DIYgod/RSSHub · error · Error

Unknown asset type: in

Error message

Unknown asset type: ${content.assetType} in ${item.link}

What it means

The AFR (Financial Review) renderer switches on content.assetType and handles liveArticle, article, and featureArticle. Any other assetType hits the default branch and throws a generic `Error` reporting the offending type and the item link, so unexpected content surfaces loudly rather than silently rendering an empty description.

Solutions

1. Report the assetType value and item link to the route maintainers so a new case can be added.
2. Short-term, filter the offending item out of the list before calling the renderer.
3. Pin to a feed/query that returns only known asset types.

Example fix

// before
switch (content.assetType) {
    case 'liveArticle': ...
    case 'article':
    case 'featureArticle': ...
    default: throw new Error(`Unknown asset type: ${content.assetType} in ${item.link}`);
}
// after — degrade gracefully instead of failing the whole feed
    default:
        item.description = asset?.body ?? '';
        item.title = item.title ?? 'Unsupported asset type ' + content.assetType;

const KNOWN_ASSET_TYPES = new Set(['liveArticle','article','featureArticle']);
function knownAfrAsset(t) {
  return KNOWN_ASSET_TYPES.has(t);
}

function isKnownAfrAssetType(t): t is 'liveArticle'|'article'|'featureArticle' {
  return t === 'liveArticle' || t === 'article' || t === 'featureArticle';
}

try {
  return renderAfrItem(content, item);
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof Error && /Unknown asset type/.test(e.message)) {
    // degrade: keep the item with whatever body is available, instead of failing the feed
    item.description = content?.asset?.body ?? '';
    return item;
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: AFR's live-article API returns an item whose content.assetType is something new (e.g. 'video', 'gallery', 'podcast', 'newsletter') not covered by the switch.

Common situations: Upstream schema/pilot change introducing a new content type; a feed entry that points at a previously-unseen article format.

Related errors

• Unknown placeholder type
• Category not found
• Empty content
• 日报数据不存在或为空
• Tag not found

AI-assisted analysis of DIYgod/RSSHub@bed535e087 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/f6e3d00523d32872. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at lib/routes/afr/utils.ts:25

    const $ = load(response);

    const reduxState = JSON.parse($('script#__REDUX_STATE__').text().replaceAll(':undefined', ':null').match('__REDUX_STATE__=(.*);')?.[1] || '{}');

    const content = reduxState.page.content;
    const asset = content.asset;

    switch (content.assetType) {
        case 'liveArticle':
            item.description = asset.posts.map((post) => `<h2>${post.asset.headlines.headline}</h2>${post.asset.body}`).join('');
            break;

        case 'article':
        case 'featureArticle':
            item.description = renderArticle(asset, item.link);
            break;

        default:
            throw new Error(`Unknown asset type: ${content.assetType} in ${item.link}`);
    }

    return item;
};

const renderArticle = (asset, link: string) => {
    const $ = load(asset.body, null, false);
    $('x-placeholder').each((_, el) => {
        const $el = $(el);
        const id = $el.attr('id');
        if (!id) {
            $el.replaceWith('');
        }

        const placeholder = asset.bodyPlaceholders[id!];
        switch (placeholder?.type) {
            case 'callout':
            case 'relatedStory':

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