tonhowtf/omniget · error

Could not extract user and post_id from URL

Error message

Could not extract user and post_id from URL

What it means

native_get_media_info() for Bluesky extracts the handle and post id (rkey) from the URL via extract_user_and_post(). If the URL doesn't match the expected post-URL shape, it returns this error before making any network call. It's a URL-shape validation guard on the input link.

Solutions

1. Use the full post URL copied from Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/<handle>/post/<rkey>.
2. Normalize custom-domain links to bsky.app form before passing them in.
3. Extend extract_user_and_post() to handle AT-URI form (at://...) or extra URL segments.

Example fix

// before
let url_in = "https://bsky.app/profile/alice.bsky.social"; // profile URL -> error
// after
let url_in = "https://bsky.app/profile/alice.bsky.social/post/3kx2abc123"; // full post URL

fn looks_like_bluesky_post(url: &str) -> bool {
    url.contains("bsky.app/profile/") && url.contains("/post/")
}
if !looks_like_bluesky_post(url) { return Err(anyhow!("expected a bsky.app post URL")); }

fn parse_bsky_post(url: &str) -> Option<(String, String)> {
    let rest = url.strip_prefix("https://bsky.app/profile/")?;
    let mut it = rest.split('/');
    let user = it.next()?.to_string();
    let (_post, rkey) = (it.next()?, it.next()?.to_string());
    Some((user, rkey))
}

match get_media_info(url).await {
    Err(e) if e.to_string().contains("Could not extract user and post_id") => {
        eprintln!("use full post URL: https://bsky.app/profile/<handle>/post/<rkey>");
        Err(e)
    }
    other => other,
}

When it happens

Trigger: get_media_info() -> native_get_media_info() with a bluesky URL that extract_user_and_post() cannot parse — missing /post/<rkey> segment, wrong domain, profile or search URL, or extra query fragments.

Common situations: Passing https://bsky.app/profile/<user> (profile page) instead of a post URL; a shortened/custom-domain link; a URL with a trailing locale or query string the regex doesn't tolerate.

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

• Unsupported link
• Could not extract YouTube video ID
• Could not extract user and post_id from URL
• InvalidRequest
• Could not extract clip slug

AI-assisted analysis of tonhowtf/omniget@8600b91f42 (2026-09-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/0be418593977c541. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at src-tauri/omniget-core/src/platforms/bluesky.rs:33

    client: reqwest::Client,
}

impl Default for BlueskyDownloader {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self::new()
    }
}

impl BlueskyDownloader {
    async fn fallback_ytdlp(&self, url: &str) -> anyhow::Result<MediaInfo> {
        let ytdlp_path = crate::core::ytdlp::ensure_ytdlp().await?;
        let json = crate::core::ytdlp::get_video_info(&ytdlp_path, url, &[]).await?;
        crate::platforms::generic_ytdlp::GenericYtdlpDownloader::parse_video_info(&json)
    }

    async fn native_get_media_info(&self, url: &str) -> anyhow::Result<MediaInfo> {
        let (user, post_id) = Self::extract_user_and_post(url)
            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("Could not extract user and post_id from URL"))?;

        let json = self.fetch_post(&user, &post_id).await?;

        let embed = json
            .pointer("/thread/post/embed")
            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("Post does not contain media"))?;

        let media = extract_media(embed).ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("Unsupported media type"))?;

        let filename_base = format!("bluesky_{}_{}", sanitize_filename::sanitize(&user), post_id);

        match media {
            BlueskyMedia::Video { hls_url } => Ok(MediaInfo {
                title: filename_base,
                author: user,
                platform: "bluesky".to_string(),
                duration_seconds: None,
                thumbnail_url: None,

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