raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None

[Manohar Rao]

I am getting the below error when I try to translate a Portuguese tweet to English.
"raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None"

I have tried to encode the string, tried to limit the string to only 3000 characters nothing works.
Please advise how can i fix this?
The issues which were raised by others and the solutions provided are not working for me

Below is my code.

from googletrans import Translator

translator = Translator()
d = 'Eu fujo de discussão na internet como o diabo foge da cruz,  leio e expresso minha opinião p mim mesmo pq todos tão afim de lacrar além de ouvir e trocar idéias'
d = d.encode('utf-8')  
d = str(d)
translations = translator.translate(d, dest='en')
print(translations.origin, '\n -> \n', translations.text)

Error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Stramzik\Desktop\SentizAnalyzer\jsf.py", line 8, in <module>
    translations = translator.translate(d, dest='en')
  File "C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 172, in translate
    data = self._translate(text, dest, src)
  File "C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 81, in _translate
    data = utils.format_json(r.text)
  File "C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\googletrans\utils.py", line 62, in format_json
    converted = legacy_format_json(original)
  File "C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\googletrans\utils.py", line 54, in legacy_format_json
    converted = json.loads(text)
  File "C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\json\__init__.py", line 348, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\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)
[Finished in 4.3s with exit code 1]
[shell_cmd: python -u "C:\Users\Stramzik\Desktop\SentizAnalyzer\jsf.py"]
[dir: C:\Users\Stramzik\Desktop\SentizAnalyzer]
[path: C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Webex\Webex\Applications;C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Modeler\18.1.1\ext\bin\spss.TMWBServer\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Sennheiser\SoftphoneSDK\;C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37;C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Scripts;C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Roaming\nltk_data;C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Stramzik\AppData\Local\Box\Box Edit\]

[NawtJ0sh]

try removing the "d = d.encode('utf-8') "

[Manohar Rao]

If I wont encode and if the tweet contains an emoji it Throws JSONDecodeError error.

[NawtJ0sh]

oh, is that how you have the code exactly in the file?

[Manohar Rao]

Yes, Well Its so weird but it works for some time and it stops all of a sudden.
Right now the above code is running with no error. But when I submitted the issue yesterday it was throwing the above error.
I think the API wasblocking my IP from accessing it. Please assist me in bypass that?

[NawtJ0sh]

Yeah it might of ip banned you temporary.
Could try this aswell:

def translate(trans):
    try:
        trans = raw_input("Enter word/words here: ")
        translations = translator.translate([trans], dest='en')
        for translation in translations:
            print(translation.origin, ' English -> ', translation.text)
    except:
        try:
            trans_encode = trans.encode("ascii", "ignore")
            translations = translator.translate([trans_encode], dest='en')
            for translation in translations:
                print(translation.origin, ' English -> ', translation.text)
        except:
            pass

trans = ''
threading.Thread(translate(trans)).start()

[Austin Marino]

This is what I had to do to bypass their API call restriction... I use a VPN, specifically Nord-Vpn, so to do it the way I did you would need to be able to connect/disconnect from/to a VPN through the terminal...

    def translate_text(text, dest_language="en"):
        # Used to translate using the googletrans library
        import json
        translator = googletrans.Translator()
        try:
            translation = translator.translate(text=text, dest=dest_language)
        except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
            # api call restriction
            process = subprocess.Popen(["nordvpn", "d"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            process.wait()
            process = subprocess.Popen(["nordvpn", "c", "canada"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            process.wait()
            return Process_Data.translate_text(text=text, dest_language=dest_language)
        return translation

[Rahil Vora]

This is what I had to do to bypass their API call restriction... I use a VPN, specifically Nord-Vpn, so to do it the way I did you would need to be able to connect/disconnect from/to a VPN through the terminal...

    def translate_text(text, dest_language="en"):
        # Used to translate using the googletrans library
        import json
        translator = googletrans.Translator()
        try:
            translation = translator.translate(text=text, dest=dest_language)
        except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
            # api call restriction
            process = subprocess.Popen(["nordvpn", "d"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            process.wait()
            process = subprocess.Popen(["nordvpn", "c", "canada"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            process.wait()
            return Process_Data.translate_text(text=text, dest_language=dest_language)
        return translation

I did import "subprocess" but how would "Process_Data" work? as is I tried pip install Process_Data but didn't think it worked

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