jackwener/OpenCLI · warning · AuthRequiredError

Waiting for Toutiao sessionid cookie

Error message

Waiting for Toutiao sessionid cookie

What it means

AuthRequiredError thrown by the toutiao site-auth poll handler on each poll tick while waiting for the user to finish login: if the sessionid cookie is not yet present, the poll throws instead of returning an identity. It signals 'login not finished yet' during the interactive polling loop, not a hard failure.

Source

Thrown at clis/toutiao/auth.js:66

      }
      return { ok: true, user_id: userId, nickname };
    })()
  `);
  if (probe?.kind === 'auth') throw new AuthRequiredError('toutiao.com', probe.detail);
  if (!probe?.ok) throw new CommandExecutionError(`Unexpected Toutiao probe: ${JSON.stringify(probe)}`);
  return { user_id: probe.user_id, nickname: probe.nickname };
}

registerSiteAuthCommands({
  site: 'toutiao',
  domain: 'toutiao.com',
  loginUrl: 'https://mp.toutiao.com/auth/page/login',
  columns: ['user_id', 'nickname'],
  quickCheck: hasToutiaoSessionCookie,
  verify: verifyToutiaoIdentity,
  poll: async (page) => {
    if (!await hasToutiaoSessionCookie(page)) {
      throw new AuthRequiredError('toutiao.com', 'Waiting for Toutiao sessionid cookie');
    }
    return verifyToutiaoIdentity(page);
  },
});

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Solutions

1. Complete the login at https://mp.toutiao.com/auth/page/login in the browser window before the poll window expires; the next poll then succeeds.
2. If the poll loop aborts on this throw, restart toutiao auth login and finish login promptly.
3. Handle AuthRequiredError in your polling wrapper and keep polling until a deadline instead of aborting on the first throw.
4. Clear any CAPTCHA/interstitials quickly, or log in manually beforehand in the same profile so the cookie already exists.
5. Increase the poll timeout/deadline if your login path (2FA, SMS, QR) routinely exceeds it.

Example fix

// before: caller aborts on the first poll throw
await pollUntil(() => authPoll(page), timeout);
// after: tolerate 'waiting' during login
await pollUntil(async () => {
  try {
    return await authPoll(page);
  } catch (e) {
    if (e.name === 'AuthRequiredError' && /Waiting for/.test(e.message)) return false;
    throw e;
  }
}, timeout);

// Caller-side preflight before starting the login poll
const deadline = Date.now() + 120_000;
const hasSession = async () =>
  (await page.getCookies({ url: 'https://mp.toutiao.com' }))
    .some(c => c.name === 'sessionid' && c.value);
if (!(await hasSession()) && Date.now() > deadline) {
  throw new Error('Login window expired without a sessionid cookie');
}

function isWaitingForLoginError(err) {
  return !!err && err.name === 'AuthRequiredError' && /Waiting for Toutiao sessionid cookie/.test(err.message);
}

try {
  await toutiaoAuthLogin(page);
} catch (err) {
  if (isWaitingForLoginError(err)) {
    // keep polling until the deadline instead of aborting
    console.warn('Login not finished yet — retrying poll...');
  } else {
    throw err;
  }
}

When it happens

Trigger: During the toutiao auth login/poll flow, a poll iteration runs before login completes — getCookies for https://mp.toutiao.com still has no non-empty sessionid cookie.

Common situations: User is slow entering credentials/2FA in the opened login window; a CAPTCHA or QR-code scan is pending; the user closed the login tab without logging in; the poll window is too short for the chosen login method.

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