jackwener/OpenCLI · error · EmptyResultError

Source "${query}" was not found in the current notebook.

Error message

Source "${query}" was not found in the current notebook.

What it means

After loading the notebook's source rows, source-fulltext matches the user's --source query with findNotebooklmSourceRow; if no row matches the given title/ID/substring, it throws an EmptyResultError naming the query. This is a lookup miss, not a transport problem — the notebook has sources, just not one matching the query.

Source

Thrown at clis/notebooklm/source-fulltext.js:37

            help: 'Source id or title from the current notebook',
        },
    ],
    columns: ['title', 'kind', 'char_count', 'url', 'source'],
    func: async (page, kwargs) => {
        await requireNotebooklmSession(page);
        const state = await getNotebooklmPageState(page);
        if (state.kind !== 'notebook') {
            throw new EmptyResultError('opencli notebooklm source-fulltext', 'No NotebookLM notebook is open in the adapter session. Run `opencli notebooklm open <notebook>` first.');
        }
        const rpcRows = await listNotebooklmSourcesViaRpc(page).catch(() => []);
        const rows = rpcRows.length > 0 ? rpcRows : await listNotebooklmSourcesFromPage(page);
        if (rows.length === 0) {
            throw new EmptyResultError('opencli notebooklm source-fulltext', 'No NotebookLM sources were found on the current page.');
        }
        const query = typeof kwargs.source === 'string' ? kwargs.source : String(kwargs.source ?? '');
        const matched = findNotebooklmSourceRow(rows, query);
        if (!matched) {
            throw new EmptyResultError('opencli notebooklm source-fulltext', `Source "${query}" was not found in the current notebook.`);
        }
        const fulltext = await getNotebooklmSourceFulltextViaRpc(page, matched.id).catch(() => null);
        if (fulltext)
            return [fulltext];
        throw new EmptyResultError('opencli notebooklm source-fulltext', `NotebookLM fulltext was not available for source "${matched.title}".`);
    },
});

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Solutions

1. Run the notebook's source list command and copy an exact title or ID from its output.
2. Check for typos and try a shorter distinctive substring of the title.
3. Confirm you are querying the notebook you intend (re-open the correct notebook).
4. If the source was renamed or deleted, re-add it or update the script's configured source name.

Example fix

// before: hardcoded possibly-stale name
const text = await sourceFulltext('Q3 Report Final v2');
// after: resolve the name from the live source list
const sources = await listSources();
const match = sources.find(s => s.title.includes('Q3'));
const text = await sourceFulltext(match.id);

const sources = await runCommand('notebooklm source-list');
const exact = sources.find(s => s.title === wanted || s.id === wanted);
if (!exact) throw new Error(`"${wanted}" not in source list; available: ${sources.map(s => s.title).join(', ')}`);

try {
  const rows = await runCommand('notebooklm source-fulltext', { source: query });
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof EmptyResultError && e.message.includes('was not found in the current notebook')) {
    // list sources, prompt user to pick or correct the query, then retry
  } else throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Passing a source name that doesn't exist in the notebook, a misspelled title, a stale ID after the source was deleted, a title that changed, or a query whose casing/punctuation differs from the stored title and defeats the matcher.

Common situations: Hardcoding source names in scripts after the notebook was edited; using a truncated or paraphrased title; sourcing from a different notebook than assumed; renamed sources.

Understand the failure class

Background: 'Could not be found', 'does not exist', 'not found in database': the resource-not-found family when an ID, slug, key, or URI lookup comes back empty — this error's family across 20 libraries.

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