DIYgod/RSSHub · error

Unknown type

Error message

Unknown type: ${item.type}

What it means

Thrown by the aiyanxishe home route when an item returned by the upstream yanxishe API has a `type` field that is neither 'article' nor 'paper'. The switch maps those two types to detail URLs; any new type the API starts returning falls through to the default and aborts the whole feed.

Solutions

1. Inspect the failing API response to identify the new type value.
2. Add a case in the switch mapping the new type to its detail URL, or skip unknown types with `continue` instead of throwing.
3. Report the upstream change to RSSHub maintainers with a sample payload.

Example fix

// before
default:
    throw new Error(`Unknown type: ${item.type}`);
// after — skip items we cannot handle instead of failing the feed
default:
    continue;

const KNOWN_TYPES = new Set(['article', 'paper']);
const items = (await got(url)).data;
const handled = items.filter((i) => KNOWN_TYPES.has(i.type));

const isSupportedType = (t: unknown): t is 'article' | 'paper' =>
  t === 'article' || t === 'paper';

// Route-level: degrade instead of failing the whole feed.
const detail = isSupportedType(item.type) ? await fetchDetail(item) : null;

When it happens

Trigger: The yanxishe API introduces a new content type (e.g. 'video', 'column', 'report') and returns it in the list response.

Common situations: Upstream API schema drift; a previously-unused type now appearing in responses; A/B test variant returning tagged items.

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AI-assisted analysis of DIYgod/RSSHub@bed535e087 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/84f240658fa7d95b. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at lib/routes-deprecated/aiyanxishe/home.js:101

            switch (item.type) {
                case 'blog':
                    itemUrl += '&type=null';

                    break;

                case 'article':
                    itemUrl = `https://api.yanxishe.com/api/stranslate/article/${item.id}?token=null&type=null`;

                    break;

                case 'paper':
                    itemUrl = `https://api.yanxishe.com/api/spaper/detail?token=null&id=${item.id}`;

                    break;

                default:
                    throw new Error(`Unknown type: ${item.type}`);
            }

            const cache = await ctx.cache.get(itemUrl);
            if (cache) {
                return JSON.parse(cache);
            }

            const response = await got({
                method: 'get',
                url: itemUrl,
            });

            const result = ProcessFeed(item.type, response.data.data, item.id);

            const single = {
                title: item.zh_title,
                description: result.description,
                pubDate: new Date(Number.parseFloat(item.published_time + '000')).toUTCString(),

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