From 6e928300bce4fae09b87a3d61406ffd49e4c960a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 21:22:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [flickr] handle non-JSON errors (#5131)

---
 gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py
index ea327654..f7dc3cc2 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/flickr.py
@@ -386,7 +386,11 @@ class FlickrAPI(oauth.OAuth1API):
         params["nojsoncallback"] = "1"
         if self.api_key:
             params["api_key"] = self.api_key
-        data = self.request(self.API_URL, params=params).json()
+        response = self.request(self.API_URL, params=params)
+        try:
+            data = response.json()
+        except ValueError:
+            data = {"code": -1, "message": response.content}
         if "code" in data:
             msg = data.get("message")
             self.log.debug("Server response: %s", data)