jackwener/OpenCLI · error · CommandExecutionError

Xiaohongshu creator profile returned malformed personal_info

Error message

Xiaohongshu creator profile returned malformed personal_info payload

What it means

verifyXhsIdentity throws this CommandExecutionError when the personal_info API call succeeded (ok true) but parsed.data is missing — the response body isn't the expected {data:{name,fans_count,...}} shape. This is treated as a malformed payload rather than an auth problem, since the server responded.

Source

Thrown at clis/xiaohongshu/auth.js:32

      try {
        const resp = await fetch('/api/galaxy/creator/home/personal_info', { credentials: 'include' });
        const text = await resp.text();
        let parsed = null;
        try { parsed = JSON.parse(text); } catch {}
        return [resp.ok, resp.status, parsed, text.slice(0, 200)];
      } catch (error) {
        return [false, 0, null, String(error && error.message || error)];
      }
    }
  `);
  const [ok, status, parsed, preview] = Array.isArray(payload) ? payload : [];
  if (!ok) {
    const detail = parsed?.msg ?? preview ?? `HTTP ${status ?? ''}`;
    throw new AuthRequiredError('creator.xiaohongshu.com', `Xiaohongshu creator profile requires login: ${detail}`);
  }
  const data = parsed?.data;
  if (!data) {
    throw new CommandExecutionError('Xiaohongshu creator profile returned malformed personal_info payload');
  }
  return {
    username: data.name ?? '',
    followers: data.fans_count ?? 0,
  };
}

registerSiteAuthCommands({
  site: 'xiaohongshu',
  domain: 'creator.xiaohongshu.com',
  loginUrl: 'https://creator.xiaohongshu.com/',
  columns: ['username', 'followers'],
  quickCheck: hasXhsSessionCookies,
  verify: verifyXhsIdentity,
  poll: async (page) => {
    if (!await hasXhsSessionCookies(page)) {
      throw new AuthRequiredError('creator.xiaohongshu.com', 'Waiting for Xiaohongshu session cookies');
    }

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Solutions

1. Update the library to match the current personal_info response schema.
2. Log parsed/preview to inspect the actual response body shape.
3. Confirm the account actually has a creator profile on creator.xiaohongshu.com.
4. Retry — transient server issues may return empty data.
5. Re-login in case a half-valid session yields a degraded response.

Example fix

// before
const { username, followers } = await verifyXhsIdentity(page);
// after
let identity;
try {
  identity = await verifyXhsIdentity(page);
} catch (e) {
  if (String(e.message).includes('malformed personal_info')) {
    identity = { username: '', followers: 0 }; // tolerate missing creator data
  } else throw e;
}

// validate response shape yourself if you control the fetch layer
function hasCreatorData(parsed) {
  return parsed && typeof parsed === 'object' &&
         parsed.data && typeof parsed.data === 'object';
}

function hasCreatorData(p) {
  return !!p && typeof p === 'object' &&
         !!p.data && typeof p.data === 'object' &&
         typeof p.data.name === 'string';
}

try {
  return await verifyXhsIdentity(page);
} catch (e) {
  if (/malformed personal_info/.test(e.message)) {
    return { username: '', followers: 0 }; // degrade gracefully
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: parsed?.data is undefined after a successful request: XHS returned ok/ success wrapper without data, or the response shape changed (e.g. data nested differently, or an HTML error page parsed oddly).

Common situations: creator.xiaohongshu.com API version changed its response envelope; the account exists but has no creator profile data; server-side degradation returning empty data; a proxy/CDN injected an unexpected body.

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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