HTTPSConnectionPool(host='darksearch.io', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/search?query=cats&page=1 (Caused by SSLError(SSLEOFError(8, 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:1129)')))

python3 darkdump.py --query testing

Output:

Operating System: linux

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    Developed By: Josh Schiavone
    https://github.com/josh0xA  
        joshschiavone.com     

Searching For: testing on page: 1...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "darkdump.py", line 169, in <module>
    darkdump_main()
  File "darkdump.py", line 165, in darkdump_main
    Darkdump(cfg.__darkdump_api__, query).crawl_api()
  File "darkdump.py", line 105, in crawl_api
    json_data = darksearch_url_response.json()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 900, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/__init__.py", line 348, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

I get this error while running it on google compute engine. But it works fine in windows. What must be the reason for this error?

Hello Josh darkdump is not working anymore. When I tried to run the program for the first time, I was getting the following error: "UnboundLocalError: local variable 'json_data' referenced before assignment"

When I opened the code and started to examine it, I found that you are using two try and two except statements, that if the top try statement fails, 'Json_data' will be kind of undefined, which is why python throws UnboundLocalError. We can solve this problem by combining two try statements and write a total expect statement like the following: (lines 103 - 118)

   try:
            darksearch_url_response = requests.get(self.api, params=self.query)
            json_data = darksearch_url_response.json()
            #json_dump = json.dumps(json_data, indent=2)
            darksearch_url_response.headers["User-Agent"] = random.choice(hdrs.useragent)
            if json_data['total'] >= cfg.DARKDUMP_MIN_DATA_RETRIEVE_LENGTH: # data >= 1
                for key in range(0, 18):
                    site_title = json_data['data'][key]['title']
                    site_onion_link = json_data['data'][key]['link']
                    print(clr.BOLD + clr.G + f"[+] Site Title: {site_title}\n\t> Onion Link: {clr.R}{site_onion_link}\n" + clr.END)
        except (IndexError, requests.RequestException) as re:
            print(clr.BOLD + clr.R + str(re) + clr.END)
            print(clr.BOLD + clr.R + f"[-] No results found for query: {self.query}\n" + clr.END)

And the second issue is that the api specified darkdump_api = "https://darksearch.io/api/search" on line 64 is no longer publicly accessible.

If anyone else knows a way to solve the second problem, please let me know.