jackwener/OpenCLI · warning · AuthRequiredError

Waiting for Weibo SUB / SUBP cookies

Error message

Waiting for Weibo SUB / SUBP cookies

What it means

During interactive login, the poll loop repeatedly checks whether the Weibo SUB/SUBP session cookies have been set. Until they appear, it throws AuthRequiredError with this message instead of running full identity verification. It signals 'login not finished yet', not a hard failure — the login flow keeps polling until timeout.

Source

Thrown at clis/weibo/auth.js:67

  if (result?.kind === 'exception') throw new CommandExecutionError(`Weibo whoami failed: ${result.detail}`);
  if (!result || Array.isArray(result) || typeof result !== 'object') {
    throw new CommandExecutionError('Weibo whoami returned malformed probe payload');
  }
  if (!result?.ok) throw new CommandExecutionError(`Unexpected Weibo probe: ${JSON.stringify(result)}`);
  if (!result.user_id) throw new CommandExecutionError('Weibo whoami returned no user id');
  return { user_id: result.user_id, screen_name: result.screen_name, profile_url: result.profile_url };
}

registerSiteAuthCommands({
  site: 'weibo',
  domain: 'weibo.com',
  loginUrl: 'https://weibo.com/login',
  columns: ['user_id', 'screen_name', 'profile_url'],
  quickCheck: hasWeiboSessionCookie,
  verify: verifyWeiboIdentity,
  poll: async (page) => {
    if (!await hasWeiboSessionCookie(page)) {
      throw new AuthRequiredError('weibo.com', 'Waiting for Weibo SUB / SUBP cookies');
    }
    return verifyWeiboIdentity(page);
  },
});

export const __test__ = { buildWeiboIdentityProbe, verifyWeiboIdentity };

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Solutions

  1. Complete the QR scan or credential login in the opened browser before the poll timeout
  2. Confirm login happened in the same browser profile/context the CLI controls
  3. Check that cookies are enabled and no extension blocks weibo.com cookies
  4. Retry the login; if it persists, verify the session manually and reuse that browser profile

Example fix

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Defensive patterns

Strategy: retry

Validate before calling

// check session cookies before starting the interactive flow
if (!(await hasWeiboSessionCookie(page))) {
  console.log('Complete the Weibo login in the opened browser...');
}

Type guard

function isAuthRequired(err) {
  return err instanceof AuthRequiredError || /Waiting for Weibo SUB \/ SUBP/.test(err.message);
}

Try / catch

try {
  identity = await pollWeiboLogin(page);
} catch (err) {
  if (isAuthRequired(err)) {
    console.log('Login not detected yet — rescan the QR code or retry weibo login');
  } else throw err;
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: The poll callback runs while the user has not completed QR-code/credential login, or login completed on a different browser context/profile than the one being polled, so the weibo.com domain cookies SUB and SUBP were never set.

Common situations: User scans the QR code too slowly (or not at all) during the login window, login is done in a different Chrome profile, cookies blocked by browser settings/extensions, or Weibo moved/renamed its session cookies.

Related errors

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