Received JSONDecode Error from Zendesk API request

Question

I'm following this tutorial ("Getting data from your Zendesk product") and I got a Response [200], which supposedly means that my request was successful. However when I did data = response.json(), I received the JSONDecoder error JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). I've tried debugging with the different solutions from other Stackoverflow solutions, but it hasn't worked. Please illuminate me!

Answer 1

Without being able to see the code in thq question, the first (or most likely) error is that the response type might not be json. So whilst you are getting a success (200) the return value is likely to be text.

In the past i have used something like this:

import requests

url = 'https://www.whois.com/whois/'

r = requests.get(url)


if r.status_code==200:
    # page works, check if text or json response
    if r.headers['Content-Type'] == 'text/html; charset=UTF-8':
        print(r.text)
    
    
else:
    print('no website')

The alternative response type for json is:

'application/json; charset=utf-8'

So you could check for this directly.