santifer/career-ops · error · Error

unknown source in --sources: ${source}

Error message

unknown source in --sources: ${source}

What it means

Error "unknown source in --sources: ${source}" thrown in santifer/career-ops.

Source

Thrown at company-funded.mjs:142

  }
  if (!Number.isInteger(opts.months) || opts.months <= 0 || opts.months > 120) {
    throw new Error('--months must be an integer from 1 to 120');
  }
  if (!['date', 'score'].includes(opts.sort)) {
    throw new Error('--sort must be date or score');
  }
  return opts;
}

function parseSources(value) {
  const out = String(value || '')
    .split(',')
    .map((s) => normalizeSourceName(s.trim()))
    .filter(Boolean);
  const unique = [...new Set(out)];
  const allowed = new Set(['techcrunch', 'prnewswire', 'guardian', 'hn']);
  for (const source of unique) {
    if (!allowed.has(source)) throw new Error(`unknown source in --sources: ${source}`);
  }
  return unique.length ? unique : [...DEFAULT_SOURCES];
}

function normalizeSourceName(value) {
  const s = String(value || '').toLowerCase().replace(/[_\s]+/g, '-');
  if (s === 'hacker-news' || s === 'hackernews' || s === 'hn') return 'hn';
  return s.replace(/-/g, '');
}

function compact(text) {
  return String(text || '').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
}

function companySlug(name) {
  return compact(name)
    .toLowerCase()
    .replace(/&/g, ' and ')

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Solutions

1. Use only the source names listed in --help for --sources.
2. Remove the unknown source or fix the typo.

Example fix

node company-funded.mjs --sources crunchbase,sec

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at company-funded.mjs:142 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of santifer/career-ops@9b17a8ac97 (2026-08-13). Data as JSON: /api/errors/81992b2bd986f778. Report an issue: GitHub.