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CLI Invalid Character #310

Closed pertrai1 closed 3 years ago

pertrai1 commented 3 years ago

Hi, I wanted to try out the freelancer-rates exercise locally rather than in the editor, but I got this response when I tried to download from cli:

$ exercism download --exercise=freelancer-rates --track=javascript
Error: failed to parse API error response: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value

My laptop is Windows 10 Home version 20H2

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angelikatyborska commented 3 years ago

Did you update your CLI settings to use exercism.lol's API base URL and your secret token?

"invalid character '<'" sounds like a HTML response when a JSON response was expected. My blind guess would be cause your API config still points to exercism.io and that website is currently down 🙂.

FYI after the official launch you would need to change the configuration again if you do change it to use exercism.lol.

pertrai1 commented 3 years ago

@angelikatyborska, great catch. Thank you for the quick response.