Fix 'json encoding' issue in Python 3.9.x and later versions. Current…

… code tested on Py 3.10.9

crawler.py

@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ def decode_url(url):
                    "https": "{}://{}".format(proxy_type, proxy)}
 
     res = requests.get(init_url, proxies=proxies, headers=g_headers)
-    init_json = json.loads(res.text.replace(r"\'", ""), encoding='utf-8', strict=False)
+    init_json = json.loads(res.text.replace(r"\'", "").encode("utf-8"), strict=False)
     total_num = init_json['listNum']
 
     target_num = min(max_number, total_num)
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ def process_batch(batch_no, batch_size):
                         print(e)
                         return image_urls
             response.encoding = 'utf-8'
-            res_json = json.loads(response.text.replace(r"\'", ""), encoding='utf-8', strict=False)
+            res_json = json.loads(response.text.replace(r"\'", ""), strict=False)
             for data in res_json['data']:
                 # if 'middleURL' in data.keys():
                 #     url = data['middleURL']

image_downloader_gui.spec

@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ exe = EXE(pyz,
           a.datas,
           name='image_downloader_gui',
           debug=False,
-          strip=True,
+          strip=False,
           upx=True,
           console=False )

requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-chromedriver_autoinstaller==0.4.0
-PyQt5==5.15.9
-requests==2.22.0
-selenium==4.8.2
+chromedriver-autoinstaller==0.4.0
+pyinstaller==5.9.0
+PyQt5==5.15.9
+requests==2.28.2
+selenium==4.8.3