jackwener/OpenCLI · warning · EmptyResultError

No OpenReview submissions found for profile "${profile}". Co

Error message

No OpenReview submissions found for profile "${profile}". Confirm the id format (~First_LastN) and that the profile has public submissions.

What it means

The openreview author command fetches submissions for a given author profile id via the OpenReview API. If the API returns no notes array (or an empty one), the command throws EmptyResultError with guidance about the ~First_LastN profile id format, since a wrong id format is the most common cause of empty results.

Source

Thrown at clis/openreview/author.js:40

    name: 'author',
    access: 'read',
    description: 'List OpenReview submissions by an author profile id (newest first)',
    domain: 'openreview.net',
    strategy: Strategy.PUBLIC,
    browser: false,
    args: [
        { name: 'profile', positional: true, required: true, help: 'OpenReview profile id (e.g. "~Yoshua_Bengio1"). Find it on the author profile URL on openreview.net.' },
        { name: 'limit', type: 'int', default: 50, help: 'Max submissions (1-1000)' },
    ],
    columns: ['rank', 'id', 'title', 'authors', 'venue', 'pdate', 'url'],
    func: async (args) => {
        const profile = requireProfileId(args.profile);
        const limit = requireBoundedInt(args.limit, 50, 1000);
        const path = `/notes?content.authorids=${encodeURIComponent(profile)}&limit=${limit}&sort=cdate:desc`;
        const json = await openreviewFetch(path, `openreview author ${profile}`);
        const notes = Array.isArray(json?.notes) ? json.notes : [];
        if (!notes.length) {
            throw new EmptyResultError(
                'openreview author',
                `No OpenReview submissions found for profile "${profile}". Confirm the id format (~First_LastN) and that the profile has public submissions.`,
            );
        }
        return notes.slice(0, limit).map((note, i) => {
            const row = noteToRow(note);
            return {
                rank: i + 1,
                id: row.id,
                title: row.title,
                authors: row.authors,
                venue: row.venue,
                pdate: row.pdate,
                url: row.url,
            };
        });
    },
});

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Solutions

1. Verify the exact profile id on openreview.net (visit the profile page and copy the ~First_LastN id)
2. Append/adjust the numeric disambiguation suffix if the author name is common (~Jane_Doe1 vs ~Jane_Doe2)
3. Check on openreview.net that the profile actually has publicly visible submissions
4. Increase --limit if you suspect results beyond the current cap (max 1000)
5. Test the id directly against the API URL /notes?content.authorids=<id> to confirm the response

Example fix

// before
const json = await openreviewFetch(`/notes?content.authorids=${profile}&limit=${limit}`);
// after (verify profile id format first)
if (!/^~[A-Za-z]+_[A-Za-z]+\d*$/.test(profile)) {
    throw new ArgumentError(`Profile id "${profile}" does not match ~First_LastN format`);
}
const json = await openreviewFetch(`/notes?content.authorids=${encodeURIComponent(profile)}&limit=${limit}`);

if (typeof profile !== 'string' || !/^~[A-Za-z]+_[A-Za-z]+\d*$/.test(profile.trim())) {
    throw new Error(`Profile id must match ~First_LastN format, got: ${profile}`);
}

function isValidProfileId(v) {
    return typeof v === 'string' && /^~[A-Za-z]+_[A-Za-z]+\d*$/.test(v.trim());
}

try {
    const notes = await authorCommand({ profile: '~Jane_Doe1', limit: 50 });
} catch (err) {
    if (err instanceof EmptyResultError) {
        console.error('No submissions; verify the ~First_LastN id on openreview.net.');
    } else {
        throw err;
    }
}

When it happens

Trigger: openreviewFetch('/notes?content.authorids=...') succeeds but json.notes is missing or empty — i.e. the API returned zero notes for that authorids filter.

Common situations: Profile id not in ~First_LastN format (e.g. using an email or display name); numeric suffix wrong or missing when authors share a name; profile has no public submissions (e.g. desk-rejected or withdrawn); typo or changed OpenReview id (v1 vs v2 API ids).

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.

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AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/7ebf2ccb6a567fe6. Report an issue: GitHub.