[Patreon][error] JSONDecodeError, cannot download

[MarqFJA87]

I keep getting a JSONDecodeError download failure whenever I plug in a Patreon link; I face no problems with other domains. Below is an example log; the link is SFW, to be clear.

D:\Programs\Bulk downloaders\gallery-dl>gallery-dl https://www.patreon.com/posts/lazulightpp-89659199 --verbose
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.25.8
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.10.0 - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.31.0 - urllib3 1.26.7
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['%USERPROFILE%\\gallery-dl\\config.json']
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://www.patreon.com/posts/lazulightpp-89659199'
[patreon][debug] TLS 1.2 disabled.
[patreon][debug] Using PatreonPostExtractor for 'https://www.patreon.com/posts/lazulightpp-89659199'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.patreon.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://www.patreon.com:443 "GET /posts/lazulightpp-89659199 HTTP/1.1" 200 None
[patreon][error] An unexpected error occurred: JSONDecodeError - Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Please run gallery-dl again with the --verbose flag, copy its output and report this issue on https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues .
[patreon][debug]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\gallery_dl\job.py", line 96, in run
    for msg in extractor:
  File "D:\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\gallery_dl\extractor\patreon.py", line 38, in items
    for post in self.posts():
  File "D:\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\gallery_dl\extractor\patreon.py", line 372, in posts
    post = self._extract_bootstrap(page)["post"]
  File "D:\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\gallery_dl\extractor\patreon.py", line 253, in _extract_bootstrap
    return util.json_loads(text.extr(
  File "D:\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "D:\Programs\Python\Python310\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)

[mikf]

Duplicate of #4547

[biggestsonicfan]

Seeing something similar on current dev branch:

gallery-dl: Version 1.26.2-dev
gallery-dl: Python 3.11.5 - Linux-6.5.8-1-default-x86_64-with-glibc2.38
gallery-dl: requests 2.31.0 - urllib3 2.0.7
gallery-dl: Configuration Files ['${HOME}/.gallery-dl.conf']
gallery-dl: Starting DownloadJob for 'https://www.patreon.com/XYZ'
patreon: Using PatreonCreatorExtractor for 'https://www.patreon.com/XYZ'
patreon: TLS 1.2 disabled.
patreon: Loading cookies from '/home/NAME/gallery-dl/cookies/patreon.txt'
urllib3.connectionpool: Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.patreon.com:443
urllib3.connectionpool: https://www.patreon.com:443 "GET /landidzu/posts HTTP/1.1" 301 None
urllib3.connectionpool: https://www.patreon.com:443 "GET /Landidzu/posts HTTP/1.1" 200 None
patreon: None
patreon: Unable to extract campaign ID (JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[biggestsonicfan]

Fixed with #4738