Document is empty

[fheilz]

I'm getting this error when I try to run:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pyquery\pyquery.py", line 95, in fromstring
result = getattr(etree, meth)(context)
File "src\lxml\etree.pyx", line 3213, in lxml.etree.fromstring
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1876, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1764, in lxml.etree._parseDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1126, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 600, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 710, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 639, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
File "", line 17
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Start tag expected, '<' not found, line 17, column 1

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Twitter Stock Market\current.py", line 16, in
for tweet in get_tweets('trump', pages=3):
File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\twitter_scraper.py", line 78, in get_tweets
yield from gen_tweets(pages)
File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\twitter_scraper.py", line 26, in gen_tweets
url='bunk', default_encoding='utf-8')
File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests_html.py", line 419, in init
element=PyQuery(html)('html') or PyQuery(f'{html}')('html'),
File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pyquery\pyquery.py", line 255, in init
elements = fromstring(context, self.parser)
File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pyquery\pyquery.py", line 99, in fromstring
result = getattr(lxml.html, meth)(context)
File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\lxml\html_init_.py", line 876, in fromstring
doc = document_fromstring(html, parser=parser, base_url=base_url, **kw)
File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\lxml\html_init_.py", line 765, in document_fromstring
"Document is empty")
lxml.etree.ParserError: Document is empty

[thorsummoner]

seconded

[ParthS007]

Closing due to inactivity 👍

[james-see]

I am getting this same issue

[adamhrv]

I had same error as @LiquidPrototype @thorsummoner
it seems to happen because the r.json in twitter_scraper.py line 26 yields an empty json response for the items_html value

{'has_more_items': False,
 'items_html': '\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n',
 'min_position': None,
 'new_latent_count': 0}

breaking the while loop when encountering the empty html seems to avoid the error

while pages > 0:
  try:
      items_html = r.json()['items_html'].strip()
    if not items_html:
        break # exit the loop if the items_html is empty

[james-see]

Worth checking out my repo I made to get twitter data for bot identification purposes. I was using this repo until it broke for me too. https://github.com/jamesacampbell/botrnot and it is pip3 install botrnot