Error in line 184 and 154

[mparackal]

I am not a programmer but can find my way through codes like a blind man. So, can you help me, please? I get the following error, not sure what I am doing wrong. Also, the current Facebook API version is 2.12. This code is point to version 2.9 (base = "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.9" # line 139).

Thank you & Kind regard

Mathew

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\parma73p\Desktop\Python\get_fb_posts_fb_page.py", line 184, in
scrapeFacebookPageFeedStatus(page_id, access_token, since_date, until_date)
File "C:\Users\parma73p\Desktop\Python\get_fb_posts_fb_page.py", line 154, in scrapeFacebookPageFeedStatus
statuses = json.loads(request_until_succeed(url))
File "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\24\Python3\lib\json_init_.py", line 312, in loads
s.class.name))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

[semmet95]

Hey there.
Can you share the URL you're trying to scrape data from?

[mparackal]

thanks singh-95.

The URL is https://www.facebook.com/NZMSCAlpine/

[semmet95]

@mparackal the script is successfully scraping data from the page you shared when I test it. Can you please share your code?

[trevdog94]

I altered the request_until_succeed to look like this and it resolved the issue for me:

def request_until_succeed(url):
    req = Request(url)
    success = False
    while success is False:
        try:
            response = urlopen(req)
            **res = response.read()
            res = res.decode("utf-8")**
            if response.getcode() == 200:
                success = True
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)
            time.sleep(5)

            print("Error for URL {}: {}".format(url, datetime.datetime.now()))
            print("Retrying.")

    return res