Error when chatting with a new Character.

[K0sh1R1zumu]

Whenever I start a chat with a character that I have no previous history of chatting with, I encounter an Exception with the JSONDecodeError.
The Raise Exception is:

Exception has occurred: JSONDecodeError
Expecting value: line 2 column 1 (char 1)
StopIteration: 1

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

  File "C:\Users\User\Test\app.py", line 9, in <module>
    chat = client.chat.get_chat(char)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 2 column 1 (char 1)

I read from a previous issue that this exception is only raised when the server of CharacterAI is either down or overloaded. But this doesn't seem to be the case in this error.

[Karvp]

Hi there,
Your error is caused by the server's response when you attempt to chat with a new character. Please look at the response below:
there is no history between user and character
Yes, it came with a 404 error and is not in JSON format; that's why there is an error. To fix this, you should try to maintain the library on your own to handle this error.

P/s: Try to play with character.ai's API to understand it better. You can use the Chrome devtools like I did.