DOWNLOAD ERROR FIXED

[Nestak2]

See this quick and dirty fix, it solved the download problem for me! I just erased the pre-existing code in the file google_images_download.py and substituted it with the provided code by the user

[hermannsblum]

Nope, just tested, that fix does not work:

python3.6/site-packages/google_images_download/google_images_download.py in _get_image_objects(self, s)
    756         object_raw = str(s[start_object:end_object])
    757         object_decode = bytes(object_raw, "utf-8").decode("unicode_escape")
--> 758         image_objects = json.loads(object_decode)[31][0][12][2]
    759         image_objects = [x for x in image_objects if x[0]==1]
    760         return image_objects

/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py in loads(s, encoding, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
    352             parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
    353             parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
--> 354         return _default_decoder.decode(s)
    355     if cls is None:
    356         cls = JSONDecoder

/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py in decode(self, s, _w)
    337 
    338         """
--> 339         obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
    340         end = _w(s, end).end()
    341         if end != len(s):

/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py in raw_decode(self, s, idx)
    355             obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
    356         except StopIteration as err:
--> 357             raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
    358         return obj, end

JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[nuertey]

Likewise still observing the same error that @hermannsblum is seeing even after the fix @Nestak2. My observed error is:

Item no.: 1 --> Item name = Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
Evaluating...
Starting Download...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/rena/MyEnv37/bin/googleimagesdownload", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/rena/MyEnv37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google_images_download/google_images_download.py", line 1011, in main
    paths,errors = response.download(arguments)  #wrapping response in a variable just for consistency
  File "/home/rena/MyEnv37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google_images_download/google_images_download.py", line 838, in download
    paths, errors = self.download_executor(arguments)
  File "/home/rena/MyEnv37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google_images_download/google_images_download.py", line 965, in download_executor
    items,errorCount,abs_path = self._get_all_items(raw_html,main_directory,dir_name,limit,arguments)    #get all image items and download images
  File "/home/rena/MyEnv37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google_images_download/google_images_download.py", line 768, in _get_all_items
    image_objects = self._get_image_objects(page)
  File "/home/rena/MyEnv37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google_images_download/google_images_download.py", line 758, in _get_image_objects
    image_objects = json.loads(object_decode)[31][0][12][2]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/__init__.py", line 348, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/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)

[cooperdk]

I get an identical error.

File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 832, in download paths, errors = self.download_executor(arguments) File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 959, in download_executor items,errorCount,abs_path = self._get_all_items(raw_html,main_directory,dir_name,limit,arguments) #get all image items and download images File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 762, in _get_all_items image_objects = self._get_image_objects(page) File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 753, in _get_image_objects image_objects = json.loads(object_decode)[31][0][12][2] File "c:\python\lib\json\__init__.py", line 348, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "c:\python\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "c:\python\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)

[AmitSharma1127]

Same error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\Scripts\googleimagesdownload-script.py", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('google-images-download==2.8.0', 'console_scripts', 'googleimagesdownload')()
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google_images_download-2.8.0-py3.7.egg\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 1006, in main      
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google_images_download-2.8.0-py3.7.egg\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 833, in download   
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google_images_download-2.8.0-py3.7.egg\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 960, in download_executor
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google_images_download-2.8.0-py3.7.egg\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 763, in _get_all_items
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google_images_download-2.8.0-py3.7.egg\google_images_download\google_images_download.py", line 753, in _get_image_objects
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\lib\json\__init__.py", line 348, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\Users\Amit\Anaconda3\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)

[Geremia]

This seems to be a duplicate of #315.