jackwener/OpenCLI · error · CommandExecutionError

Failed to fetch Douyin comments for video

Error message

Failed to fetch Douyin comments for video ${awemeId}: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}

What it means

A CommandExecutionError wrapping any non-CliError failure raised while fetching top comments for a video during douyin user-videos. fetchTopComments rethrows CliError subclasses untouched, but converts unexpected exceptions (browser page errors, API failures, timeouts) into a single message prefixed with the awemeId so batch processing can surface which video failed.

Solutions

1. Read the wrapped error.message (appended after the awemeId) to find the underlying cause.
2. Re-run the command with --with-comments disabled (or --comment-limit lowered) to confirm the videos themselves still list fine.
3. Reduce --comment-limit / concurrency pressure and retry after a pause if rate limited.
4. Refresh the Douyin session (re-run auth) if the underlying message suggests auth or empty responses.
5. If persistent, update the CLI package — the comment fetcher may lag a Douyin DOM change.

try {
  const { videos } = await run('douyin user-videos', { sec_uid, with_comments: true });
} catch (e) {
  if (e.name === 'CommandExecutionError' && /comments for video/.test(e.message)) {
    console.warn(`comment fetch failed (${e.message}); retrying without comments`);
    return run('douyin user-videos', { sec_uid, with_comments: false });
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling `douyin user-videos --with-comments` when fetchDouyinComments throws a non-CliError for one of the video's awemeIds — e.g. the comment popup never loads, the page DOM changed, or the browser tab crashed mid-batch.

Common situations: Douyin DOM/API change breaking the comment scraper; rate limiting or a network hiccup while mapInBatches hits videos concurrently; expired login state causing comment requests to return error pages instead of data.

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AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/901d1644bd0c3877. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at clis/douyin/user-videos.js:53

    return Math.min(DEFAULT_COMMENT_LIMIT, Math.max(1, Math.round(numeric)));
}
async function mapInBatches(items, concurrency, mapper) {
    const results = [];
    for (let index = 0; index < items.length; index += concurrency) {
        const chunk = items.slice(index, index + concurrency);
        results.push(...(await Promise.all(chunk.map(mapper))));
    }
    return results;
}
async function fetchTopComments(page, awemeId, count) {
    try {
        return await fetchDouyinComments(page, awemeId, count);
    }
    catch (error) {
        if (error instanceof CliError) {
            throw error;
        }
        throw new CommandExecutionError(`Failed to fetch Douyin comments for video ${awemeId}: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`);
    }
}
cli({
    site: 'douyin',
    name: 'user-videos',
    access: 'read',
    description: '获取指定用户的视频列表（含下载地址和热门评论）',
    domain: 'www.douyin.com',
    strategy: Strategy.COOKIE,
    args: [
        { name: 'sec_uid', type: 'string', required: true, positional: true, help: '用户 sec_uid（个人主页 URL 末尾部分，也可直接传整条主页 URL）' },
        { name: 'limit', type: 'int', default: 20, help: '获取数量（最大 20）' },
        { name: 'with_comments', type: 'bool', default: true, help: '包含热门评论（默认: true）' },
        { name: 'comment_limit', type: 'int', default: 10, help: '每个视频获取多少条评论（最大 10）' },
    ],
    columns: ['index', 'aweme_id', 'title', 'duration', 'digg_count', 'play_url', 'top_comments'],
    func: async (page, kwargs) => {
        const secUid = normalizeSecUid(kwargs.sec_uid);

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