From 86d7a55329028977431830d6628ab2b4b8da2eb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Garfield69 <garfield69@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:33:32 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] rarbg: add non json response detection. resolves #13350

---
 src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/RarBG.cs | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/RarBG.cs b/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/RarBG.cs
index 15ab09c08..c4acd4e4b 100644
--- a/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/RarBG.cs
+++ b/src/Jackett.Common/Indexers/RarBG.cs
@@ -141,6 +141,12 @@ namespace Jackett.Common.Indexers
             await RenewalTokenAsync();
 
             var response = await RequestWithCookiesAndRetryAsync(BuildSearchUrl(query));
+            if (response != null && response.ContentString.StartsWith("<"))
+            {
+                // the response was not JSON, likely a HTML page for a server outage
+                logger.Warn(response.ContentString);
+                throw new Exception("The response was not JSON");
+            }
             var jsonContent = JObject.Parse(response.ContentString);
             var errorCode = jsonContent.Value<int>("error_code");
             switch (errorCode)