urequests syntax error - Raspberry Pi Pico - Badger 2040W

[red-daruma]

Hi everyone,

I’m a newbie to all things coding but thought I would try to create an API through Glitch.

I’ve made the basic form of the API - the project name is: tulip-peat-rowboat (access to api is through /api/monster)

If I use VScode and the python requests library I can pull the json data and create a basic monster.

But when I try to get the data to display using micropython and the urequests library I’m getting the following:
Data obtained!
<Response object at 2001b850>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 7, in
File “requests/init.py”, line 33, in json
ValueError: syntax error in JSON

Here is my script:
import urequests
import json

response = urequests.get(“https://tulip-peat-rowboat.glitch.me/api/monster 1”)
print(“Data obtained!”)
print(response)
print(response.json())

Can anyone explain why this syntax error is occurring. If i run one of the example scripts that comes with the Badger 2040W that connects to a weather api the json comes out fine.

I get the following through python requests library:

200
<class 'dict'>
{
"type": "Dragon",
"hp": 8,
"attack": 12,
"defense": 16
}

[jimmo]

The response is returning something that isn't JSON (look at response.content), probably an error HTML page.

My guess is that you're missing a request header that the server needs, e.g. commonly one of User-Agent or Accept.

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