AlistGo/alist · error

failed to get bdstoken from baidu youth cookie

Error message

failed to get bdstoken from baidu youth cookie

What it means

Returned by BaiduYouth's credential bootstrap (drivers/baidu_youth/util.go:207): after scanning cookies and API responses, no bdstoken could be found. The bdstoken is required to sign state-changing requests; an empty one means the provided cookies are incomplete for this endpoint.

Source

Thrown at drivers/baidu_youth/util.go:207

		}, nil)
		if err != nil {
			return 0, "", "", err
		}
		if uk == 0 {
			uk = int64(utils.Json.Get(body, "result", "uk").ToInt())
		}
		if bdstoken == "" {
			bdstoken = utils.Json.Get(body, "result", "bdstoken").ToString()
		}
		if sk == "" {
			sk = utils.Json.Get(body, "result", "sk").ToString()
		}
	}
	if sk == "" {
		sk, _ = d.getUserSK(ctx)
	}
	if bdstoken == "" {
		return 0, "", "", fmt.Errorf("failed to get bdstoken from baidu youth cookie")
	}
	if uk == 0 {
		return 0, "", "", fmt.Errorf("failed to get uk from baidu youth cookie")
	}
	return uk, bdstoken, sk, nil
}

func (d *BaiduYouth) getFiles(ctx context.Context, dir string) ([]File, error) {
	page := 1
	num := 1000
	params := map[string]string{
		"dir": dir,
	}
	if d.OrderBy != "" {
		params["order"] = d.OrderBy
		if d.OrderDirection == "desc" {
			params["desc"] = "1"
		} else {

View on GitHub (pinned to 843d9dc814)

Solutions

1. Refresh the cookie config: log in to pan.baidu.com in a browser and copy the full cookie set (BDUSS, SToken, bdstoken if present)
2. Verify the cookies are still valid by loading the site in the same browser session
3. Check that the userinfo request succeeded (no errno!=0) before this extraction runs

// validate the cookie config before first use
func hasRequiredYouthCookies(raw string) bool {
    for _, key := range []string{"BDUSS", "SToken"} {
        if !strings.Contains(raw, key+"=") {
            return false
        }
    }
    return true
}
if !hasRequiredYouthCookies(d.Addition.Cookie) {
    return fmt.Errorf("cookie config missing BDUSS/SToken; copy the full cookie set from a logged-in browser")
}

When it happens

Trigger: Init/getUserINFO path where neither the cookie jar nor the userinfo response contained result.bdstoken: user supplied only BDUSS without SToken/bdstoken, or Baidu served an error page so the JSON extraction found nothing.

Common situations: Config copied with a partial cookie string; expired cookies making the userinfo call return errno!=0 body without bdstoken; Baidu renaming the JSON field.

Related errors

• failed to get uk from baidu youth cookie
• cookie is empty
• baidu youth sk is empty
• clientID and clientSecret are required in client_credentials
• api_key is empty

AI-assisted analysis of AlistGo/alist@843d9dc814 (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/255d837a521839a1. Report an issue: GitHub.