🐛 Bug Report: Searching in multireddit error: Could'nt send request to Reddit: Reddit response was invalid

[azizLIGHT]

Describe the bug

Trying to search stuff restricted to a multireddit gives an error
Couldn't send request to Reddit: Reddit response was invalid | /r/pics+pic/search.json?q=test&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on&raw_json=1

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Go to redlib_instance/r/pics+pic
2. Type test in the search box at the top
3. Make sure checkbox in the searchbox is checked for in /r/pics+pic
4. Click arrow button or press enter
5. See error

What's the expected behavior?

Expect to see list of posts that come from both and only /r/pics and /r/pic that match test
Multireddit here means a combo of subreddits like /r/pics+pic or /r/news+worldnews or any two or more subreddits combined with a + character

Additional context / screenshot

• The correct results from both subreddits are available on old reddit page here
• The results are also on old reddit json page here
• The results are also on normal reddit json page here

[ozen-m]

The same happens now on just normal subreddits. Even by not searching. Reddit api must have changed

Failed to parse page JSON data: expected value at line 1 column 1 | /r/popular/hot.json?&raw_json=1&geo_filter=GLOBAL

[azizLIGHT]

I think this error

Failed to parse page JSON data: expected value at line 1 column 1 | /r/popular/hot.json?&raw_json=1&geo_filter=GLOBAL

is new and a separate issue. This new error seems to happen on any page and just started a day ago, and only affects some instances and might be related to some blocks by reddit. So it is a more severe error than mine. That one has it's own bug report now at #229

My error about the multireddit searches was happening since at least August 18, 2024 and only happens on the multireddit search

[sigaloid]

This looks like a plus-encoding issue - relevant code can be found by searching "%2B"