Weird/intermittent Behaviour: JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) about spotipy

[stephanebruckert]

Issue being 5 year old and a lot has improved since, would need to know if this is still happening. Closing for now

[tahsinac]

Have been using the library with no issues daily up until today. Getting this error now all of a sudden.

File "C:\projects\nplyrbot\nplyrbotpy.py", line 99, in <module> lyrics_current, current = nplyrbot() File "C:\projects\nplyrbot\nplyrbotpy.py", line 8, in nplyrbot token = util.prompt_for_user_token(username, scope, client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret, redirect_uri=redirect_uri) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spotipy\util.py", line 88, in prompt_for_user_token token_info = sp_oauth.get_cached_token() File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spotipy\oauth2.py", line 253, in get_cached_token token_info = json.loads(token_info_string) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json\__init__.py", line 354, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py", line 339, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)