Failed to parse scripts

[smmrokn]

2025-12-04 08:14:42.551 | WARNING | twscrape.queue_client:req:291 - Unknown error. Account timeouted for 15 minutes. Create issue please: https://github.com/vladkens/twscrape/issues If it mistake, you can unlock accounts with twscrape reset_locks. Err: <class 'Exception'>: Failed to parse scripts

[kunalransing]

@vladkens We have been using it for quite some time, but this error has started occurring suddenly. Even after running reset_locks, the issue remains.
Any idea ? Thanks.

[JamesMcMinn]

See #280

I'm not sure why the above issue was closed. I've proposed a fix in the issue, however the actual library still needs to implement it.

The tldr; is that Twitter is returning some invalid JSON, so the fix is to try and fix the JSON before parsing.

[kunalransing]

@JamesMcMinn Hey, Thanks. I added that code. Now its working fine.

[Tormented]

i'm experiencing same issue. is it fixed already? i'm guessing it's cus of api change?

[kunalransing]

i'm experiencing same issue. is it fixed already? i'm guessing it's cus of api change?

I guess its not fixed on repo. You need to manually fix on file directly xx/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/twscrape/xclid.py
Check code mentioned by @JamesMcMinn in #280

[michael-bey]

This just happened to me too, was working fine up until today