badges/shields · error · NotFound

job not found

Error message

job not found

What it means

After extracting jobs, transform() looks up the requested job with jobs.find(j => j.name === jobName); if no job matches it throws NotFound with prettyMessage 'job not found'. The build exists and has jobs, but none carries the exact name given in the badge URL.

Source

Thrown at services/appveyor/appveyor-job-build.service.js:51

  }

  transform({ data, jobName }) {
    if (!('build' in data)) {
      // this project exists but no builds have been run on it yet
      return { status: 'no builds found' }
    }

    const {
      build: { jobs },
    } = data
    if (!jobs) {
      throw new NotFound({ prettyMessage: 'no jobs found' })
    }

    const job = jobs.find(j => j.name === jobName)

    if (!job) {
      throw new NotFound({ prettyMessage: 'job not found' })
    }

    return { status: job.status }
  }

  async handle({ user, repo, job, branch }) {
    const data = await this.fetch({ user, repo, branch })
    const { status } = this.transform({ data, jobName: job })
    return renderBuildStatusBadge({ status })
  }
}

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Solutions

1. Copy the job name exactly as shown on the AppVeyor build page, preserving case and spaces.
2. URL-encode spaces and special characters in the job parameter of the badge URL.
3. Update the badge if the job was renamed in appveyor.yml.
4. Confirm the job exists for the requested branch/configuration.

Example fix

// before
/badge/appveyor/build/owner/repo/Build%20Job?branch=master  // job named 'build job' -> job not found
// after (exact case-sensitive name, encoded)
/badge/appveyor/build/owner/repo/build%20job?branch=master

const jobs = data?.build?.jobs || []
if (!jobs.some(j => j.name === jobName)) throw new Error(`job "${jobName}" not in [${jobs.map(j => j.name)}]`)

function jobExists(jobs, jobName) { return Array.isArray(jobs) && jobs.some(j => j.name === jobName) }

try {
  const { status } = await transform(jobName, data)
} catch (err) {
  if (err.name === 'NotFound') return renderNotFoundBadge()
  throw err
}

When it happens

Trigger: jobs.find(j => j.name === jobName) returns undefined — the job parameter in the badge URL does not case-sensitively match any job name in the AppVeyor build configuration.

Common situations: Job renamed in appveyor.yml after the badge URL was created, case mismatch (match is case-sensitive), URL-encoding/space issues in the job name (e.g. 'Test%20x86'), targeting a job that only exists on other branches/configurations.

Related errors

• no jobs found
• build pipeline not found
• ${recordType.toLowerCase()} not found
• build pipeline not found
• no builds found

AI-assisted analysis of badges/shields@766fd8bc89 (2026-08-30). Data as JSON: /api/errors/53be010442af6412. Report an issue: GitHub.