jackwener/OpenCLI · error · AuthRequiredError

Weibo SUB / SUBP cookies missing

Error message

Weibo SUB / SUBP cookies missing

What it means

verifyWeiboIdentity first checks for Weibo's SUB/SUBP session cookies via hasWeiboSessionCookie. If they are absent, it throws AuthRequiredError('weibo.com', 'Weibo SUB / SUBP cookies missing') because there is no logged-in session to verify identity against.

Source

Thrown at clis/weibo/auth.js:37

      if (res.status === 401 || res.status === 403) {
        return { kind: 'auth', detail: 'Weibo /ajax/profile/info HTTP ' + res.status };
      }
      if (!res.ok) return { kind: 'http', httpStatus: res.status };
      const d = await res.json();
      const user = d && d.data && d.data.user;
      if (!user || !user.id) {
        return { kind: 'auth', detail: 'Weibo /ajax/profile/info returned no user — anonymous' };
      }
      return { ok: true, user_id: String(user.id), screen_name: String(user.screen_name || ''), profile_url: String(user.profile_url || '') };
    } catch (e) {
      return { kind: 'exception', detail: String(e && e.message || e) };
    }
  })()`;
}

async function verifyWeiboIdentity(page) {
  if (!await hasWeiboSessionCookie(page)) {
    throw new AuthRequiredError('weibo.com', 'Weibo SUB / SUBP cookies missing');
  }
  await page.goto('https://weibo.com/');
  await page.wait(3);
  // getSelfUid throws AuthRequiredError when no logged-in uid can be resolved.
  const uid = await getSelfUid(page);
  if (typeof uid !== 'string' || !uid.trim()) {
    throw new CommandExecutionError('Weibo uid resolver returned a malformed uid');
  }
  const result = unwrapEvaluateResult(await page.evaluate(buildWeiboIdentityProbe(uid)));
  if (result?.kind === 'auth') throw new AuthRequiredError('weibo.com', result.detail);
  if (result?.kind === 'http') throw new CommandExecutionError(`HTTP ${result.httpStatus} from /ajax/profile/info`);
  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 };

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Solutions

  1. Log in to weibo.com in the controlled browser (or run the weibo login command) before publishing
  2. Use a persistent session profile so cookies survive between runs
  3. Check cookie names/domains in hasWeiboSessionCookie still match Weibo's current session cookies
  4. Re-run after clearing corrupted cookie state and logging in fresh

Example fix

// before
await publish(page, opts); // page has no session
// after
const auth = await checkWeiboAuth(page);
if (!auth.ok) await runWeiboLogin(page); // sets SUB/SUBP cookies
await publish(page, opts);
Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

const cookies = await page.getCookies?.() ?? [];
const hasSession = cookies.some(c => ['SUB','SUBP'].includes(c.name) && c.value);
if (!hasSession) throw new Error('Log in to weibo.com first — SUB/SUBP cookies missing');

Type guard

function hasWeiboCookies(cookieList) {
  return Array.isArray(cookieList) &&
    ['SUB', 'SUBP'].every(name => cookieList.some(c => c.name === name && !!c.value));
}

Try / catch

try {
  await verifyWeiboIdentity(page);
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof AuthRequiredError && /SUB \/ SUBP/.test(e.message)) {
    console.error('No Weibo session — run the login flow, then retry.');
  } else throw e;
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: hasWeiboSessionCookie(page) resolves false: cookies were never set, expired, cleared, or the page belongs to a different browser context/profile.

Common situations: Running against a fresh/incognito browser profile; Weibo invalidated old session cookies; cookies stored under a different domain variant (weibo.cn vs weibo.com); user logged out between commands.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/287ce24f47981202. Report an issue: GitHub.