Selenium Webdriver gives JSONDecodeError - selenium

Question

I am trying to run sample codes using selenium and webdriver manager from the following site: https://pypi.org/project/webdriver-manager/. I am using google chrome, i tried the following codes:
Selenium version: 4.1.0
webdriver_manager version: 3.5.2
# code for chrome
# Selenium 4
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
I also tried:
# code for chromium
# selenium 4
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from webdriver_manager.utils import ChromeType
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager(chrome_type=ChromeType.CHROMIUM).install()))
Unfortunately i get the following error (it's similar for both codes):
JSONDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
5 from webdriver_manager.utils import ChromeType
6
----> 7 driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager(chrome_type=ChromeType.CHROMIUM).install()))
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\chrome.py in install(self)
30
31 def install(self):
---> 32 driver_path = self._get_driver_path(self.driver)
33
34 os.chmod(driver_path, 0o755)
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\manager.py in _get_driver_path(self, driver)
21 driver_name = driver.get_name()
22 os_type = driver.get_os_type()
---> 23 driver_version = driver.get_version()
24
25 binary_path = self.driver_cache.find_driver(browser_version, driver_name, os_type,
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\driver.py in get_version(self)
39 driver_version = self._version
40 if driver_version == "latest":
---> 41 return self.get_latest_release_version()
42 return self._version
43
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\driver.py in get_latest_release_version(self)
72 verify=self.ssl_verify
73 )
---> 74 validate_response(resp)
75 self._version = resp.text.rstrip()
76 return self._version
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\utils.py in validate_response(resp)
81 elif resp.status_code != 200:
82 raise ValueError(
---> 83 f'response body:\n{resp.json()}\n'
84 f'request url:\n{resp.request.url}\n'
85 f'response headers:\n{dict(resp.headers)}\n'
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py in json(self, **kwargs)
908 # used.
909 pass
--> 910 return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
911
912 #property
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json\__init__.py in loads(s, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
344 parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
345 parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
--> 346 return _default_decoder.decode(s)
347 if cls is None:
348 cls = JSONDecoder
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py in decode(self, s, _w)
335
336 """
--> 337 obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
338 end = _w(s, end).end()
339 if end != len(s):
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py in raw_decode(self, s, idx)
353 obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
354 except StopIteration as err:
--> 355 raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
356 return obj, end
JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)