Struggling with search

Hi, I’m trying to use masto.js to search for toots and post some. I’m currently stuck at the search part, with different results (and errors) depending on the q parameter.

I initially wanted to find my own toots containing my site URL:

const dotenv = require("dotenv");
const { login } = require("masto");

dotenv.config();

const main = async () => {
  const MastodonClient = await login({
    url: process.env.MASTODON_INSTANCE,
    accessToken: process.env.MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN,
  });

  try {
    const search = await MastodonClient.search({
      type: "statuses",
      accountId: `${process.env.MASTODON_ID}`,
      q: "https://nicolas-hoizey.com/",
    });
    if (search) {
      for await (const statuses of search) {
        console.dir(statuses);
      }
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.dir(error);
  }
};

main();

But I get this error:

Error [MastoUnprocessableEntityError]: Unprocessable Entity
    at MastoUnprocessableEntityError.MastoError [as constructor] (./node_modules/masto/dist/index.js:176:28)
    at new MastoUnprocessableEntityError (./node_modules/masto/dist/index.js:301:28)
    at createError (./node_modules/masto/dist/index.js:330:20)
    at HttpAxiosImpl.<anonymous> (./node_modules/masto/dist/index.js:2885:31)
    at step (./node_modules/masto/dist/index.js:103:23)
    at Object.throw (./node_modules/masto/dist/index.js:84:53)
    at rejected (./node_modules/masto/dist/index.js:75:65)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {
  statusCode: 422,
  description: 'No description provided for this error',
  details: undefined,
  isMastoError: true
}

I tried different values for the q parameter, with various results or error, and I don’t understand the logic, or what I’m doing wrong:

value of q	result
"a-dumb-string-I-m-sure-it-will-not-find"	Finds a lot of content but not containing this string
'"a-dumb-string-I-m-sure-it-will-not-find"'	Error: Content-Type is not defined
'"adumbstringImsureitwillnotfind"'	Error: Content-Type is not defined
"adumbstringImsureitwillnotfind"	{ accounts: [], statuses: [], hashtags: [] } 👍
"https://nicolas-hoizey.com/"	Error [MastoUnprocessableEntityError]: Unprocessable Entity
`‘“https://nicolas-hoizey.com/”’	Error: Content-Type is not defined

Is there something I missed in the docs, that I should use to “prepare” the q value for these searches to work?

Thanks! 🙏

[nightpool]

@nhoizey yes, because you’ve passed a full URL without indicating that you want to allow Mastodon to resolve this URL and make an authenticated HTTP Signatures request for it using your ID.

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