From 19867659f3eb8a3e018e9b38fd9520f9fa4392cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jalil SA <61639983+jxlil@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:22:17 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: response.json() call makes unnecessary memory allocation

---
 scrapy/http/response/text.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/http/response/text.py b/scrapy/http/response/text.py
index 7fc54b5d3..47d7bc10f 100644
--- a/scrapy/http/response/text.py
+++ b/scrapy/http/response/text.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class TextResponse(Response):
         Deserialize a JSON document to a Python object.
         """
         if self._cached_decoded_json is _NONE:
-            self._cached_decoded_json = json.loads(self.text)
+            self._cached_decoded_json = json.loads(self.body)
         return self._cached_decoded_json
 
     @property