App randomly crashes with a JSON error - json

Question

I've posted first the error message with full traceback and the code as well.
The code that is below is within a loop, that will run multiple times changing the variables within the session.get() link for the API data call.
From time to time I will get an error that the json.decoder.JSONDecodeError is expecting value... (full error below)
I can't figure out why.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\CarlosMiguel\Desktop\experiments\data_collector\data_collector.py", line 100, in <module>
get_data = session.get(api_data_link+symbol+"?limit=1000&period="+i).json()
File "C:\Users\CarlosMiguel\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 892, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\CarlosMiguel\Anaconda3\lib\json\__init__.py", line 354, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Users\CarlosMiguel\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Users\CarlosMiguel\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Currently It's written like this (everything that needs to be is imported):
try:
get_data = session.get(api_data_link+symbol+"?limit=1000&period="+i).json()
for candle in get_data:
#Do things with the requested data....
except:
print("JSONError")
print('Could not update data for')
print(symbol + ' ' + i)
Could it be that the API just doesn't return anything on some random call?
Because it seems to be completely random when it crashes with that error.
If it could be the API just not returning anything, how could I write it to call it again for a few times, before continuing on with the rest of the app?