jackwener/OpenCLI · error · ArgumentError

Answer ID must be a numeric id, a Zhihu answer URL, or answe

Error message

Answer ID must be a numeric id, a Zhihu answer URL, or answer:<qid>:<aid>

What it means

answer-comments requires an answer identifier in one of three accepted forms: bare numeric id, a full Zhihu answer URL, or answer:<qid>:<aid>. parseAnswerTarget returns null for anything else, and the command throws this ArgumentError with an example. It exists to give immediate feedback instead of navigating to a malformed URL.

Source

Thrown at clis/zhihu/answer-comments.js:38

cli({
    site: 'zhihu',
    name: 'answer-comments',
    access: 'read',
    description: '知乎回答评论列表（保留回复层级）',
    domain: 'www.zhihu.com',
    strategy: Strategy.COOKIE,
    args: [
        { name: 'id', required: true, positional: true, help: 'Answer ID, full Zhihu answer URL, or typed target (answer:<qid>:<aid>)' },
        { name: 'limit', type: 'int', default: 20, help: 'Number of top-level comments (max 1000)' },
        { name: 'replies-limit', type: 'int', default: 3, help: 'Number of replies to include per top-level comment (max 100)' },
        { name: 'order', default: 'score', choices: ['score', 'latest'], help: 'Root comment order' },
    ],
    columns: ['rank', 'comment_rank', 'reply_rank', 'depth', 'id', 'parent_id', 'author', 'reply_to', 'likes', 'created_at', 'url', 'content'],
    func: async (page, kwargs) => {
        const target = parseAnswerTarget(kwargs.id);
        if (!target) {
            throw new ArgumentError(
                'Answer ID must be a numeric id, a Zhihu answer URL, or answer:<qid>:<aid>',
                'Example: opencli zhihu answer-comments 1937205528846655537',
            );
        }
        const topLevelLimit = Number(kwargs.limit ?? 20);
        if (!Number.isInteger(topLevelLimit) || topLevelLimit <= 0 || topLevelLimit > MAX_LIMIT) {
            throw new ArgumentError(`--limit must be a positive integer no greater than ${MAX_LIMIT}`);
        }
        const repliesLimit = Number(kwargs['replies-limit'] ?? 3);
        if (!Number.isInteger(repliesLimit) || repliesLimit < 0 || repliesLimit > MAX_REPLIES_LIMIT) {
            throw new ArgumentError(`--replies-limit must be an integer between 0 and ${MAX_REPLIES_LIMIT}`);
        }
        const order = String(kwargs.order ?? 'score');
        if (order !== 'score' && order !== 'latest') {
            throw new ArgumentError('--order must be score or latest');
        }

        const { answerId } = target;

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Solutions

1. Pass a bare numeric answer id: opencli zhihu answer-comments 1937205528846655537
2. Or pass the full answer URL: https://www.zhihu.com/question/<qid>/answer/<aid>
3. Or use the answer:<qid>:<aid> form
4. Extract the numeric id from the URL path segment after /answer/ if you only have a link

Example fix

// before
opencli zhihu answer-comments https://www.zhihu.com/question/123
// after
opencli zhihu answer-comments https://www.zhihu.com/question/123/answer/1937205528846655537

const ANSWER_RE = /^(\d+)$|^https?:\/\/www\.zhihu\.com\/question\/(\d+)\/answer\/(\d+)|^answer:(\d+):(\d+)$/;
if (!ANSWER_RE.test(String(id).trim())) throw new Error('not a valid zhihu answer target');

const isAnswerTarget = (v) => typeof v === 'string' && (/^\d+$/.test(v.trim()) || /\/answer\/\d+/.test(v) || /^answer:\d+:\d+$/.test(v.trim()));

When it happens

Trigger: Calling the command with a question id instead of an answer id, an empty/missing --id, a URL of the wrong type (question or article URL), or a malformed answer:<...> string.

Common situations: Copy-pasting the wrong id from the Zhihu page; passing a zhihu.com/question/... link; forgetting the id argument entirely; shell quoting stripping the argument.

Related errors

• --limit must be a positive integer no greater than ${MAX_LIM
• --replies-limit must be an integer between 0 and ${MAX_REPLI
• --order must be score or latest
• Answer ID must be a numeric id, a Zhihu answer URL, or answe
• archive snapshots url cannot be empty

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