jackwener/OpenCLI · error · Error

Could not parse author/slug from input: ${raw}

Error message

Could not parse author/slug from input: ${raw}

What it means

Thrown by parseComponentInput when the input (or the pathname of a valid uiverse.io URL) does not resolve to exactly two path segments. The library strictly expects an author/slug pair; 1 segment (just an author), 3+ segments (extra path like /element/button/slug), or 0 segments all fail.

Source

Thrown at clis/uiverse/_shared.js:33

export function parseComponentInput(input) {
  const raw = String(input || '').trim();
  if (!raw) {
    throw new Error('Missing component input. Pass a full Uiverse URL or an author/slug identifier.');
  }

  let pathname = raw;
  if (/^https?:\/\//i.test(raw)) {
    const url = new URL(raw);
    if (url.hostname !== 'uiverse.io' && url.hostname !== 'www.uiverse.io') {
      throw new Error(`Unsupported non-Uiverse URL: ${raw}`);
    }
    pathname = url.pathname;
  }

  const cleaned = trimPathSegment(pathname);
  const segments = cleaned.split('/').filter(Boolean);
  if (segments.length !== 2) {
    throw new Error(`Could not parse author/slug from input: ${raw}`);
  }

  const [username, slug] = segments;
  if (!username || !slug) {
    throw new Error(`Invalid component identifier: ${raw}. Expected author/slug.`);
  }

  return {
    raw,
    username,
    slug,
    url: `${UIVERSE_BASE_URL}/${username}/${slug}`,
  };
}

async function fetchJsonInBrowser(page, url) {
  const raw = await page.evaluate(`(async () => {
    const url = ${JSON.stringify(url)};

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Solutions

1. Provide exactly author/slug, e.g. 'pravsingh/sky-button'
2. Use the component's canonical page URL https://uiverse.io/<author>/<slug>, not category or element pages
3. Strip extra path segments or trailing slashes/query strings from a copied URL
4. If you only know the author, browse their profile to pick a specific component slug

Example fix

// before
await getPostDetails(page, 'https://uiverse.io/element/checkbox'); // 2 segments but not author/slug context, or 'pravsingh' -> 1 segment
// after
await getPostDetails(page, 'https://uiverse.io/pravsingh/sky-button');

function assertAuthorSlug(input) {
  const path = input.startsWith('http') ? new URL(input).pathname : input;
  const segs = path.split('/').filter(Boolean);
  if (segs.length !== 2) throw new Error(`expected author/slug, got: ${input}`);
}
assertAuthorSlug(input);

const isAuthorSlug = (input) => {
  const path = /^https?:\/\//i.test(input) ? new URL(input).pathname : input;
  return path.split('/').filter(Boolean).length === 2;
};

try {
  const details = await getPostDetails(page, input);
} catch (e) {
  if (e.message.startsWith('Could not parse author/slug')) {
    console.error(`Bad identifier '${input}'. Use uiverse.io/<author>/<slug>.`);
    process.exit(2);
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Passing just the author name ('pravsingh'); passing a full URL with extra path segments (https://uiverse.io/a/b/c); passing a uiverse.io explore/element/category URL instead of a component page URL; passing a URL with query string only or a bare domain (pathname '/' -> 0 segments).

Common situations: Grabbing the wrong link off uiverse.io (an element category page like /element/checkbox instead of a component page); truncating a URL; building URLs programmatically and joining an extra segment; forgetting the slug portion of an author/slug pair.

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