Tried to downgrade to python 3.11 and error still occurs

                      [#] Lightnovel Crawler v3.5.1
              https://github.com/dipu-bd/lightnovel-crawler

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? Enter novel page url or query novel: super god gene
Searching: 34%|██████████████████████▋ | 93/270 [00:11<00:31, 5.60source/s]Failed to get any results, likely auth failure
Searching: 73%|███████████████████████████████████████████████▍ | 197/270 [01:10<00:28, 2.58source/s]
! Error: decoding to str: need a bytes-like object, NoneType found
<class 'TypeError'>
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\core\app.py", line 103, in search_novel
search_novels(self)
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\core\novel_search.py", line 125, in search_novels
app.search_results = _combine_results(results)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\core\novel_search.py", line 46, in _combine_results
key = slugify(item.title)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\daved\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\slugify\slugify.py", line 115, in slugify
text = str(text, 'utf-8', 'ignore')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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lightnovel-crawl> python lncrawl -s https://boxnovel.com/novel/reincarnation-of-the-strongest-sword-god/

                      [#] Lightnovel Crawler v3.5.1
              https://github.com/dipu-bd/lightnovel-crawler

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Retrieving novel info...
Exception in thread Thread-1 (read_novel_info):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\templates\madara.py", line 66, in select_chapter_tags
raise Exception("No chapters on first URL")
Exception: No chapters on first URL

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.2544.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\threading.py", line 1045, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.2544.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\threading.py", line 982, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\templates\soup\general.py", line 34, in read_novel_info
for item in self.parse_chapter_list(soup):
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\templates\soup\chapter_only.py", line 13, in parse_chapter_list
for tag in self.select_chapter_tags(soup):
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\templates\madara.py", line 70, in select_chapter_tags
response = self.submit_form(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\core\scraper.py", line 230, in submit_form
return self.post_response(url, data=data, headers=headers, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\core\scraper.py", line 211, in post_response
return self.__process_request(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\core\scraper.py", line 130, in __process_request
raise e
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\core\scraper.py", line 123, in __process_request
response.raise_for_status()
File "C:\Users\daved\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 1021, in raise_for_status
raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://boxnovel.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

! Error: No chapters found
<class 'Exception'>
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\bots\console\integration.py", line 107, in start
raise e
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\bots\console\integration.py", line 101, in start
_download_novel()
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\bots\console\integration.py", line 85, in _download_novel
self.app.get_novel_info()
File "C:\Users\daved\OneDrive\Desktop\lightnovel-crawl\lncrawl\core\app.py", line 137, in get_novel_info
raise Exception("No chapters found")

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Error: decoding to str: need a bytes-like object, NoneType found This error is fixed. But the error which occurs when you try to download from URL : novel_url. Yeah, I am not sure how to fix this.

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Thanks zGadli, Well one down is better then nothing. What is the fix to this or the article with the fix steps.

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Just tried to do a serch and still showing the error; decoding to str
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? Enter novel page url or query novel: super god gene
Searching: 36%|███████████████████████▍ | 102/283 [00:07<00:17, 10.13source/s]Failed to get any results, likely auth failure
Searching: 73%|███████████████████████████████████████████████▎ | 206/283 [01:09<00:29, 2.60source/s]
! Error: decoding to str: need a bytes-like object, NoneType found
<class 'TypeError'>
File "C:\Users\daved\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\lncrawl\core\app.py", line 103, in search_novel
search_novels(self)
File "C:\Users\daved\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\lncrawl\core\novel_search.py", line 125, in search_novels
app.search_results = _combine_results(results)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\daved\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\lncrawl\core\novel_search.py", line 46, in _combine_results
key = slugify(item.title)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\daved\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\slugify\slugify.py", line 115, in slugify
text = str(text, 'utf-8', 'ignore')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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@Nephalemzz If you want the fix you will have to clone the dev branch of this repo to your local machine and run it.

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