Error adding client

[Tomas Hellström]

Recent myfitnesspal pypi package returns an error when login.
using client = myfitnesspal.Client('username', password='correct_password')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/myfitnesspal/client.py", line 58, in __init__
    self._login()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/myfitnesspal/client.py", line 111, in _login
    self._auth_data = self._get_auth_data()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/myfitnesspal/client.py", line 132, in _get_auth_data
    return result.json()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 900, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 357, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/local/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)

[Adam Coddington]

I'm afraid I can't reproduce that --

In [1]: import myfitnesspal

In [2]: client = myfitnesspal.Client('my_username', password='mypassword')

In [3]: client.get_date(2021,5,9)
Out[3]: <05/09/21 {'calories': 606.0, 'carbohydrates': 57.0, 'fat': 14.0, 'protein': 58.0}>

First -- make sure you're using the latest version of mfp --

In [5]: import myfitnesspal

In [6]: myfitnesspal.__version__
Out[6]: '1.16.4'

If you see a value other than 1.16.4, you just need to update the library to the latest version.

My only real guess beyond that would be that you're not actually entering the correct password -- note that the username/password you need to enter are not the username/password for whichever form of social auth (e.g. google/facebook) you might usually use for logging-in -- it has to be your actual myfitnesspal username and password.

You can double-check your username by going to https://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/settings and clicking on "Change username". It'll there show you your current username. There's of course no way to see your existing password, but you can also try changing your password from the "Change password" link on that same page.

Good luck; I hope this helps!

[Tomas Hellström]

hmm weird, I get version 1.13.4 when I use import myfitnesspal

never mind it was cached

[Tomas Hellström]

With the latest version it worked OK. Sorry and thanks for the help