VSCO.co An unexpected error occurred: JSONDecodeError - Expecting value: line 1 column 67581 (char 67580)

[zone559]

C:\Users\Desktop\Downloads>gallery-dl --verbose https://vsco.co/culture-vulture/
[config][error] JSONDecodeError when loading 'C:\Users\Desktop\AppData\Roaming\gallery-dl\config.json': Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 7 column 9 (char 228)
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.28.4 - Executable (stable/windows)
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.8.10 - Windows-10-10.0.19045
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.32.3 - urllib3 2.2.3
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files []
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting DownloadJob for 'https://vsco.co/culture-vulture/'
[vsco][debug] Using VscoUserExtractor for 'https://vsco.co/culture-vulture/'
[vsco][debug] Using VscoGalleryExtractor for 'https://vsco.co/culture-vulture/gallery'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): vsco.co:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://vsco.co:443 "GET /culture-vulture/gallery HTTP/11" 200 None
[vsco][error] An unexpected error occurred: JSONDecodeError - Expecting value: line 1 column 67581 (char 67580). Please run gallery-dl again with the --verbose flag, copy its output and report this issue on https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues .
[vsco][debug]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gallery_dl\job.pyc", line 152, in run
File "gallery_dl\extractor\vsco.pyc", line 33, in items
File "gallery_dl\extractor\vsco.pyc", line 144, in images
File "gallery_dl\extractor\vsco.pyc", line 73, in _extract_preload_state
File "json\decoder.pyc", line 337, in decode
File "json\decoder.pyc", line 355, in raw_decode
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 67581 (char 67580)

---

how json is strurture

{
"media": [
{
"type": "image",
"image": {
"_id": "6797a402862a8f141f04157e",
"grid_name": "for the culture lil bih",
"adaptive_base": "/i/6797a402862a8f141f04157e",
"site_id": 155056545,
"site_profile_image_url": "i.vsco.co/5e9c320a529cfb63f554b6ae",
"description": "",
"description_anchored": "",
"copyright_classes": [
"reserved"
],
"capture_date": 1737991171199,
"capture_date_ms": 1737991171199,
"upload_date": 1737991171199,
"last_updated": 1737991171467,
"location_coords": null,
"has_location": false,
"feature_link": null,
"is_featured": false,
"is_video": false,
"perma_domain": "vsco.co/culture-vulture",
"perma_subdomain": "culture-vulture",
"permalink": "http://vsco.co/culture-vulture/media/6797a402862a8f141f04157e",
"share_link": "http://vsco.co/culture-vulture/media/6797a402862a8f141f04157e?share=MTczNzk5MTE3MQ%3D%3D",
"responsive_url": "im.vsco.co/aws-us-west-2/ddaf75/155056545/6797a402862a8f141f04157e/vsco_012725.jpg",
"show_location": 0,
"image_status": {
"code": 1,
"time": 1737991171191
},
"image_meta": {
"copyright": "Copyright 2025. All rights reserved.",
"make": "Apple",
"model": "iPhone",
"orientation": 1,
"software": "VSCO",
"extension": 2,
"file_size": 229576,
"file_hash": "343aab7b6df057cbe395e4dfa715946a"
},
"height": 1179,
"width": 1170
}
},

Source: https://vsco.co/api/3.0/medias/profile?site_id=155056545

---

this python code get json code

import requests

# Define the URL
url = "https://vsco.co/api/3.0/medias/profile?site_id=155056545"

# Define the headers
headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
    "Authorization": "Bearer 7356455548d0a1d886db010883388d08be84d0c9",  # Use the token in the Authorization header
}

# Send the GET request
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

# Check if the request was successful
if response.status_code == 200:
    # Print the JSON content
    print(response.json())  # Use .json() to parse the response as JSON
else:
    print(f"Failed to retrieve data. Status code: {response.status_code}")
    print(f"Response: {response.text}")  # Print the response for debugging

[CasualYT31]

Seems like the offender is "prevPageToken":undefined,, right at the end of the JSON object extracted from the VSCO page. I added a dodgy replace() call to get rid of it and extraction seems to work without any issues.

[stefinuxha]

I've tried the fix locally and is working thanks!

Btw I had slightly different error char: [vsco][error] An unexpected error occurred: JSONDecodeError - Expecting value: line 1 column 68300 (char 68299).

[CasualYT31]

@stefinuxha Yes, the character will be different for each user since each user will have a different JSON object (and the object will change for the same user if they e.g. upload a new photo).