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oraclecloud: invalid URL

Error message

oraclecloud: invalid URL: ${url}

What it means

The oraclecloud provider validates URLs with assertOracleUrl. This error is thrown when the string cannot be parsed by the URL constructor at all — missing scheme, malformed syntax, empty input. It fails before any hostname or protocol checks.

Solutions

1. Fix the URL so it is a complete absolute https:// URL
2. Trim whitespace and fix YAML quoting/indentation that may truncate the value
3. Verify the variable providing the URL is set and non-empty
4. Remove entries not meant for the Oracle Cloud provider

Example fix

// before
const url = entry.careers_url; // undefined -> 'undefined' string throws
assertOracleUrl(url);
// after
const url = (entry.careers_url || '').trim();
if (!url) return null;
assertOracleUrl(url);

function isParsableUrl(u) { try { new URL(u); return true; } catch { return false; } }
if (!isParsableUrl(entry.careers_url)) throw new Error(`bad oraclecloud url: ${entry.careers_url}`);

function isAbsoluteUrl(u) {
  if (typeof u !== 'string' || !u.trim()) return false;
  try { const p = new URL(u); return !!p.hostname; } catch { return false; }
}

try {
  useOracle(url);
} catch (e) {
  if (String(e.message).startsWith('oraclecloud: invalid URL')) {
    log.warn(`Skipping malformed Oracle URL: ${url}`);
    return null;
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Passing an empty string, a scheme-less host ('mysite.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com'), or a syntactically broken URL ('https://', 'https:/host') into the oraclecloud provider's detect/fetch path or assertOracleUrl directly.

Common situations: Config entry with a missing or truncated Oracle Fusion careers URL; unset env var interpolated into the entry; YAML quoting/line-wrap mistakes; placeholder not replaced in a template entry.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Invalid URL" errors: why new URL(), URI.parse, and reqwest::Url reject your string — missing scheme, whitespace, and bad path format — this error's family across 39 libraries.

Related errors

• garena: is not a usable URL segment
• landingjobs: invalid URL
• larajobs: invalid URL
• lever: invalid URL
• nodesk: invalid URL

AI-assisted analysis of santifer/career-ops@e7abd431fc (2026-09-16). Data as JSON: /api/errors/dd028b5327cb46e7. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at providers/oraclecloud.mjs:66

// oraclecloud99.com. No leading zero, at most two digits — a bounded family,
// so this stays a host pin and never becomes a wildcard apex match.
const ORACLE_HOST_RE = /^[a-z0-9-]+\.fa\.(?:[a-z0-9-]+\.)?(?:ocs\.)?oraclecloud(?:[1-9][0-9]?)?\.com$/i;

const PAGE_SIZE = 200;
const MAX_PAGES = 25;             // safety cap (~5000 jobs); hard ceiling like workday
const RETRY_POLICY = { retries: 3 };
const INTER_PAGE_DELAY_MS = 250;  // WAF-aware spacing between same-host pages

// facetsList is a fixed constant on the finder; %3B is the encoded ';' separator.
const FACETS_LIST = 'LOCATIONS%3BWORK_LOCATIONS%3BWORKPLACE_TYPES%3BTITLES%3BCATEGORIES%3BORGANIZATIONS%3BPOSTING_DATES%3BFLEX_FIELDS';

/** @param {string} url */
function assertOracleUrl(url) {
  let parsed;
  try {
    parsed = new URL(url);
  } catch {
    throw new Error(`oraclecloud: invalid URL: ${url}`);
  }
  if (parsed.protocol !== 'https:') throw new Error(`oraclecloud: URL must use HTTPS: ${url}`);
  if (!ORACLE_HOST_RE.test(parsed.hostname)) {
    throw new Error(`oraclecloud: untrusted hostname "${parsed.hostname}" — must match *.fa[.<region>][.ocs].oraclecloud[1-99].com`);
  }
  return url;
}

// NaN-safe Date.parse — `|| undefined` would also coerce a valid epoch 0.
// (copied from greenhouse.mjs)
function toEpochMs(value) {
  if (!value) return undefined;
  const parsed = Date.parse(value);
  return Number.isNaN(parsed) ? undefined : parsed;
}

function sleep(ms, ctx) {
  if (typeof ctx?.sleep === 'function') return ctx.sleep(ms);

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