requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError at Telegraph.create_page

[SyberiaK]

I have a Telegram bot that creates Telegraph pages with some user stats.
Sometimes it raises requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError at Telegraph.create_page:

File "/root/botty/main.py", line 474, in user_stats
 telegraph_response = telegraph.create_page(stats_page_title,
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/telegraph/api.py", line 183, in create_page
 return self._telegraph.method('createPage', values={
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/telegraph/api.py", line 35, in method
 ).json()
 ^^^^^^
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-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)

What's strange is that if you try to call Telegraph.create_page again - it runs flawlessly.
So I ended up with "fuckit" strategy:

try:
 telegraph_response = telegraph.create_page(stats_page_title,
 html_content=stats_page_text,
 author_name=bot_name,
 author_url=bot_link)
except requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: # fuck it
 telegraph_response = telegraph.create_page(stats_page_title,
 html_content=stats_page_text,
 author_name=bot_name,
 author_url=bot_link)

I suspect this could be fixed if we could pass in timeout argument to inner post request.

def create_page(self, title, content=None, html_content=None,
 author_name=None, author_url=None, return_content=False, timeout=0):
 ...

 return self._telegraph.method('createPage', values={
 'title': title,
 'author_name': author_name,
 'author_url': author_url,
 'content': content_json,
 'return_content': return_content
 }, timeout=timeout)

def method(self, method, values=None, path='', timeout=0):
 ...

 response = self.session.post(
 'https://api.{}/{}/{}'.format(self.domain, method, path),
 data=values, timeout=timeout
 ).json()

 ...