DIYgod/RSSHub · error · RenewWeiboCookiesError

Cookies expired. Msg: ${resp?.data?.msg || ''} ${resp?.data?

Error message

Cookies expired. Msg: ${resp?.data?.msg || ''} ${resp?.data?.url || ''}

What it means

A RenewWeiboCookiesError raised by the response verifier whenever a weibo API call returns data.ok === -100, weibo's signal that the active cookies (cached visitor cookies or user-supplied WEIBO_COOKIES) are no longer valid. The msg/url from the response body are appended for diagnostics.

Source

Thrown at lib/routes/weibo/utils.ts:126

                    if (times < 2 || !cookies) {
                        throw new Error(`Unable to fetch visitor cookies. Please set WEIBO_COOKIES. Redirection: ${times}, last URL: ${page.url()}`);
                    }
                    return cookies;
                })();

                try {
                    return await visitorCookiesPromise;
                } finally {
                    visitorCookiesPromise = undefined;
                }
            });
        };
    })(),
    tryWithCookies: (() => {
        let errors = 0;
        const verifier = (resp: any): void => {
            if (resp?.data?.ok === -100) {
                throw new RenewWeiboCookiesError(`Cookies expired. Msg: ${resp?.data?.msg || ''} ${resp?.data?.url || ''}`);
            }
        };
        return async <T>(callback: (cookies: string, verifier: (resp: any) => void) => Promise<T>): Promise<T> => {
            try {
                return await callback(await weiboUtils.getCookies(false), verifier);
            } catch (error: any) {
                if (error.message?.includes('WEIBO_COOKIES')) {
                    throw error;
                }
                if (errors > 10) {
                    logger.warn(`Too many errors while fetching data from weibo API, renewing Cookies: ${error.message}`);
                    logger.info('Please open an issue on GitHub if renewing Cookies fixes the error');
                } else if ((error.name === 'HTTPError' || error.name === 'FetchError') && error.status === 432) {
                    // empty
                } else if (error.name === 'RenewWeiboCookiesError') {
                    // empty
                } else {
                    errors++;

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Solutions

1. If WEIBO_COOKIES is set, refresh it from a browser session (this error usually precedes error 620 when pinned cookies are used).
2. If relying on auto visitor cookies, confirm Playwright works (error 622) so the auto-renew triggered by this error can succeed.
3. Inspect the appended msg/url in the log to distinguish true expiry from a transient weibo-side error.

// Inspect a sample API response before trusting the cookie path
const probe = await got('https://m.weibo.cn/feed/friends?max_id=0', { headers: { ...weiboUtils.apiHeaders, Cookie: cookies } });
if (probe.data?.ok === -100) {
    throw new Error('Weibo reports ok=-100 — cookies are already expired; do not proceed.');
}

function isRenewWeiboCookiesError(e: unknown): boolean {
    return e instanceof Error && (e.name === 'RenewWeiboCookiesError' || /Cookies expired\. Msg:/i.test(e.message));
}

// tryWithCookies already handles one renew; at the caller, allow a bounded second attempt
try {
    return await weiboUtils.tryWithCookies(cb);
} catch (e) {
    if (isRenewWeiboCookiesError(e)) {
        // one renew already happened internally and failed; surface rather than loop
        throw e;
    }
    throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: verifier(resp) sees resp.data.ok === -100 on any weibo API response passed through tryWithCookies' callback, throwing at utils.ts:126. tryWithCookies then catches it and triggers a cookie renew.

Common situations: Cookies expired server-side; weibo invalidated the session (logout, security reset); visitor cookies were blacklisted; rate-limited into a soft-expiry state.

Related errors

• Weibo Friends Timeline is not available due to the absense o
• Weibo Group Timeline is not available due to the absense of
• Weibo user bookmarks is not available due to the absense of
• Cookies expired. Please update WEIBO_COOKIES
• ${tagResponse.msg}

AI-assisted analysis of DIYgod/RSSHub@bed535e087 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c2967ce45b64de13. Report an issue: GitHub.