Using Census Geocoder to get latitude and longitude

Question

I have never used Python before or made a call to an API so I am a little lost. I need to send an address to https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/Geocoding_Services_API.html#_Toc143583220 and get back the latitude and longitude. All of the help I could find was about addressbatch which I don't need.

The address I am using is a random one given on the command line :)

Here's what I have (which is very much not working) How do I get the api to return the lat and long?

def main():
    #reading URL input
    urlIn = sys.argv[1]

    IP = socket.gethostbyname(urlIn)

    res = subprocess.getstatusoutput("whois " + IP)
    ressplit = res[1].split("\n")
    #parsing address from result
    for i in ressplit:
        if i.startswith("Address: "):
            a = i[10:]
        if i.startswith("City: "):
            c = i[6:]
        if i.startswith("StateProv: "):
            s = i[11:]
        if i.startswith("PostalCode: "):
            p = i[12:]
            break

    #combining to make address
    address = a.strip() + ", " + c.strip() + ", " + s.strip() + " " + p.strip()
    print(address)

    #base API string for geocoding.gov
    geo_s = "https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/locations/address?"
    location = address
    PARAMS = {'address':location}

    response = requests.get(url = geo_s, params = PARAMS)
    data = response.json()
    #convert it to json
    geojs = json.loads(response.text)
    latitude = data['x']
    longitude = data ['y']

and what it looks like from the terminal:

cscd330lab2 % ./lab2.py "youtube.com"
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/emilyherbert/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 971, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/emilyherbert/Desktop/cscd330lab2/./lab2.py", line 82, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/emilyherbert/Desktop/cscd330lab2/./lab2.py", line 40, in main
    data = response.json()
  File "/Users/emilyherbert/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 975, in json
    raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos)
requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)