python: Google Street View url request cannot load as json()

Question

I want to use python to grab Google Street View image. For example:

'url=https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?location=48.15763817939112,11.533002555370581&size=512x512&key=

I run the following code:

import requests
result = requests.get(url)
result.json()

But it comes out an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-69-180c2a4b335d>", line 1, in <module>
    result.json()

  File "/home/kang/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 826, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)

  File "/home/kang/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 516, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)

  File "/home/kang/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 370, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s)

  File "/home/kang/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 400, in raw_decode
    return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end())

JSONDecodeError: Expecting value

The response of this url is:

How to fix that? Thank you very much.

Answer 1

There is no JSON in the response that is coming back to you, which is why it is giving the error.