jackwener/OpenCLI · error · CommandExecutionError
Suno feed lookup returned malformed clips payload
Error message
Suno feed lookup returned malformed clips payload
What it means
A defensive second check: even when the feed fetch reports ok, the CLI re-validates that `result.clips` is an array before slicing/mapping. It throws if the payload shape is unusable.
Source
Thrown at clis/suno/list.js:59
const browserToken = JSON.stringify({ token: btoa(JSON.stringify({ timestamp: Date.now() })) });
const res = await fetch('${STUDIO_API}/api/feed/v2?page=${pageOffset}', {
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + (await window.Clerk.session.getToken()),
'browser-token': browserToken,
'device-id': ${JSON.stringify(deviceId)},
},
});
if (!res.ok) return { ok: false, status: res.status };
const data = await res.json().catch(() => null);
if (!data || !Array.isArray(data.clips)) return { ok: false, error: 'malformed clips payload' };
return { ok: true, clips: data.clips };
})()`));
if (!result?.ok) {
throw new CommandExecutionError(result?.error || `Suno feed lookup failed (HTTP ${result?.status || '?'}).`);
}
if (!Array.isArray(result.clips)) {
throw new CommandExecutionError('Suno feed lookup returned malformed clips payload');
}
if (result.clips.length === 0) {
throw new EmptyResultError('suno list', 'No Suno clips found in your library.');
}
return result.clips.slice(0, limit).map((c, i) => {
if (!c || typeof c.id !== 'string' || !c.id) {
throw new CommandExecutionError('Suno feed lookup returned malformed clip identity');
}
return {
rank: i + 1 + pageOffset * limit,
clip: c.id.slice(0, 8),
title: c.title || '(untitled)',
status: c.status || '?',
created: (c.created_at || '').replace('T', ' ').replace(/\..*$/, '').replace(/Z$/, ''),
link: `${SUNO_URL}/song/${c.id}`,
};
});View on GitHub (pinned to 49907e53dc)
Solutions
- Log the raw evaluate result from unwrapEvaluateResult to see the actual shape.
- Check for opencli/Suno schema drift and update the parsing code.
- Retry the command — if intermittent, it may be a serialization hiccup in the page bridge.
Example fix
// before: blind trust
const first = result.clips[0];
// after
if (!Array.isArray(result.clips)) throw new Error('unexpected feed payload: ' + JSON.stringify(result));
const first = result.clips[0]; Defensive patterns
Strategy: type-guard
Validate before calling
const result = unwrapEvaluateResult(await page.evaluate(feedScript));
if (!result || typeof result !== 'object') throw new Error('feed bridge returned non-object'); Type guard
function isFeedResultOk(r) { return !!r && r.ok === true && Array.isArray(r.clips); } Try / catch
try {
const clips = await listSunoClips();
} catch (e) {
if (/malformed clips payload/.test(e.message)) {
logRawBridgeResultForDebugging();
throw new Error('Suno feed schema drift or page-bridge issue — inspect raw payload');
}
throw e;
} Prevention
- Keep the in-page shape check and the post-unwrap check in sync after refactors.
- Log raw evaluate results on any payload anomaly.
- Add unit tests covering unwrapEvaluateResult edge cases (null, string, nested ok).
- Re-run the command once before deep debugging — serialization hiccups can be transient.
When it happens
Trigger: `result.ok === true` but `result.clips` is not an array — practically unreachable via the in-page evaluate (which already validates), but guards against unwrapEvaluateResult returning an unexpected shape.
Common situations: Tooling/hydration mismatch where unwrapEvaluateResult returns a non-standard object, or future refactors that bypass the in-page shape check.
Understand the failure class
Background: Schema validation failed / invalid input schema: payload rejected because its shape doesn't match the expected schema — this error's family across 28 libraries.
- Parsing and encoding errors: unexpected token, malformed input — why parsers reject input and how to find the real culprit.
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AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29).
Data as JSON: /api/errors/4875fa3f47fc08e6.
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