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xiaohongshu/unfollow: invalid profile URL

Error message

xiaohongshu/unfollow: invalid profile URL

What it means

assertUserId validates the user-id argument for the xiaohongshu/unfollow CLI command. When the argument looks like a URL (starts with http:// or https://), it is parsed with new URL(); if parsing fails, this ArgumentError is thrown. It means the string passed as user-id was clearly intended to be a URL but is not a syntactically valid URL.

Source

Thrown at clis/xiaohongshu/unfollow.js:43

    return host === 'xiaohongshu.com' || host.endsWith('.xiaohongshu.com');
}

function requireActionResult(payload, context) {
    const inner = unwrapEvaluateResult(payload);
    if (!inner || typeof inner !== 'object' || Array.isArray(inner) || typeof inner.ok !== 'boolean') {
        throw new CommandExecutionError(`xiaohongshu/unfollow: malformed ${context} payload`);
    }
    return inner;
}

function assertUserId(raw) {
    const input = String(raw ?? '').trim();
    if (/^https?:\/\//i.test(input)) {
        let parsed;
        try {
            parsed = new URL(input);
        } catch {
            throw new ArgumentError('xiaohongshu/unfollow: invalid profile URL');
        }
        if (parsed.protocol !== 'https:' || !isXiaohongshuHost(parsed.hostname)) {
            throw new ArgumentError('xiaohongshu/unfollow: profile URL must be an exact https://*.xiaohongshu.com URL');
        }
        const match = parsed.pathname.match(/^\/user\/profile\/([a-zA-Z0-9]{8,32})\/?$/);
        if (!match) {
            throw new ArgumentError('xiaohongshu/unfollow: profile URL must be /user/profile/<userId>');
        }
        return match[1];
    }
    const userId = normalizeXhsUserId(raw);
    if (!userId || !USER_ID_RE.test(userId)) {
        throw new ArgumentError(
            'xiaohongshu/unfollow: user-id must be a Xiaohongshu user ID (e.g. 5d8f88dc0000000001005d3a) or full profile URL',
        );
    }
    return userId;
}

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Solutions

1. Print the exact argument you are passing and re-copy the profile URL directly from the browser address bar, e.g. https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5d8f88dc0000000001005d3a
2. If you only have the user ID, drop the URL entirely and pass the bare ID (8-32 alphanumeric chars), e.g. xiaohongshu unfollow 5d8f88dc0000000001005d3a
3. Check shell quoting (wrap the URL in single quotes) and trim whitespace/newlines before passing it
4. Verify the URL scheme prefix is exactly http:// or https:// with two slashes

Example fix

// before
$ xiaohongshu unfollow 'https//www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5d8f88dc0000000001005d3a'
// after
$ xiaohongshu unfollow 'https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5d8f88dc0000000001005d3a'

const raw = String(arg ?? '').trim();
if (/^https?:\/\//i.test(raw)) { try { new URL(raw); } catch { throw new Error('Not a valid URL: ' + raw); } }

function looksLikeUrl(s) { return /^https?:\/\//i.test(String(s ?? '').trim()); }
function isValidUrl(s) { try { new URL(String(s).trim()); return true; } catch { return false; } }

try { await cli.unfollow({ 'user-id': arg }); } catch (e) { if (String(e.message).includes('invalid profile URL')) { /* sanitize or ask for a corrected URL */ } else throw e; }

When it happens

Trigger: Passing a malformed URL string as the positional user-id argument, e.g. 'htp://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/abc', 'https:/broken', or a URL with stray characters like 'https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/<id> ' containing quotes/brackets copied from markdown. The string must match /^https?:\/\//i to enter this branch.

Common situations: Copy-pasting a profile link from chat/docs where part of the URL got mangled (smart quotes, line breaks, missing slashes); programmatically building the URL with an uninitialized or interpolated variable (undefined), producing 'https://undefined/...'-like garbage; shell quoting stripping slashes.

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