Error embedding into AnythingLLM: Error adding files to anythingLLM: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[DrGump]

Hi, is this script still being maintained? I'm very interested in using it.
It appears I have it working up until the last step: embedding into AnythingLLM. It is not creating the workspaces and continues to find the same 129 files to add.
I'm using AnythingLLM desktop version and it is open. It is also running on the same machine as Ollama.
It gives the error shown in the log below and says that it deleted the folder Journal 2000 but the folder is not empty and it hasn't actually deleted the folder.

My .env:

ANYTHING_LLM_API=secret
ANYTHING_LLM_URL=http://host.docker.internal:3001

USE_CRON=true #if true, then it updates based on timings. If false, you can only update via post request to localhost:PORT/update_files/update/
CHECK_FILES_CRON=*/5 * * * * #Every five minutes
CREATE_WORKSPACES=true #automatically creates workspaces when new folders have been detected

OLLAMA_URL=http://192.168.50.6:11434/api/generate
IMAGE_DESCRIPTION_ACTIVATE=true
IMAGE_DESCRIPTION_MODEL=gemma3:12b
IMAGE_DESCRIPTION_LANGUAGE=english

SORT_FILES=false
DELETE_UNUSED_FOLDERS=false

VERBOSE=true

My docker yaml:

services:
web:
build:
context: .
container_name: any_folder
image: any_folder
volumes:
- static_volume:/app/static
- storage_volume:/app/storage
- database_volume:/app/database
- C:\Users\joelb\LOCAL-OBSIDIAN\Well Being:/app/AnythingLLM
# - C:\MySecondFolder:/app/AnythingLLM2
env_file:
- .env
environment:
- DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=main.settings
- PYTHONPATH=/app
- DATABASE_DIR=/app/database
- STORAGE_DIR=/app/storage
- HOST_FOLDER=/app/AnythingLLM
- PORT=8000
ports:
- "8000:8000"
extra_hosts:
- "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
tty: true
stdin_open: true
restart: always
logging:
driver: "json-file"
options:
max-size: "10m"
max-file: "3"

volumes:
static_volume:
storage_volume:
database_volume:

Partial LOG:

any_folder | Found 129 files to add, 0 files that changed and 0 files that got deleted. Updating AnythingLLM now
any_folder | Uploading file /app/AnythingLLM/JOURNALS/2000 Journal/All Year 2000.md to AnythingLLM: http://host.docker.internal:3001/api/v1/document/upload/
any_folder | Error adding files to anythingLLM: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
any_folder | Workspaces to update: {}
any_folder | Deleted folder: 2000-journal
any_folder | Done Updating, task was successful. 0 documents in DB
any_folder | Done Updating, task was successful. Found 129 files to add, 0 files that changed and 0 files that got deleted.
any_folder | Processed 'check_for_files.tasks.main' (delaware-timing-bacon-vermont)

Thank you very much for your assistance.

[DrGump]

There are definitely alpha characters in All Year 2000.md at line 1, column 1.

[MrMarans]

Hi, first off, the project is partially maintained. For now i kinda lost interest in adding features like image description since its not that useful, but im still making sure all the current tools work. Once i get around to do an actualy OCR document understanding system with Deepseek-OCR, ill add that to this project.

Based on the logs it seems to not be able to upload the files. Its hard to find the reason for that with the logs provided.

The "Error adding files to anythingLLM:" Part comes when generally upload of files are not successful.

Can you please check the following things for me:

• Are the files getting uploaded? Meaning do you see the files within AnythingLLM?
• Are they in folders (within AnythingLLM)?

[DrGump]

Hi, first off, the project is partially maintained. For now i kinda lost interest in adding features like image description since its not that useful, but im still making sure all the current tools work. Once i get around to do an actualy OCR document understanding system with Deepseek-OCR, ill add that to this project.

Based on the logs it seems to not be able to upload the files. Its hard to find the reason for that with the logs provided.

The "Error adding files to anythingLLM:" Part comes when generally upload of files are not successful.

Can you please check the following things for me:

• Are the files getting uploaded? Meaning do you see the files within AnythingLLM?
• Are they in folders (within AnythingLLM)?

Thank you for the response. It does not appear that any files are uploaded into AnythingLLM desktop app. There are no new workspaces created as your documentation suggests.

[MrMarans]

Can you try the following:
In case my program runs on your windows pc: Open CMD on your (i guess windows-)PC and enter the following:

curl -X GET "http://localhost:3001/api/v1/auth" ^ -H "accept: application/json" ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer 2XW3S6Z-TGWMQMZ-JNXC8D8-46J09MG"
Instead of the "2XW3S6Z-TGWMQMZ-JNXC8D8-46J09MG" please put in your ANYTHING_LLM_API key that you have set in the .env.

You should get
{"authenticated":true}
back if the URL, Port and the API-key are accurate. If you get nothing of that sort, then either way anythingllm isnt taking api calls, URL and/or Port is wrong or the api key is wrong.

[DrGump]

I did the curl command and got: {"authenticated":true}
So, it appears the those things are correct but I am still getting the error: Error adding files to anythingLLM: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[DrGump]

UPDATE: I was able to solve this for my setup by:

1. changing AnythingLLM from desktop version to docker.
2. changing the variable ANYTHING_LLM_URL to http://192.168.1.100:3001 instead of using docker host or localhost.

I still don't know why it would give me that error with the desktop version but at least it's now working with docker