Error while trying to download VOTS2023

[Nasim Soltani]

Hi, I have been trying to follow these instructions to download the VOT2023. But it seems there might be an error with the package? Any help will be appreciated

Below is the full error stack.

$ vot initialize vots2023 A newer version of the VOT toolkit is available (0.6.1), please update. Unable to read JSON file Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 971, in json return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/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) During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vot/utilities/net.py", line 53, in download_json return requests.get(url).json() File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 975, in json raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos) requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vot/utilities/cli.py", line 403, in main do_workspace(args) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vot/utilities/cli.py", line 168, in do_workspace Workspace.initialize(config.workspace, default_config, download=not config.nodownload) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vot/workspace/__init__.py", line 103, in initialize Workspace.download_dataset(dataset, dataset_directory) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vot/workspace/__init__.py", line 118, in download_dataset download_dataset(dataset, directory) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vot/dataset/__init__.py", line 584, in download_dataset download_dataset_meta(url, path) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vot/dataset/vot.py", line 169, in download_dataset_meta meta = download_json(url) File "/usr/mvl2/itdfh/anaconda3/envs/vot/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vot/utilities/net.py", line 55, in download_json raise NetworkException("Unable to read JSON file {}".format(e)) vot.utilities.net.NetworkException: Unable to read JSON file Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)