jackwener/OpenCLI · error · EmptyResultError

No messages found in /chat/

Error message

No messages found in /chat/${id}.

What it means

Thrown by the kimi detail CLI command when it navigates to a Kimi conversation (/chat/<id>) and the DOM reader `readKimiTurns` returns zero message elements. The library treats an empty conversation page as a failed detail fetch rather than returning an empty result set. It wraps this in EmptyResultError to distinguish 'page loaded but no messages' from navigation or selector failures.

Solutions

1. Verify the conversation id/URL is valid by opening it in a browser and confirming messages render.
2. Retry the command once — first-load hydration may not have finished before readKimiTurns ran.
3. Send at least one message in the conversation before fetching detail.
4. Update the library or patch readKimiTurns selectors if the Kimi UI markup changed.

Example fix

// before: immediately fetch detail after creating a chat
await cli('kimi', 'detail', { conv: id });
// after: ensure the chat has content first
await cli('kimi', 'send', { conv: id, text: 'hello' });
await page.wait(2);
await cli('kimi', 'detail', { conv: id });

// before calling detail
const read = await cli('kimi', 'read', { conv });
if (read.length === 0) await page.wait(2); // let hydration finish

function hasTurns(t) { return Array.isArray(t) && t.length > 0; }

try {
  const detail = await cli('kimi', 'detail', { conv });
} catch (e) {
  if (/No messages found/.test(e.message)) {
    await page.wait(2);
    return retry(() => cli('kimi', 'detail', { conv }), 2);
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling `kimi detail` with a conv id/URL whose page contains no elements matched by the turn-reading selectors — e.g. a deleted, empty, or not-yet-rendered conversation, or a conv id that redirected to a new-chat page.

Common situations: Passing a stale chat id after Kimi expires/renames conversations; hitting the page before hydration finishes on slow networks; a Kimi UI update changing the DOM classes used to detect turns.

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.

Related errors

• No assistant message visible.
• No chat turns found on current page.
• composer type failed
• Copy button not visible
• document.cookie is empty (likely all cookies are httpOnly).

AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/57b02636e46bf5b4. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at clis/kimi/chat.js:180

    ],
    columns: CHAT_COLUMNS,
    func: async (page, kwargs) => {
        const id = parseChatId(kwargs.id);
        if (!id) throw new ArgumentError('id', 'is required');
        // Same trick as maybeNavigateConv: include chat_enter_method=history
        // to actually trigger Kimi's messages fetch.
        await page.goto(`${KIMI_URL}chat/${id}?chat_enter_method=history`);
        for (let i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
            const ok = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
        const list = document.querySelector('.chat-content-list') || document.querySelector('.message-list');
        return !!list && list.querySelectorAll('.chat-content-item, .segment').length > 0;
      })()`);
            if (ok) break;
            await page.wait(1);
        }
        const turns = await readKimiTurns(page);
        if (!turns.length) {
            throw new EmptyResultError('kimi detail', `No messages found in /chat/${id}.`);
        }
        const limit = Number.isInteger(kwargs?.limit) && kwargs.limit > 0 ? kwargs.limit : 20;
        return turns.slice(0, limit).map((t, i) => ({ Index: i + 1, Role: t.role, Text: (t.text || '').slice(0, 1200) }));
    },
});

// -------- read --------
cli({
    site: 'kimi',
    name: 'read',
    access: 'read',
    description: 'Read messages in the current Kimi chat. Pass --conv <id> to navigate to a specific chat first.',
    domain: KIMI_DOMAIN,
    strategy: Strategy.COOKIE,
    browser: true,
    siteSession: 'persistent',
    navigateBefore: false,
    args: [

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