[plug] Fwd: python issue

[Lance Duivenbode]

Hi Gavin,

Have you got a link from which I grab these scripts? A quick DDG 
(DuckDuckGo) search turns up:

     http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/sbs_downloader

Is this the correct link?

Looking at the stack trace I'd hazard a guess that SBS (or their content 
provider) has changed the remote API somehow - you tend to see these 'No 
JSON object could be decoded' messages when a 404 or the like is served 
instead of a valid JSON string. Obviously I'll need to trace it further 
to confirm this.

Cheers,
Lance

On 16/03/12 20:40, Gavin Chester wrote:
> I take it from the lack of responses that no one else is suffering 
> errors  with either of the stream capture scripts. So, I'm hoping that 
> posting the error report will allow some python gurus to discern where 
> the error may lie. The only change to my system in recent days is to 
> have upgraded my kernel.
>
> I can't find any report of error from others in the last few days, but 
> here is a copy of the error report:
> ____________________________________________
> gavin at gavin-Inspiron-N5050 ~/Videos $ ./sbs-downloader-ondemand
> Script to download programs from the SBS On-Demand service.  Please 
> don't panic - I'm retrieving the feed of all the programs available... 
> Which it turns out takes some time :)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./sbs-downloader-ondemand", line 113, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "./sbs-downloader-ondemand", line 95, in main
>     possibleVideos = 
> programs.getVideos(itemsPerPage=programs.totalResults)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SbsOnDemand/Feed.py", 
> line 173, in getTotalResults
>     self._updateFeed(True)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SbsOnDemand/Feed.py", 
> line 98, in _updateFeed
>     feed = json.load(page)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 
> 329, in load
>     use_decimal=use_decimal, **kw)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 
> 385, in loads
>     return _default_decoder.decode(s)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 
> 402, in decode
>     obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 
> 420, in raw_decode
>     raise JSONDecodeError("No JSON object could be decoded", s, idx)
> simplejson.decoder.JSONDecodeError: No JSON object could be decoded: 
> line 2 column 1 (char 1)
> ____________________________________________
>
>  I think it may be related to a kernel upgrade done a few days ago. 
> I'm running 3.0.0-16-generic.
>
> Hope you have some advice.
>
> Gavin Chester
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: python issue
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:00:05 +0800
> From: Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
>
> I have been very happily using two python-based utilities
> "sbs-downloader-ondemand" and "python-iview". However, neither will run
> atm, each app reporting python run errors. I won't clog your reading
> pleasure with snippets of the errors atm, just checking if anyone is
> similarly recently plagued by errors with these apps?
>
> Gavin
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