Grabing posts from Pleroma fails

[Eskuero]

1. Clean run without any toots.db generated yet
2. Bot account is following this accounts (raru.me are mastodon and the other two are pleroma instances)
   • [email protected]
   • [email protected]
   • [email protected]
   • [email protected]
3. Running the bot:

Using config.json as configuration file
Downloading posts for user @[email protected], starting from 0
WebFingering...
Using standard mode
Downloading and saving posts............................................ Done!
Downloading posts for user @[email protected], starting from 0
WebFingering...
Using standard mode
Downloading and saving posts................................. Done!
Downloading posts for user @[email protected], starting from 0
WebFingering...
Using standard mode
Downloading and saving posts........... Done!
Downloading posts for user @[email protected], starting from 0
WebFingering...
Using standard mode
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/main.py", line 215, in
j = r.json()
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 897, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/init.py", line 357, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/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)

4. As it can be seen on the fedi.absturztau.me fails to grab posts.
5. Re-run the sync:

Using config.json as configuration file
Downloading posts for user @[email protected], starting from 40dd49ac-3b6e-4ea6-9f99-7415a57bed3c
WebFingering...
Using standard mode
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/main.py", line 215, in
j = r.json()
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 897, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/init.py", line 357, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/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)

6. And now the other pleroma instance (kitsune.cafe) starts failing too. I tried waiting for half an hour in case it was a rate-limit but it still kept failing

[w3bb]

For anyone reading this issue, I've made an alternative scraper that isn't broken with Pleroma. It should work perfectly with your existing toots.db. Although make sure to do backups.

https://git.sr.ht/~welt/fuckpleroma

Install Go, and run go get -u spiderden.net/go/fuckpleroma

The binary should end up in your $GOPATH, which by default is ~/go/bin.