jackwener/OpenCLI · error · EmptyResultError

pinterest user

Error message

pinterest user

What it means

EmptyResultError from pinterest user: the UserResource API call with field_set_key 'profile' returned no user object (or one without a username), meaning the profile could not be resolved. The command throws so callers get a clear 'user not found' signal instead of undefined data.

Source

Thrown at clis/pinterest/user.js:30

  strategy: Strategy.COOKIE,
  args: [
    { name: 'username', type: 'string', positional: true, required: true, help: 'Username or profile URL, e.g. janedoe' },
  ],
  columns: ['username', 'fullName', 'followerCount', 'followingCount', 'interestFollowingCount', 'pinCount', 'boardCount', 'about', 'website', 'url'],
  func: async (page, kwargs) => {
    const username = parseUsername(kwargs.username);
    const sourceUrl = `/${username}/`;

    await page.goto(`${PINTEREST_BASE}${sourceUrl}`);

    const { data: user } = await pinterestResourceFetch(
      page,
      'UserResource',
      { username, field_set_key: 'profile' },
      sourceUrl,
    );
    if (!user || !user.username) {
      throw new EmptyResultError('pinterest user', `user "${username}" not found`);
    }

    const num = (value) => (typeof value === 'number' ? value : 0);
    return [{
      username: user.username,
      fullName: (user.full_name || '').trim(),
      followerCount: num(user.follower_count),
      // following_count is Pinterest's API total (followed people + topics/interests).
      followingCount: num(user.following_count),
      interestFollowingCount: num(user.interest_following_count),
      pinCount: num(user.pin_count),
      boardCount: num(user.board_count),
      about: (user.about || '').trim(),
      website: user.domain_url || '',
      url: `${PINTEREST_BASE}/${user.username}/`,
    }];
  },
});

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Solutions

1. Verify the username by opening https://pinterest.com/<username>/ in a browser
2. Correct stale usernames from your data source (renamed handles are common)
3. Retry after a delay/backoff if the account is known-good — empty UserResource responses can be transient
4. Catch EmptyResultError and mark the account as missing/unavailable in your pipeline

Example fix

// before
const user = await pinterest.user({ username: 'old_handle' }); // throws if gone
// after
try {
  return await pinterest.user({ username: 'old_handle' });
} catch (e) {
  if (e.name === 'EmptyResultError') return { status: 'user-not-found' };
  throw e;
}

if (!/^[A-Za-z0-9_]{3,}$/.test(username)) throw new Error('pre-check: username looks invalid');

try { user = await pinterest.user({ username }); }
catch (e) {
  if (e.name === 'EmptyResultError') return { found: false, username };
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Requesting /<username>/ where the account does not exist, was deleted or suspended, is private, or where the UserResource response arrives empty (rate limit, region block, or markup/API change).

Common situations: Typos in the username, following a stale cached username after the user renamed their handle, scraping deactivated accounts from an old list, or Pinterest throttling the automation session.

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

• pinterest user-boards
• pinterest user-pins
• No series found for '${brand}'. Check the brand name spellin
• This series has no koubei rating yet.
• ${command} returned no results

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