jackwener/OpenCLI · error · AuthRequiredError

reddit.com: ${result.error}

Error message

reddit.com: ${result.error}

What it means

Thrown by the reddit `saved` command when the in-page script returns a result with an `error` field that is NOT the 'Not logged in' case. The error is forwarded as `reddit.com: <error>` under CommandExecutionError (auth failures get the dedicated AuthRequiredError instead). It represents any other failure inside the page-context fetch/scrape of saved posts.

Source

Thrown at clis/reddit/saved.js:45

        const limit = ${kwargs.limit};
        const res = await fetch('/user/' + username + '/saved.json?limit=' + limit + '&raw_json=1', {
          credentials: 'include'
        });
        const d = await res.json();
        return (d?.data?.children || []).map(c => ({
          title: c.data.title || c.data.body?.slice(0, 100) || '',
          subreddit: c.data.subreddit_name_prefixed || 'r/' + (c.data.subreddit || '?'),
          score: c.data.score || 0,
          comments: c.data.num_comments || 0,
          url: 'https://www.reddit.com' + (c.data.permalink || ''),
        }));
      } catch (e) {
        return { error: e.toString() };
      }
    })()`);
        if (result?.error) {
            if (String(result.error).includes('Not logged in'))
                throw new AuthRequiredError('reddit.com', result.error);
            throw new CommandExecutionError(result.error);
        }
        return (result || []).slice(0, kwargs.limit);
    }
});

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Solutions

1. Read the `result.error` text after the 'reddit.com:' prefix for the root cause
2. Confirm the session is still valid — an expired session can surface as a non-auth-looking error; re-login and retry
3. Update the CLI if Reddit changed its saved-posts endpoints/markup
4. Retry after a delay if the error indicates a transient fetch failure
5. Catch CommandExecutionError and degrade gracefully (show partial/empty saved list with a warning)

Example fix

// before
const saved = await runCli(['reddit', 'saved']);
// after
let saved;
try { saved = await runCli(['reddit', 'saved']); }
catch (e) { if (e.message.startsWith('reddit.com:')) { await loginReddit(); saved = await runCli(['reddit', 'saved']); } else throw e; }

// Pre-check login state cheaply inside the session:
const me = await page.evaluate("fetch('/api/me.json?raw_json=1',{credentials:'include'}).then(r=>r.json())");
if (!me?.name) throw new Error('Not logged in — authenticate first');

function isInPageError(r) {
  return r != null && typeof r === 'object' && typeof r.error === 'string' && !r.error.includes('Not logged in');
}

try {
  const saved = await runCli(['reddit', 'saved']);
} catch (e) {
  if (e.message.startsWith('reddit.com:')) {
    console.error('Saved-list scrape failed:', e.message.slice('reddit.com:'.length));
    await loginReddit(); // refresh session, then retry once
  } else throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: The page.evaluate script catches an exception and returns { error: e.toString() }, and the string does not contain 'Not logged in' — e.g. fetch failures inside reddit.com, unexpected JSON shapes, or DOM/API changes breaking the scrape.

Common situations: Reddit changing the saved-posts API or markup; rate limiting causing in-page fetches to fail; the saved list being huge and a chunked request failing; CORS/credentials anomalies after a session refresh.

Related errors

• ${result.error}
• Not a git repository
• Working tree not clean: ${status}
• 1point3acres thread
• 1point3acres user

AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/d88c17c1d2c02bd0. Report an issue: GitHub.