Newznab get categories error

[schumi2004]

If i follow the logging correctly i should set verify_ssl_certificate to ON but in both cases (OFF and ON) i'm getting errors and no categories.
This is tested on a nzbMegaSearch instance running locally.

DEBUG 2014-02-15 13:24:06.968553
function _gatherCategories needs host
DEBUG 2014-02-15 13:24:06.981650
function _gatherCategories needs port
DEBUG 2014-02-15 13:24:06.994283
function _gatherCategories needs verify_ssl_certificate
DEBUG 2014-02-15 13:24:07.005902
Field 'field_verify_ssl_certificate' not found in kwargs. tring array
DEBUG 2014-02-15 13:24:07.018159
calling > with [u'localhost', 9999, True]
ERROR 2014-02-15 13:24:07.066973
Error during _gatherCategories of Newznab(Default)
Error: No JSON object could be decoded

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/volume1/@appstore/xdm/share/XDM/xdm/web/ajax.py", line 73, in pluginCall
status, data, msg = p_function(_fn_args)
File "/usr/local/xdm/var/plugins/Indexer/Newznab-de_lad1337_newznab-0_7/Newznab.py", line 142, in _gatherCategories
for cat in r.json()['categories']['category']:
File "/volume1/@appstore/xdm/share/XDM/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 629, in json
return json.loads(self.text or self.content, *_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 383, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/volume1/@appstore/xdm/share/XDM/xdm/web/ajax.py", line 73, in pluginCall
status, data, msg = p_function(_fn_args)
File "/usr/local/xdm/var/plugins/Indexer/Newznab-de_lad1337_newznab-0_7/Newznab.py", line 142, in _gatherCategories
for cat in r.json()['categories']['category']:
File "/volume1/@appstore/xdm/share/XDM/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 629, in json
return json.loads(self.text or self.content, *_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 383, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

[schumi2004]

When adding 1 entry listed in nzbMegaSearch fetching categories works perfect so i'm not sure if this is a bug? nzbMegaSearch functions as a newznab site though.
Edit: Added a second entry/site from nzbmegasearch list and it failed on it also. Currently i have 1 working newznab site working with fetching categories.

Edit:
Is it possible to use multiple categories in 1 Newznab (Default) instance? For example 2000,3000 for TV Shows?

[lad1337]

No JSON object could be decoded

means the server does not give us JSON data in the request body ... ssl verifications would have been earlier

i dont know if the how close the "nzbMegaSearch" implements the nezwnab api ... i expect JSON not xml

to get the categories the newznab plugin calls <server_url>/api?t=caps&o=json
of nzbMegaSearch does not offer this call it will fail

[schumi2004]

Ow that's tricky if Newznab site doesn support json. And looks like nzbmegasearch doesn provide JSON also . https://github.com/pillone/usntssearch

[schumi2004]

Maybe a good idea to implement xml reading also since most providers (at least here) don't support JSON

[Saner2oo2]

Did you ever get anywhere with this ?

I am having the same issue, I have tried with local installs of newznab and nzedb, and a couple of remote sites and I cant get it to work.

I am guessing its something local (given the range of sites) but I cant see a dependencies list