JSONDecodeError while translating

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Googletrans version:

• 4.0.0rc1
• 3.1.0a0
• 3.0.0
• 2.x

I'm submitting a ...

• bug report
• feature request

Current behavior:
During translation, a JSON decode error occured.

Expected behavior:
Translate and correctly return the translated text.

Steps to reproduce:
It randomly happear during a translation loop. Retrying the same loop, it doesn't happend.

Related code:
File: googletrans/client.py:198
data = json.loads(resp), where resp seems to be None.

Other information:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "translate.py", line 95, in <module>
    output[lang][page_name][key] = translator.translate(value, src='en', dest=lang).text
  File "[redacted]/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/googletrans/client.py", line 218, in translate
    data = json.loads(resp)
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 357, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/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)

[vasamaximov]

The reason the resp is None could be the Google API returns 400 or 404 for translator's requests (which was in my case).
I was initializing Translator instance as:
Translator(service_urls=['translate.googleapis.com'])
which was casing the requests to fail with 404. Changed to:
Translator(service_urls=['translate.google.com'])
and it fixed the problem for me.

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