jackwener/OpenCLI · warning · EmptyResultError

No papers found at venue "${value}". ${hint}

Error message

No papers found at venue "${value}". ${hint}

What it means

After querying the OpenReview API, the venue command throws EmptyResultError when zero notes come back, with a hint tailored to whether the input was an invitation id (contains '/-/') or plain venue text. This distinguishes a genuine 'nothing found' from a silent empty response.

Source

Thrown at clis/openreview/venue.js:46

    func: async (args) => {
        const value = String(args.venue ?? '').trim();
        if (!value) {
            throw new ArgumentError('openreview venue cannot be empty');
        }
        const limit = requireBoundedInt(args.limit, 25, 200);
        const offset = requireNonNegativeInt(args.offset, 0);
        const isInvitation = value.includes('/-/');
        const filter = isInvitation
            ? `invitation=${encodeURIComponent(value)}`
            : `content.venue=${encodeURIComponent(value)}`;
        const path = `/notes?${filter}&limit=${limit}&offset=${offset}`;
        const json = await openreviewFetch(path, `openreview venue ${value}`);
        const notes = Array.isArray(json?.notes) ? json.notes : [];
        if (!notes.length) {
            const hint = isInvitation
                ? 'Check the invitation id (e.g. "ICLR.cc/2025/Conference/-/Submission").'
                : 'Try a venue text like "ICLR 2024 oral" or pass a full invitation id.';
            throw new EmptyResultError('openreview', `No papers found at venue "${value}". ${hint}`);
        }
        return notes.slice(0, limit).map((note, i) => {
            const row = noteToRow(note);
            return {
                rank: offset + i + 1,
                id: row.id,
                title: row.title,
                authors: row.authors,
                keywords: row.keywords,
                primary_area: row.primary_area,
                pdate: row.pdate,
                pdf: row.pdf,
                url: row.url,
            };
        });
    },
});

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Solutions

1. If using an invitation id, verify it on openreview.net (e.g. 'ICLR.cc/2025/Conference/-/Submission').
2. Try plain venue text like 'ICLR 2024 oral' instead of an invitation id.
3. Try a different year or broader venue string; confirm the venue actually uses OpenReview.

Example fix

// before
cli venue 'ICLR.cc/2025/Conference/-/Submissions'
// after
cli venue 'ICLR.cc/2025/Conference/-/Submission'

import { EmptyResultError } from '.../errors.js';
try { const rows = await venueCmd(args); }
catch (e) { if (e instanceof EmptyResultError) { console.warn('nothing found; try broader venue text or a different year'); return []; } throw e; }

When it happens

Trigger: openreviewFetch returns json with notes: [] — the venue text matches no notes, or the invitation id is wrong/renamed/has no submissions.

Common situations: Typo in venue text ('ICLR 2025 orals'); invitation id from a previous year ('ICLR.cc/2024/...' for 2025 data); venue that does not publish to OpenReview; querying before submissions are posted.

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 dblp venues matched "${query}".
• No OpenReview submissions found for profile "${profile}". Co
• No paper found with id "${id}". Confirm the forum/note id fr
• No forum found with id "${forum}". Confirm the forum id from
• No papers found for "${term}". Try a different keyword.

AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/045cf5bf77b3b892. Report an issue: GitHub.