jackwener/OpenCLI · error · CommandExecutionError

LinkedIn company URL must point to linkedin.com

Error message

LinkedIn company URL must point to linkedin.com

What it means

normalizeCompanyUrl validates that the user-supplied URL for a LinkedIn company page is an https URL on an allowed linkedin.com host with no credentials or explicit port. If any of these checks fail (wrong protocol, embedded userinfo, non-standard port, or hostname not in LINKEDIN_COMPANY_HOSTS), this error is thrown before any network request is made.

Source

Thrown at clis/linkedin/company.js:30

const LINKEDIN_COMPANY_HOSTS = new Set(['linkedin.com', LINKEDIN_DOMAIN]);

// Accept a bare universal name (`nvidia`), a `/company/<slug>` path, or a full
// company URL, and return the canonical about-page URL.
function normalizeCompanyUrl(value) {
    const raw = normalizeWhitespace(value || '');
    if (!raw) {
        throw new CommandExecutionError('LinkedIn company requires a company universal name or URL');
    }
    let slug = raw;
    if (/^https?:\/\//i.test(raw) || raw.startsWith('/company/')) {
        let parsed;
        try {
            parsed = raw.startsWith('/') ? new URL(raw, `https://${LINKEDIN_DOMAIN}`) : new URL(raw);
        } catch {
            throw new CommandExecutionError(`LinkedIn company received a malformed URL: ${raw}`);
        }
        if (parsed.protocol !== 'https:' || parsed.username || parsed.password || parsed.port || !LINKEDIN_COMPANY_HOSTS.has(parsed.hostname.toLowerCase())) {
            throw new CommandExecutionError('LinkedIn company URL must point to linkedin.com');
        }
        const m = parsed.pathname.match(COMPANY_URL_RE);
        if (!m) throw new CommandExecutionError('LinkedIn company URL must look like /company/<name>');
        try {
            slug = decodeURIComponent(m[1]);
        } catch {
            throw new CommandExecutionError(`LinkedIn company URL has a malformed company slug: ${m[1]}`);
        }
    }
    if (!SLUG_RE.test(slug)) {
        throw new CommandExecutionError(`LinkedIn company name has unexpected characters: ${slug}`);
    }
    return `https://www.linkedin.com/company/${encodeURIComponent(slug)}/about/`;
}

function buildCompanyExtractionScript() {
    return String.raw`(() => {
    const clean = (s) => String(s || '').replace(/[  ]+/g, ' ').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();

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Solutions

1. Use a canonical https LinkedIn company URL such as https://www.linkedin.com/company/<slug>/
2. Remove any userinfo (user:pass@) and explicit port from the URL
3. Ensure the hostname is exactly linkedin.com or www.linkedin.com (whatever LINKEDIN_COMPANY_HOSTS allows)
4. If normalizing user input, resolve short links first and pass only the final https://linkedin.com URL

Example fix

// before
await company({ url: 'http://linkedin.com:8080/company/acme' });
// after
await company({ url: 'https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme/' });

function isValidCompanyUrl(u) { try { const p = new URL(u); return p.protocol === 'https:' && !p.username && !p.password && !p.port && /(^|\.)linkedin\.com$/.test(p.hostname) && /^\/company\/[^/]+/.test(p.pathname); } catch { return false; } }
if (!isValidCompanyUrl(input)) throw new Error('Provide a canonical https://www.linkedin.com/company/<slug>/ URL');

function isLinkedInCompanyUrl(u) { try { const p = new URL(u); return p.protocol === 'https:' && p.hostname === 'www.linkedin.com' && p.pathname.startsWith('/company/') && p.pathname.length > '/company/'.length; } catch { return false; } }

try {
  const result = await company({ url: input });
} catch (err) {
  if (String(err.message).includes('must point to linkedin.com')) {
    // fix or prompt for the URL before retrying
  } else throw err;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling the company command with targetUrl set to a non-LinkedIn URL (e.g. a corporate site), an http:// LinkedIn URL, a URL containing user:pass@, an explicit port (:443/:8080), or a lookalike host like linkedin.company.com or www.linkedin.com.evil.io that is not in LINKEDIN_COMPANY_HOSTS.

Common situations: Config file or CLI flag holding the wrong URL (company homepage instead of the LinkedIn page); URL built by string concatenation adding a port; redirect/short-link resolving outside linkedin.com; pasting a URL with embedded credentials from a proxy tool.

Related errors

• LinkedIn company URL must look like /company/<name>
• LinkedIn company name has unexpected characters: ${slug}
• LinkedIn company URL has a malformed company slug: ${m[1]}
• LinkedIn post analytics expected an array of posts
• thread or recipient is required

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