jackwener/OpenCLI · warning · EmptyResultError

youtube feed

Error message

youtube feed

What it means

EmptyResultError thrown by `youtube feed` when the page script succeeded and returned an array, but it contained zero items. The library treats an empty home feed as an exceptional condition rather than a valid empty result, signaling that no feed videos were extracted.

Source

Thrown at clis/youtube/feed.js:117

              if (videos.length >= limit) break;
              const v = extractFromItem(item);
              if (v?.video_id) {
                videos.push({ rank: videos.length + 1, ...v, url: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' + v.video_id });
              }
            }
            contItem = newItems[newItems.length - 1];
          }
        }

        return videos;
      })()
    `);
        if (!Array.isArray(data)) {
            const errMsg = data && typeof data === 'object' ? String(data.error || '') : '';
            throw new CommandExecutionError(errMsg || 'Failed to fetch YouTube feed');
        }
        if (data.length === 0) {
            throw new EmptyResultError('youtube feed');
        }
        return data;
    },
});

View on GitHub (pinned to 49907e53dc)

Solutions

  1. Scroll/interact on youtube.com first so the account has feed content, then re-run.
  2. Wait and retry — the extractor may have snapshotted before the feed rendered.
  3. Check account type/region restrictions (child accounts, consent walls).
  4. If the account clearly has a feed but the command returns empty, report a selector regression in the library.
Defensive patterns

Strategy: fallback

Type guard

function isEmptyFeed(videos) {
  return Array.isArray(videos) && videos.length === 0;
}

Try / catch

try {
  return await yt.feed();
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof EmptyResultError) {
    return []; // treat empty feed as a valid empty state for your app
  }
  throw e;
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: Calling `youtube feed` on a fresh/freshly-logged-in account with no watch signals, a page rendered without feed sections at scrape time, or region/consent settings that suppress the feed grid while selectors still technically match.

Common situations: Brand-new Google account with an empty home feed; feed delayed by slow loading so the extractor snapshot ran too early; restricted/child accounts or EU consent walls hiding recommendations; VPN/region making the feed empty.

Understand the failure class

Background: EmptyResultError / "no results found": when an API or scraper succeeds but returns zero rows — this error's family across 9 libraries.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b0f024b95f36772b. Report an issue: GitHub.