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'Expecting value' is raised when no JSON value starts at the position. requests re-raises it as requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError from Response.json().\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nMisleading approaches:\n- Retrying the parse with json.loads(strict=False): strictness only concerns control characters, not non-JSON bodies.\n\nLimitations:\n- exact string is generic; match together with product/context\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/ca0cdf42cf2181c345739bc0e24c8ff771bd8c38/Lib/json/decoder.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): JSONDecodeError formats '%s: line %d column %d (char %d)'; 'Expecting value' raised when a value cannot be scanned.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/611c6162cbc4ac2020a2f91c7cfa4f3abf9bbb60/src/requests/models.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Response.json() catches json JSONDecodeError and raises requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos).\n\nSearch phrasings: requests json Expecting value line 1 column 1 char 0; 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