jackwener/OpenCLI · warning · CliError

EMPTY_RESULT

EMPTY_RESULT

Error message

EMPTY_RESULT

What it means

The transcript metadata response contained neither `transcriptUrl` nor `url`, so the CLI throws CliError EMPTY_RESULT with the hint that the episode may not have transcript data available. This distinguishes 'no transcript exists' from a hard parse failure.

Source

Thrown at clis/xiaoyuzhou/transcript.js:51

        if (!episode) {
            throw new CliError('NOT_FOUND', 'Episode not found', 'Please check the episode ID');
        }
        const mediaId = String(episode.transcript?.mediaId || episode.media?.id || episode.transcriptMediaId || '').trim();
        if (!mediaId) {
            throw new CliError('PARSE_ERROR', 'mediaId not found in episode payload', 'Transcript metadata requires episode.transcript.mediaId, episode.media.id, or episode.transcriptMediaId');
        }
        const transcriptResponse = await requestXiaoyuzhouJson('/v1/episode-transcript/get', {
            method: 'POST',
            body: {
                eid: kwargs.id,
                mediaId,
            },
            credentials,
        });
        const transcriptMeta = transcriptResponse.data;
        const transcriptUrl = String(transcriptMeta?.transcriptUrl || transcriptMeta?.url || '').trim();
        if (!transcriptUrl) {
            throw new CliError('EMPTY_RESULT', 'Transcript URL not found', 'This episode may not have transcript data available');
        }
        const transcriptBody = await fetchXiaoyuzhouTranscriptBody(transcriptUrl);
        const { text, segmentCount } = extractTranscriptText(transcriptBody);
        if (kwargs.text !== false && transcriptBody.trim() && !text.trim()) {
            throw new CliError('PARSE_ERROR', 'Failed to extract transcript text', 'Transcript payload format is unsupported. Re-run with --json true to inspect the raw payload.');
        }
        const outputDir = path.join(String(kwargs.output || './xiaoyuzhou-transcripts'), String(kwargs.id));
        fs.mkdirSync(outputDir, { recursive: true });
        const jsonPath = path.join(outputDir, 'transcript.json');
        const textPath = path.join(outputDir, 'transcript.txt');
        if (kwargs.json !== false) {
            fs.writeFileSync(jsonPath, transcriptBody, 'utf-8');
        }
        if (kwargs.text !== false) {
            fs.writeFileSync(textPath, text, 'utf-8');
        }
        return [{
                title: episode.title || 'episode',

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Solutions

1. Confirm the episode shows a transcript in the xiaoyuzhou app before retrying
2. Retry later if the transcript is still generating
3. Verify the eid belongs to a transcript-enabled episode type
4. Check xiaoyuzhou service status if many episodes return empty metadata

const meta = transcriptResponse?.data;
const url = String(meta?.transcriptUrl || meta?.url || '').trim();
if (!url) return null; // no transcript available

const hasTranscriptUrl = (m) => Boolean(m && (m.transcriptUrl || m.url));

try { await transcript(eid); } catch (e) { if (String(e).includes('EMPTY_RESULT')) { console.warn('No transcript available for this episode'); return null; } throw e; }

When it happens

Trigger: Calling the transcript command for an episode whose /v1/episode-transcript/get response has empty/absent transcriptUrl and url fields — typically episodes without generated transcripts or a metadata-only empty payload.

Common situations: Very new or very old episodes without ASR transcripts, episodes where transcript generation is still pending, region/permission-restricted metadata, or API responses degraded to empty objects during incidents.

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.

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AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/25d7ad4039484518. Report an issue: GitHub.