tonhowtf/omniget · error

No media found in post

Error message

No media found in post

What it means

extract_media_from_gql walks a successfully fetched GQL media node looking, in order, for edge_sidecar_to_children (carousel), video_url, and display_url. This error is thrown when the media node exists but none of those fields yield a usable URL — the JSON shape is recognized as a post but contains no downloadable media.

Solutions

  1. Dump the media node JSON when this fires and add handling for any new field names (Instagram occasionally renames display_url/video_url).
  2. Check whether the node has an edge_media_to_caption/owner but no media fields, which indicates an auth-stripped response — consider supplying cookies.
  3. Ensure carousel edges with missing video_url/display_url don't silently empty the items vec; log filtered-out edges.
  4. Fall back to the embed extractor or fallback_ytdlp for posts the GQL parser can't handle.
Defensive patterns

Strategy: fallback

Validate before calling

// Rust: verify the GQL node carries at least one known media field
fn gql_node_has_media(node: &serde_json::Value) -> bool {
    node.get("edge_sidecar_to_children").is_some()
        || node.get("video_url").is_some()
        || node.get("display_url").is_some()
}

Type guard

fn as_media_url(v: &serde_json::Value) -> Option<&str> {
    v.as_str().filter(|s| s.starts_with("http"))
}

Try / catch

match extract_media_from_gql(&node) {
    Ok(media) => media,
    Err(e) if e.to_string().contains("No media found in post") => {
        // node shape unrecognized; try embed extraction or yt-dlp
        fallback_extract(url).await
    }
    Err(e) => return Err(e.into()),
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: A GQL xdt_shortcode_media node that has no edge_sidecar_to_children.edges with resolvable node.video_url/display_url, no top-level video_url, and no top-level display_url — e.g. a media node returned in a degraded/error state, or an unsupported media type.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of tonhowtf/omniget@8600b91f42 (2026-09-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/07910499e3e977de. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at src-tauri/omniget-core/src/platforms/instagram.rs:547

                }
            }
        }

        if let Some(video_url) = data.get("video_url").and_then(|v| v.as_str()) {
            return Ok(InstagramMedia::Single {
                url: video_url.to_string(),
                is_video: true,
            });
        }

        if let Some(display_url) = data.get("display_url").and_then(|v| v.as_str()) {
            return Ok(InstagramMedia::Single {
                url: display_url.to_string(),
                is_video: false,
            });
        }

        Err(anyhow!("No media found in post"))
    }

    fn instagram_headers() -> reqwest::header::HeaderMap {
        let mut headers = reqwest::header::HeaderMap::new();
        headers.insert(
            reqwest::header::REFERER,
            "https://www.instagram.com/".parse().unwrap(),
        );
        headers.insert(
            reqwest::header::ORIGIN,
            "https://www.instagram.com".parse().unwrap(),
        );
        headers
    }

    fn post_url_from_title(title: &str) -> Option<String> {
        let post_id = title.strip_prefix("instagram_")?;
        if post_id.is_empty() {

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