What causes "bilibili pinned comments: ${bvid}" in jackwener/OpenCLI?

Run without --top to list normal comments instead

jackwener/OpenCLI · warning · EmptyResultError

bilibili pinned comments: ${bvid}

Error message

bilibili pinned comments: ${bvid}

What it means

An EmptyResultError thrown when --top was requested but the reply-main API returned an empty top_replies array — the video has no pinned comment, so there is nothing to show.

Source

Thrown at clis/bilibili/comments.js:154

        const aid = viewData?.aid;
        if (!aid)
            throw new CommandExecutionError(`Cannot resolve aid for bvid: ${bvid}`);
        const payload = parent != null
            ? await apiGet(page, '/x/v2/reply/reply', {
                params: { oid: aid, type: 1, root: parent, pn: 1, ps: limit },
            })
            : await apiGet(page, '/x/v2/reply/main', {
                params: { oid: aid, type: 1, mode: 3, ps: top ? 1 : limit },
                signed: true,
            });
        const label = parent != null ? 'reply thread' : 'reply main';
        const data = requireOkPayload(payload, label);
        const replies = top
            ? requireTopReplies(data, label)
            : requireReplies(data, label);
        if (replies.length === 0) {
            if (top) {
                throw new EmptyResultError(`bilibili pinned comments: ${bvid}`);
            }
            throw new EmptyResultError(parent != null ? `bilibili comment replies: ${parent}` : `bilibili comments: ${bvid}`);
        }
        return replies.slice(0, limit).map(formatReplyRow);
    },
});

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Solutions

Run without --top to list normal comments instead
Handle EmptyResultError as a benign 'no pinned comment' outcome in scripts
Pick a different video if the pinned comment specifically is required

Defensive patterns

Strategy: try-catch

Try / catch

try {
    const pinned = await bilibiliComments(bvid, { top: true });
} catch (err) {
    if (err instanceof EmptyResultError || /pinned comments/.test(err.message)) {
        const all = await bilibiliComments(bvid); // fall back to normal comments
    } else throw err;
}

Prevention

Treat EmptyResultError for --top as expected for most videos
Fall back to normal comments when no pin exists
Avoid assuming every video has a pinned comment in batch jobs
Check a video's page in the browser to confirm a pin exists first

When it happens

Trigger: Running 'bilibili comments <bvid> --top' on a video where the uploader/moderator has not pinned any comment (top_replies: [] after requireTopReplies).

Common situations: Most videos simply have no pinned comment; scripting a batch over videos assuming each has one; checking a freshly uploaded video before the author pinned anything.

Understand the failure class

Background: EmptyResultError / "no results found": when an API or scraper succeeds but returns zero rows — this error's family across 9 libraries.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/2571b24007b2e4bb. Report an issue: GitHub.