chatboxai/chatbox · warning · Error

HTML content is empty, nothing to publish.

Error message

HTML content is empty, nothing to publish.

What it means

Thrown by publishToVibedrop() when the html parameter is missing or whitespace-only (after html?.trim()). It prevents posting an empty page to VibeDrop and is the earliest validation before the network request is built.

Source

Thrown at src/renderer/packages/vibedrop.ts:91

      if (e instanceof ApiError && typeof e.statusCode === 'number') {
        return { status: e.statusCode, json: safeJson(e.responseBody) }
      }
      throw e
    }
  }
  const response = await ofetch.raw<InlinePublishResponse>(url, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', Authorization: `Bearer ${bearer}` },
    body,
    ignoreResponseError: true,
  })
  return { status: response.status, json: response._data ?? null }
}

export async function publishToVibedrop(params: PublishToVibedropParams): Promise<VibedropSite> {
  const { html, vdKey, title, visibility, slug } = params
  if (!html?.trim()) {
    throw new Error('HTML content is empty, nothing to publish.')
  }

  const body: Record<string, unknown> = { html, visibility }
  if (title) body.title = title
  if (slug) body.slug = slug

  const { status, json } = await postJson(`${VIBEDROP_API_ORIGIN}/v1/sites/inline`, body, vdKey)

  if (status === 401 || status === 403) {
    throw new VibedropAuthError(json?.error?.message || 'VibeDrop authorization failed')
  }
  if (status === 404 && json?.error?.code === 'slug_not_owned') {
    throw new VibedropSlugNotOwnedError('slug no longer owned')
  }
  if (status >= 400 || !json?.site?.url) {
    throw new Error(json?.error?.message || `Failed to publish to VibeDrop (status ${status})`)
  }

View on GitHub (pinned to 81571269ad)

Solutions

1. Ensure the html content is a non-empty, non-whitespace string before publishing.
2. Fix the upstream HTML generator if it returns empty.
3. Disable the publish action until content is non-empty.

function hasHtmlContent(html: string | undefined | null): boolean {
  return typeof html === 'string' && html.trim().length > 0
}
if (!hasHtmlContent(html)) {
  // disable publish; do not call publishToVibedrop
}

function isNonEmptyHtml(html: unknown): html is string {
  return typeof html === 'string' && html.trim().length > 0
}

try {
  await publishToVibedrop(params)
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof Error && e.message === 'HTML content is empty, nothing to publish.') {
    // regenerate content before publishing
  }
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling publishToVibedrop with html = '', html = ' ', or html = undefined/null. The guard `if (!html?.trim()) throw ...` fires before postJson.

Common situations: The HTML generator returned empty due to an upstream error; a template produced only whitespace; the publish button was enabled with no content generated; programmatic call with an unset html variable.

Related errors

• No authorization code found in the input
• --${name} must be an integer.
• --${name} must be between ${options.min} and ${options.max}.
• Missing setting key.
• email required

AI-assisted analysis of chatboxai/chatbox@81571269ad (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/2321fcff0fea7f30. Report an issue: GitHub.