Bot is failing to identify token in about me

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Hello!

I've updated the token in my about me

But the bot says this

Any idea why? or is it because I'm testing it without having any purchases?

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Coding Plan

Approach

The bot's BuiltByBit profile verification is failing due to inadequate text normalization, potential DOM selector issues, and lack of debugging visibility. This plan implements a comprehensive solution that adds debugging capabilities, enhances text normalization and matching logic, and makes DOM selectors more resilient to handle various failure scenarios.

Observations

This is a Discord.js bot with a modular command structure. The main bot code lives in src/bot/ with commands in src/bot/commands/. The link-builtbybit.js command handles BuiltByBit account linking by generating a verification token, having users paste it in their profile, then scraping their profile with cheerio to verify the token exists. The bot uses native fetch for HTTP requests, stores tokens in-memory with a Map, and has minimal error handling/logging.

Assumptions

Assumption 1: What is causing the verification failures?

Options Considered:

• Add only text normalization (trim, whitespace collapse) - simple but might not solve selector issues
• Add debugging/logging first to diagnose the root cause - helps troubleshooting but doesn't fix the issue
• Comprehensive fix addressing text normalization, debugging, caching, and selector validation

Chosen Option: 3

Rationale: Implement a comprehensive solution because the lack of debugging makes root cause analysis impossible, and the simple token matching logic is too fragile. This approach fixes known issues while adding visibility for future problems.

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Implementation Steps

Phase 1: Add Debugging and Cache-Busting

Enhance visibility into the verification process and ensure fresh profile data is fetched.

Task 1: Add comprehensive logging to token verification flow

Improve debugging capability by logging key verification steps to help diagnose failures.

• Add console.log statements in src/bot/commands/link-builtbybit.js before and after token comparison (around line 85) to log:
  • The expected token being searched for
  • The raw scraped content from the About Me section
  • The comparison result
• Log when verification succeeds or fails with context about what was compared
• Add logging in the scrapeBuiltByBitProfile function to show the URL being fetched and response status

Task 2: Add cache-busting to profile fetch requests

Ensure the bot fetches fresh profile data rather than cached versions.

• Update the fetch call in scrapeBuiltByBitProfile function (around line 9) in src/bot/commands/link-builtbybit.js
• Add headers to the fetch request: 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache' and 'Pragma': 'no-cache'
• Optionally add a random query parameter to the URL to bypass CDN caching

Task 3: Improve error messages shown to users

Provide more actionable feedback when verification fails.

• Update the failure message in src/bot/commands/link-builtbybit.js (around line 104) to include:
  • Instructions to ensure there are no extra spaces or formatting around the token
  • Suggestion to wait 1-2 minutes if they just updated their profile (due to caching)
  • Note about checking that the token is in plain text without BBCode or HTML formatting
• Add a troubleshooting tip to check the console logs if they're testing in development

🤖 Prompt for AI agents

This phase adds debugging visibility and ensures fresh profile data is fetched
during verification. The goal is to make troubleshooting easier and prevent
cached data from causing false negatives.

Add comprehensive logging throughout the token verification flow in
`src/bot/commands/link-builtbybit.js`:
- Log the expected token, raw scraped About Me content, and comparison results
- Log URL being fetched and response status in scrapeBuiltByBitProfile

Update the fetch request to include cache-busting headers:
- Add 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache' and 'Pragma': 'no-cache' headers
- Consider adding a random query parameter to the URL

Enhance user-facing error messages to be more actionable:
- Include instructions about avoiding extra spaces and formatting
- Suggest waiting 1-2 minutes for profile cache to clear
- Note that the token should be plain text without BBCode or HTML

Phase 2: Enhance Text Normalization and Matching

Make token matching more resilient to whitespace, formatting, and encoding variations.

Task 1: Add text normalization before token comparison

Normalize both the scraped content and expected token to handle whitespace and formatting differences.

• In src/bot/commands/link-builtbybit.js, create a helper function normalizeText() that:
  • Trims leading/trailing whitespace
  • Collapses multiple spaces/newlines into single spaces
  • Removes zero-width characters and other invisible Unicode characters
• Apply this normalization to both scrapeResult.aboutMe and storedToken before the .includes() check (line 85)

Task 2: Add HTML entity decoding

Handle cases where BuiltByBit encodes special characters as HTML entities.

• Install or use a lightweight HTML entity decoder (cheerio may provide this, or use a utility function)
• Decode HTML entities in the scraped About Me text before normalization in src/bot/commands/link-builtbybit.js
• Test with common entities like  , &, <, >

Task 3: Strip BBCode tags from scraped content

Remove BBCode formatting that might interfere with token matching.

• Add a helper function to strip common BBCode tags like [b], [i], [url], etc.
• Apply this to the scraped content after HTML entity decoding but before normalization
• Keep the implementation simple - use regex to remove [tag] and [/tag] patterns

🤖 Prompt for AI agents

This phase makes token matching robust against various text formatting and
encoding issues. The goal is to handle whitespace variations, HTML entities, and
BBCode formatting that might prevent valid tokens from being recognized.

Create a normalizeText() helper function that:
- Trims leading/trailing whitespace
- Collapses multiple spaces and newlines into single spaces
- Removes zero-width and invisible Unicode characters

Add HTML entity decoding to handle encoded characters:
- Use cheerio's built-in decoder or implement a lightweight utility
- Decode common entities like  , &, <, >

Create a BBCode stripping function:
- Use regex to remove [tag] and [/tag] patterns
- Handle common tags like [b], [i], [url]

Apply these transformations in sequence to scraped content before token
comparison:
1. HTML entity decoding
2. BBCode stripping
3. Text normalization

Apply normalization to both the scraped content and stored token before the
.includes() check

Phase 3: Verify and Enhance DOM Selector

Ensure the cheerio selector still works with BuiltByBit's current HTML structure.

Task 1: Add fallback selectors for About Me section

Make the scraping more resilient if BuiltByBit changes their DOM structure.

• In scrapeBuiltByBitProfile function, try multiple selectors in order:
  • .memberAboutMe (current selector)
  • Alternative selectors that might contain the About Me text (e.g., .aboutMe, [class*="about"], etc.)
• Use the first selector that returns non-empty text
• Log which selector successfully found content

Task 2: Add validation for scraped content

Verify that meaningful content was actually extracted from the profile.

• After extracting text with cheerio in scrapeBuiltByBitProfile, check if the result is empty or too short
• Return a specific error message if the About Me section appears to be empty: "The About Me section appears empty. Please add content to your profile."
• Log the length of the scraped content for debugging

Task 3: Handle edge cases in profile scraping

Add error handling for additional failure scenarios.

• Check if the scraped HTML contains indicators that the profile doesn't exist or requires authentication
• Look for error page indicators in the HTML (e.g., "Profile not found", "Access denied")
• Return appropriate error messages for each case instead of generic failure messages
• Add a timeout to the fetch call to prevent hanging on slow responses

🤖 Prompt for AI agents

This phase makes the DOM scraping logic more resilient to HTML structure changes
and handles edge cases. The goal is to prevent failures when BuiltByBit updates
their page structure and provide better error messages for various failure
scenarios.

Implement fallback selector logic in scrapeBuiltByBitProfile:
- Try multiple selectors in order: .memberAboutMe, .aboutMe, [class*="about"]
- Use the first selector that returns non-empty text
- Log which selector successfully found content

Add content validation after extraction:
- Check if the scraped text is empty or too short
- Return a specific error message: "The About Me section appears empty. Please
add content to your profile."
- Log the content length for debugging

Handle edge cases and error scenarios:
- Detect if the HTML contains "Profile not found" or "Access denied" indicators
- Return appropriate error messages for each scenario
- Add a timeout to the fetch call to prevent hanging
- Replace generic failure messages with specific, actionable ones

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🚀 Next Steps

🤖 All AI agent prompts combined

Task: 1

This phase adds debugging visibility and ensures fresh profile data is fetched
during verification. The goal is to make troubleshooting easier and prevent
cached data from causing false negatives.

Add comprehensive logging throughout the token verification flow in
`src/bot/commands/link-builtbybit.js`:
- Log the expected token, raw scraped About Me content, and comparison results
- Log URL being fetched and response status in scrapeBuiltByBitProfile

Update the fetch request to include cache-busting headers:
- Add 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache' and 'Pragma': 'no-cache' headers
- Consider adding a random query parameter to the URL

Enhance user-facing error messages to be more actionable:
- Include instructions about avoiding extra spaces and formatting
- Suggest waiting 1-2 minutes for profile cache to clear
- Note that the token should be plain text without BBCode or HTML
===============================================================================

Task: 2

This phase makes token matching robust against various text formatting and
encoding issues. The goal is to handle whitespace variations, HTML entities, and
BBCode formatting that might prevent valid tokens from being recognized.

Create a normalizeText() helper function that:
- Trims leading/trailing whitespace
- Collapses multiple spaces and newlines into single spaces
- Removes zero-width and invisible Unicode characters

Add HTML entity decoding to handle encoded characters:
- Use cheerio's built-in decoder or implement a lightweight utility
- Decode common entities like  , &, <, >

Create a BBCode stripping function:
- Use regex to remove [tag] and [/tag] patterns
- Handle common tags like [b], [i], [url]

Apply these transformations in sequence to scraped content before token
comparison:
1. HTML entity decoding
2. BBCode stripping
3. Text normalization

Apply normalization to both the scraped content and stored token before the
.includes() check
===============================================================================

Task: 3

This phase makes the DOM scraping logic more resilient to HTML structure changes
and handles edge cases. The goal is to prevent failures when BuiltByBit updates
their page structure and provide better error messages for various failure
scenarios.

Implement fallback selector logic in scrapeBuiltByBitProfile:
- Try multiple selectors in order: .memberAboutMe, .aboutMe, [class*="about"]
- Use the first selector that returns non-empty text
- Log which selector successfully found content

Add content validation after extraction:
- Check if the scraped text is empty or too short
- Return a specific error message: "The About Me section appears empty. Please
add content to your profile."
- Log the content length for debugging

Handle edge cases and error scenarios:
- Detect if the HTML contains "Profile not found" or "Access denied" indicators
- Return appropriate error messages for each scenario
- Add a timeout to the fetch call to prevent hanging
- Replace generic failure messages with specific, actionable ones

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