jackwener/OpenCLI · error · ArgumentError

Jike search query cannot be empty

Error message

Jike search query cannot be empty

What it means

The jike search CLI trims the required positional query argument and throws ArgumentError if the result is an empty string, because the Jike search API cannot be meaningfully called without keywords. This is an input validation error raised before any network activity.

Source

Thrown at clis/jike/search.js:87

    throw new CommandExecutionError(`Jike search pagination exceeded ${MAX_PAGES} pages before satisfying --limit`);
}

cli({
    site: 'jike',
    name: 'search',
    access: 'read',
    description: '搜索即刻帖子',
    domain: 'web.okjike.com',
    strategy: Strategy.COOKIE,
    browser: true,
    args: [
        { name: 'query', type: 'string', required: true, positional: true, help: '即刻搜索关键词' },
        { name: 'limit', type: 'int', default: DEFAULT_LIMIT },
    ],
    columns: ['id', 'author', 'content', 'likes', 'comments', 'time', 'url'],
    func: async (page, kwargs) => {
        const keyword = String(kwargs.query || '').trim();
        if (!keyword) throw new ArgumentError('Jike search query cannot be empty');
        const limit = normalizeJikeLimit(kwargs.limit, DEFAULT_LIMIT);
        await page.goto(`https://web.okjike.com/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(keyword)}`);
        await requireJikeIdentity(page);
        return searchPosts(page, keyword, limit);
    },
});

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Solutions

1. Pass a non-empty keyword: opencli jike search "your query".
2. Trim-check your script variable before invoking the command.
3. If the empty value comes from a config/env variable, fix that source value.

Example fix

// before
const keyword = String(kwargs.query || '').trim();
if (!keyword) throw new ArgumentError('Jike search query cannot be empty');
// after: caller validates first
const q = (process.argv[2] || '').trim();
if (!q) { console.error('usage: jike-search <query>'); process.exit(1); }
await runCli(['jike', 'search', q]);

const q = String(rawQuery ?? '').trim();
if (!q) { console.error('jike search: query cannot be empty'); process.exit(2); }

When it happens

Trigger: Running the command with an empty string query, a whitespace-only query (' '), or quoting mistakes where the positional arg binds to nothing (kwargs.query undefined -> String(undefined||'') === '').

Common situations: Shell quoting errors (empty '' argument); variables interpolating to empty values in scripts; trailing whitespace the user assumes is valid; forgetting the positional argument in a non-interactive pipeline.

Understand the failure class

Background: "missing required argument" and "the following required arguments were not provided": what required-argument errors mean and how to fix them — this error's family across 20 libraries.

Related errors

• facebook marketplace-inbox --limit must be a positive intege
• Argument "content" is required.
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• --limit must be an integer between 1 and ${MAX_LIMIT}
• ${label} is required

AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/8e7a7615ef506dc6. Report an issue: GitHub.