From cbfb7bfdf175d29beb655c2e96107956c2df346b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 14:26:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [gelbooru] display error for invalid API responses (#4903)

---
 gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py
index d9da7bc3f1..eba1539012 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/gelbooru.py
@@ -32,10 +32,13 @@ def _api_request(self, params, key="post"):
         url = self.root + "/index.php?page=dapi&q=index&json=1"
         data = self.request(url, params=params).json()
 
-        if key not in data:
-            return ()
+        try:
+            posts = data[key]
+        except KeyError:
+            self.log.error("Incomplete API response (missing '%s')", key)
+            self.log.debug("%s", data)
+            return []
 
-        posts = data[key]
         if not isinstance(posts, list):
             return (posts,)
         return posts