jackwener/OpenCLI · error · ArgumentError

Provide --card-text (text-image mode) or --images (upload mo

Error message

Provide --card-text (text-image mode) or --images (upload mode); neither was given.

What it means

ArgumentError thrown when neither publish mode was supplied: no --card-text (text-image/文字配图 mode) and no --images (upload mode). The command requires exactly one of these two content sources and refuses to continue otherwise.

Source

Thrown at clis/xiaohongshu/publish.js:1206

        const topics = kwargs.topics
            ? String(kwargs.topics).split(',').map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean)
            : [];
        const isDraft = Boolean(kwargs.draft);
        const cardText = kwargs['card-text'] ? String(kwargs['card-text']) : '';
        const cards = cardText
            ? cardText.split(CARD_TEXT_DELIM).map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean)
            : [];
        const cardStyle = kwargs['card-style'] ? String(kwargs['card-style']).trim() : '';
        const isTextImage = cards.length > 0;
        // ── Validate inputs ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
        if (!title)
            throw new ArgumentError('--title is required');
        if (title.length > MAX_TITLE_LEN)
            throw new ArgumentError(`Title is ${title.length} chars — must be ≤ ${MAX_TITLE_LEN}`);
        if (!content)
            throw new ArgumentError('Positional argument <content> is required');
        if (!isTextImage && imagePaths.length === 0)
            throw new ArgumentError('Provide --card-text (text-image mode) or --images (upload mode); neither was given.');
        if (imagePaths.length > MAX_IMAGES)
            throw new ArgumentError(`Too many images: ${imagePaths.length} (max ${MAX_IMAGES})`);
        // The editor-page image input (text-image append) rejects gif.
        if (isTextImage && imagePaths.some((p) => path.extname(p).toLowerCase() === '.gif'))
            throw new ArgumentError('文字配图模式追加的图片不支持 .gif（编辑器图片入口只接受 jpg/jpeg/png/webp）');
        // Validate image paths before navigating (fast-fail on bad paths / unsupported formats)
        const absImagePaths = validateImagePaths(imagePaths);
        // ── Step 1: Navigate to publish page ──────────────────────────────────────
        await page.goto(PUBLISH_URL);
        await page.wait({ time: 3 });
        // Verify we landed on the creator site (not redirected to login)
        const pageUrl = await page.evaluate('() => location.href');
        if (!pageUrl.includes('creator.xiaohongshu.com')) {
            throw new Error('Redirected away from creator center — session may have expired. ' +
                'Re-capture browser login via: opencli xiaohongshu creator-profile');
        }
        // ── Step 2: Select 图文 (image+text) note type if tabs are present ─────────
        const tabResult = await selectImageTextTab(page);

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Solutions

1. Add --card-text "第一张|第二张" for text-image mode, or
2. Add --images "a.jpg,b.png" for upload mode
3. Check flag spelling — the flags are exactly --card-text and --images

Example fix

// before
node publish.js --title "标题" "正文"
// after
node publish.js --title "标题" "正文" --images "./pic1.jpg,./pic2.jpg"

const hasImages = imagesFlag && imagesFlag.trim().length > 0;
const hasCards = cardTextFlag && cardTextFlag.trim().length > 0;
if (!hasImages && !hasCards) throw new Error('Provide --card-text or --images');

function hasPublishSource(kwargs) {
  return Boolean(
    (kwargs.images && String(kwargs.images).trim()) ||
    (kwargs['card-text'] && String(kwargs['card-text']).trim())
  );
}

try {
  await publish(page, kwargs);
} catch (e) {
  if (String(e.message).includes('neither was given')) {
    console.error('Add --card-text "a|b" (text-image) or --images "1.jpg,2.jpg" (upload)');
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Running publish with --title and content but omitting both --card-text and --images, so isTextImage is false and imagePaths.length === 0.

Common situations: Thinking content alone is enough to publish (XHS requires at least one image or generated card images); misspelling the flags (--image, --cards); shell quoting causing the flag value to be parsed away.

Understand the failure class

Background: "missing required argument" and "the following required arguments were not provided": what required-argument errors mean and how to fix them — this error's family across 20 libraries.

Related errors

• --title is required
• Title is ${title.length} chars — must be ≤ ${MAX_TITLE_LEN}
• Positional argument <content> is required
• Too many images: ${imagePaths.length} (max ${MAX_IMAGES})
• INVALID_ARGUMENT

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