in loads
    return cls(**kw).decode(s)
  File "C:\Users\Karlt\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\Users\Karlt\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\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)

Env:

OS: Windows 10 v1903
Python: 3.7
instapy-cli Version: 0.0.12

b3nab / instapy-cli

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