Python requests:- simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Question

I am trying to get some order details using the python requests library. The API is working fine with the postman, but when I try to run it with python the following error occurs.

simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

I am using the following python code to call the API in the screenshots:

import requests
url = "https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/purchases"
header = {"Content-Type":"application/json", "Authorization":'token {}'.format('eyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')}
data = {"from_date":"2021-06-15T07:19:32", "to_date":"2021-09-16 00:01:09"}
response = requests.get(url, params=data, headers=header)
print(response.json())

The result I am getting is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 897, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 518, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 370, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 400, in raw_decode
    return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end())
simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Answer 1

The issue was I need to add a text "Bearer " in front of the token passed in the Autorization parameter of header section as the following because the token is to be passed as a Bearer Token:

header = {"Content-Type":"application/json", "Authorization":'Bearer eyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'}