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response.message

Error message

response.message

What it means

Plain Error thrown by the Pornhub category handler when the webmasters API response carries a truthy code field. The Pornhub /webmasters/search?category=... endpoint returns an error object (with code and message) instead of a video list on failure; RSSHub re-throws response.message verbatim. Because the message comes from upstream, its exact text varies (e.g. invalid category, rate limit, server error).

Source

Thrown at lib/routes/pornhub/category.ts:52

        const { data } = await got(`${defaultDomain}/webmasters/categories`);
        return data.categories;
    });

    const categoryId = Number.isNaN(category) ? categories.find((item) => item.category === category)?.id : category;
    const categoryName = Number.isNaN(category) ? category : categories.find((item) => item.id === Number.parseInt(category)).category;

    const response = await cache.tryGet(
        `pornhub:category:${categoryName}`,
        async () => {
            const { data } = await got(`${defaultDomain}/webmasters/search?category=${categoryName}`);
            return data;
        },
        config.cache.routeExpire,
        false
    );

    if (response.code) {
        throw new Error(response.message);
    }

    const showImages = img === 'img=1';

    const list = response.videos.map((item) => ({
        title: item.title,
        link: item.url,
        description: renderDescription({ thumbs: item.thumbs }, showImages),
        pubDate: parseDate(item.publish_date),
        category: [...new Set([...item.tags.map((t) => t.tag_name), ...item.categories.map((c) => c.category)])],
    }));

    return {
        title: `Pornhub - ${categoryName}`,
        link: `${defaultDomain}/video?c=${categoryId}`,
        item: list,
    };
}

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Solutions

1. Use a category name from https://www.pornhub.com/webmasters/categories.
2. Clear the 'pornhub:category:{name}' and 'pornhub:categories' cache entries to re-fetch fresh data.
3. If rate-limited, reduce polling frequency.
4. Retry once to rule out a transient Pornhub error.

function looksLikeErrorResponse(resp: any): boolean {
  return Boolean(resp && resp.code);
}
// after the cached fetch:
if (looksLikeErrorResponse(response)) {
  // surface response.message; optionally clear the 'pornhub:category:{name}' cache
}

const isPornhubErrorResponse = (r: unknown): r is { code: number | string; message: string } =>
  typeof r === 'object' && r !== null && Boolean((r as any).code) && typeof (r as any).message === 'string';

try {
  const response = await cache.tryGet(`pornhub:category:${categoryName}`, /* ... */);
  if (response.code) throw new Error(response.message);
} catch (e) {
  // message originates from Pornhub; clear cache and/or advise a valid category
}

When it happens

Trigger: The category name passed in :caty does not match any Pornhub webmasters category; Pornhub API rate-limited the instance; transient Pornhub server error; category ID/name resolution produced an empty/invalid categoryName.

Common situations: Misspelled category; category removed from Pornhub; cached 'pornhub:categories' list stale so name->id lookup fails; aggressive polling triggering rate limits.

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AI-assisted analysis of DIYgod/RSSHub@bed535e087 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a0d7fd5b6f7ad487. Report an issue: GitHub.