From be04e44e2c613e0e53d34807936333f43b701702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:32:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [reddit] catch JSON decode errors (#765)

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

diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
index 2e3864a3..6331b774 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
@@ -324,7 +324,11 @@ class RedditAPI():
             self.extractor.wait(seconds=response.headers["x-ratelimit-reset"])
             return self._call(endpoint, params)
 
-        data = response.json()
+        try:
+            data = response.json()
+        except ValueError:
+            raise exception.StopExtraction(text.remove_html(response.text))
+
         if "error" in data:
             if data["error"] == 403:
                 raise exception.AuthorizationError()