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Failed to open NotebookLM notebook ${notebookId}: ${error?.m

Error message

Failed to open NotebookLM notebook ${notebookId}: ${error?.message || error}

What it means

This CommandExecutionError wraps any failure while navigating the adapter page to the target notebook's URL (`page.goto` + wait) during `notebooklm generate-audio`. It exists to attach the notebookId to the underlying navigation error.

Source

Thrown at clis/notebooklm/generate-audio.js:68

    description: 'Trigger an Audio Overview (Deep Dive podcast) generation for a NotebookLM notebook, using all of its sources',
    domain: NOTEBOOKLM_DOMAIN,
    strategy: Strategy.COOKIE,
    browser: true,
    navigateBefore: false,
    args: [
        { name: 'notebook', positional: true, required: true, help: 'Notebook id from `notebooklm list` or full notebook URL' },
        { name: 'execute', type: 'boolean', help: 'Actually trigger remote NotebookLM audio generation' },
    ],
    columns: ['notebook_id', 'audio_id', 'source_count', 'status', 'notebook_url'],
    func: async (page, kwargs) => {
        const notebookId = parseNotebooklmNotebookTarget(String(kwargs.notebook ?? ''));
        requireNotebooklmExecute(kwargs.execute, 'generate NotebookLM audio');
        try {
            await page.goto(buildNotebooklmNotebookUrl(notebookId));
            await page.wait(2);
        }
        catch (error) {
            throw new CommandExecutionError(`Failed to open NotebookLM notebook ${notebookId}: ${error?.message || error}`);
        }
        await requireNotebooklmSession(page);
        const sources = await listNotebooklmSourcesViaRpc(page);
        const sourceIds = sources.map((s) => s.id).filter((id) => typeof id === 'string' && id);
        if (sourceIds.length === 0) {
            throw new EmptyResultError('notebooklm generate-audio', 'The notebook has no sources; add a source before generating an audio overview.');
        }
        const rpc = await callNotebooklmRpc(page, NOTEBOOKLM_CREATE_AUDIO_RPC_ID, buildCreateAudioArgs(notebookId, sourceIds));
        const audioId = parseAudioIdFromResult(rpc.result, [notebookId, ...sourceIds]);
        if (!audioId) {
            throw new CommandExecutionError('NotebookLM CreateAudioOverview RPC returned no audio id; server may have rejected the request.');
        }
        return [{
            notebook_id: notebookId,
            audio_id: audioId,
            source_count: sourceIds.length,
            status: 'pending',
            notebook_url: buildNotebooklmNotebookUrl(notebookId),

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Solutions

1. Check the notebookId is a valid NotebookLM notebook id/URL and correct typos.
2. Re-authenticate the NotebookLM session (refresh cookies / re-login) and retry.
3. Verify network connectivity and that the adapter browser session is alive, then rerun generate-audio.

Example fix

// before
callGenerateAudio({ notebookId: 'abc' }) // typo id -> goto fails
// after
const id = 'a1b2c3...verified-from-notebooklm-current'
callGenerateAudio({ notebookId: id })

if (!notebookId || !/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/.test(notebookId)) throw new Error(`invalid notebookId: ${notebookId}`);
const state = await getNotebooklmPageState(page);
if (!state) throw new Error('adapter session is not alive');

const isValidNotebookId = (id) => typeof id === 'string' && id.trim().length > 0;

try {
  await generateAudio({ notebookId });
} catch (e) {
  if (String(e.message).startsWith('Failed to open NotebookLM notebook')) {
    await refreshNotebooklmSession();
    return await generateAudio({ notebookId });
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: `page.goto(buildNotebooklmNotebookUrl(notebookId))` or `page.wait(2)` throws — invalid/malformed notebookId producing a bad URL, network timeout, session browser closed, or NotebookLM redirect to login.

Common situations: Typo'd or truncated notebook id; NotebookLM auth cookie expired so navigation redirects and errors; offline or rate-limited session; browser tab crashed.

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