decolua/9router · error

Runway status ${r.status}

Error message

Runway status ${r.status}

What it means

Thrown by Runway's parseResponse when a GET to /tasks/{id} during polling returns a non-2xx status (runwayml.js:37). As with [50], the poll HTTP call itself failed — task creation succeeded but the status-check request did not, and the first bad response aborts generation with no retry.

Source

Thrown at open-sse/handlers/imageProviders/runwayml.js:37

    };
  },
  buildBody: (model, body) => {
    const isVideo = !model.includes("image");
    const ratio = sizeToAspectRatio(body.size);
    if (isVideo) {
      return { promptText: body.prompt, model, ratio, duration: 5, ...(body.image ? { promptImage: body.image } : {}) };
    }
    return { promptText: body.prompt, model, ratio, ...(body.image ? { referenceImages: [{ uri: body.image }] } : {}) };
  },
  async parseResponse(response, { headers }) {
    const { id } = await response.json();
    if (!id) throw new Error("Runway: no task id returned");
    const taskUrl = `${BASE_URL}/tasks/${id}`;
    const deadline = Date.now() + POLL_TIMEOUT_MS;
    while (Date.now() < deadline) {
      await sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MS);
      const r = await fetch(taskUrl, { headers });
      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`Runway status ${r.status}`);
      const s = await r.json();
      if (s.status === "SUCCEEDED") return s;
      if (s.status === "FAILED" || s.status === "CANCELLED") throw new Error(s.failure || "Runway task failed");
    }
    throw new Error("Runway polling timeout");
  },
  normalize: (responseBody) => {
    const outputs = Array.isArray(responseBody.output) ? responseBody.output : [];
    return { created: nowSec(), data: outputs.map((url) => ({ url })) };
  },
};

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Solutions

1. Check the reported status: 401/403 → refresh the Runway API key and ensure the X-Runway-Version header matches a supported version.
2. 429 → lower polling frequency (increase POLL_INTERVAL_MS) or reduce concurrent Runway requests, then retry.
3. 404 → confirm BASE_URL is the correct Runway API host and the task id path `${BASE_URL}/tasks/${id}` is well-formed.
4. 5xx → wait and re-submit; check Runway's status page if it persists.
5. Harden parseResponse to retry transient 429/5xx poll responses a few times before giving up.

Example fix

// before
const r = await fetch(taskUrl, { headers });
if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`Runway status ${r.status}`);
// after
const r = await fetch(taskUrl, { headers });
if (!r.ok) {
  if ((r.status === 429 || r.status >= 500) && ++pollErrors <= 3) continue;
  throw new Error(`Runway status ${r.status}`);
}
pollErrors = 0;

// Before submitting: check the task-status endpoint is reachable and auth works
const probe = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}/tasks`, { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${key}`, "X-Runway-Version": "2024-11-06" } });
if (probe.status === 401 || probe.status === 403) throw new Error("Runway key invalid or lacking task-read permission");
if (!BASE_URL?.startsWith("https://")) throw new Error(`Suspicious Runway BASE_URL: ${BASE_URL}`);

function isTransientPollStatus(status) { return status === 429 || status >= 500; }

try {
  const task = await imageProvider.parseResponse(response, { headers });
} catch (e) {
  const m = e.message.match(/^Runway status (\d+)$/);
  if (m) {
    const status = Number(m[1]);
    if (status === 401 || status === 403) await refreshRunwayKey();
    if (isTransientPollStatus(status)) return retryWithBackoff(); // resubmit; poll errors are not persisted state
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: `fetch(taskUrl, { headers })` in the polling loop at runwayml.js:36-37 returns non-ok: 401/403 (key revoked or insufficient permissions mid-run), 404 (task id not found or deleted), 429 (Runway rate limits task-status polling), 5xx (Runway outage), or BASE_URL misconfigured so /tasks/{id} 404s on the wrong host.

Common situations: Long video generations (duration: 5s+) where the API key rotates/expires during the poll window; polling too aggressively for Runway's rate limits under parallel requests; Runway returning transient 5xx during incidents; X-Runway-Version header rejected for newer task endpoints; BASE_URL typo making every /tasks/{id} request 404.

Related errors

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AI-assisted analysis of decolua/9router@90b52e06ff (2026-08-30). Data as JSON: /api/errors/61fece12df7da825. Report an issue: GitHub.