client.getUsers("FRIEND'S NAME") doesn't work

[hman190]

Hi,
I used the example from README, but it doesn't work at all. Can you give me some advices? My code is as follows:

import fbchat
client = fbchat.Client("MY_ID", "MY_PASSWORD")
friends = client.getUsers("Ning")  # I tried a friend's name
friend = friends[0]

After executing the code, it shows the following error messages:

friends = client.getUsers('Ning')
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/fbchat/client.py", line 189, in getUsers
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/fbchat/utils.py", line 18, in get_json
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Expecting ',' delimiter: line 1 column 63 (char 62)

Thanks!

[PidgeyL]

Judging from the name, I guess your response data might contain non-ascii chars, am I correct?

[afonsocarlos]

Download the repo on your computer, then edit utils.py file. Try to change get_json(text) function from this: return json.loads(re.sub(r"for.*(.*;.*;.*).*;", '', text.encode('utf-8').decode("unicode-escape"), 1)) to this: return json.loads(re.sub(r"^[^{]*", '', text, 1)). Save the file and install fbchat again via setup.py from the folder you've downloaded.

code by @HashirZahir on pull request #32

[neilyueh]

thanks. return json.loads(re.sub(r"^[^{]*", '', text, 1))
fix the issue for me.