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opencli notebooklm history

Error message

opencli notebooklm history

What it means

`opencli notebooklm history` throws this EmptyResultError when no notebook is currently open in the adapter session. The command requires a notebook context to fetch its chat history via listNotebooklmHistoryViaRpc, and getNotebooklmPageState reports a page kind other than 'notebook' (e.g. the home page or another surface).

Source

Thrown at clis/notebooklm/history.js:20

import { EmptyResultError } from '@jackwener/opencli/errors';
import { NOTEBOOKLM_DOMAIN, NOTEBOOKLM_SITE } from './shared.js';
import { getNotebooklmPageState, listNotebooklmHistoryViaRpc, requireNotebooklmSession, } from './utils.js';
cli({
    site: NOTEBOOKLM_SITE,
    name: 'history',
    access: 'read',
    description: 'List NotebookLM conversation history threads in the current notebook',
    domain: NOTEBOOKLM_DOMAIN,
    strategy: Strategy.COOKIE,
    browser: true,
    navigateBefore: false,
    args: [],
    columns: ['thread_id', 'item_count', 'preview', 'source', 'notebook_id', 'url'],
    func: async (page) => {
        await requireNotebooklmSession(page);
        const state = await getNotebooklmPageState(page);
        if (state.kind !== 'notebook') {
            throw new EmptyResultError('opencli notebooklm history', 'No NotebookLM notebook is open in the adapter session. Run `opencli notebooklm open <notebook>` first.');
        }
        const rows = await listNotebooklmHistoryViaRpc(page);
        return rows;
    },
});

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Solutions

1. Run `opencli notebooklm open <notebook-id-or-url>` first, then retry `opencli notebooklm history`.
2. Verify with `opencli notebooklm list -f json` that the notebook id you pass to `open` is valid.
3. Re-authenticate / refresh the browser session cookies if NotebookLM keeps redirecting to the home page.
4. Keep the same page session alive between `open` and `history`; do not navigate the page in between.

Example fix

// before
opencli notebooklm history
// after
opencli notebooklm open abc123-notebook
opencli notebooklm history

const state = await run('opencli notebooklm get -f json').catch(() => null);
if (!state) throw new Error('No notebook open: run `opencli notebooklm open <notebook>` before history');

function isNotebookOpen(state) {
  return !!state && state.kind === 'notebook' && typeof state.id === 'string';
}

try {
  history = await run('opencli notebooklm history -f json');
} catch (e) {
  if (String(e.message).includes('notebooklm history')) {
    await run('opencli notebooklm open <notebook-id>');
    history = await run('opencli notebooklm history -f json');
  } else throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling `opencli notebooklm history` (args: []) when getNotebooklmPageState(page).kind !== 'notebook' — typically because `opencli notebooklm open <notebook>` was never run in this session, or the browser navigated away.

Common situations: Fresh adapter session where only `list` was run; previous `open` failed silently; session cookies expired and NotebookLM redirected to the home page; script reuses a page that last visited the notebook list.

Related errors

• opencli notebooklm current
• opencli notebooklm get
• opencli notebooklm note-list
• opencli notebooklm notes-get
• No NotebookLM notebook is open in the adapter session. Run `

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