Error

Before the error happened, I was…
Installed a deck and clicked sync

Error message (don't change this)
Anki 26.09.2 (bb0dd6d1) (ao)
Python 3.13.15 Qt 6.11.2 PyQt 6.11.0
Platform: Windows-11-10.0.26200-SP0

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "D:\a\anki\anki\out\installer\build\anki\windows\visualstudio\x64\Release\app_packages\requests\models.py", line 1116, in json

  File "json\__init__.py", line 352, in loads

  File "json\decoder.py", line 345, in decode

  File "json\decoder.py", line 363, in raw_decode

json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:


Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "D:\a\anki\anki\out\installer\build\anki\windows\visualstudio\x64\Release\app_packages\aqt\taskman.py", line 152, in raise_exception

  File "D:\a\anki\anki\out\installer\build\anki\windows\visualstudio\x64\Release\app_packages\aqt\taskman.py", line 148, in _on_closures_pending

  File "D:\a\anki\anki\out\installer\build\anki\windows\visualstudio\x64\Release\app_packages\aqt\taskman.py", line 88, in <lambda>

  File "D:\a\anki\anki\out\installer\build\anki\windows\visualstudio\x64\Release\app_packages\aqt\operations\__init__.py", line 253, in wrapped_done

  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1322529746\gui\media_sync.py", line 140, in on_failure
    raise exception

  File "concurrent\futures\thread.py", line 59, in run

  File "D:\a\anki\anki\out\installer\build\anki\windows\visualstudio\x64\Release\app_packages\aqt\operations\__init__.py", line 243, in wrapped_op

  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1322529746\gui\media_sync.py", line 144, in <lambda>
    op=lambda _: self._update_deck_media_and_download_missing_media(),
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1322529746\gui\media_sync.py", line 271, in _update_deck_media_and_download_missing_media
    self._update_deck_media(ankihub_did=ah_did)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1322529746\gui\media_sync.py", line 314, in _update_deck_media
    for chunk in self._client.get_deck_media_updates(
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        ankihub_did,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
        since=deck_config.latest_media_update,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ):
    ^

  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\1322529746\ankihub_client\ankihub_client.py", line 941, in get_deck_media_updates
    data = response.json()

  File "D:\a\anki\anki\out\installer\build\anki\windows\visualstudio\x64\Release\app_packages\requests\models.py", line 1120, in json

requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Sentry link (for developers)

Hello,

Please update your AnkiHub add-on:

  1. On your Anki main screen, go to Tools > Add-ons > Check for Updates.
  2. After the update is complete, please restart Anki.

Let us know if you continue to get the error.