fix: handle empty media and prompt persistence

crates/xmedia-bot/src/handlers/repair.rs

@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ async fn refetch(
         .iter()
         .filter_map(|media| media_to_payload(media, fetched.sensitive))
         .collect();
+    if items.is_empty() {
+        return Ok(None);
+    }
     // The re-fetch may produce a fresh local file (ugoira / bsky remux): hand it
     // to the same keep-alive registry the first fetch uses.
     if let Some(dir) = fetched.keep_alive() {

crates/xmedia-bot/src/handlers/urls.rs

@@ -637,10 +637,7 @@ async fn url_media_inner(
             let format = chat_data.format_for(fetched.site_id);
             if fetched.media.is_empty() {
                 // A post with no media is still a post: its text goes out as a
-                // message (through the same caption the media path would
-                // attach, plus the long-post quoting the senders apply to
-                // their own), instead of answering "No media found" to text
-                // the fetch already parsed.
+                // message through the same caption the media path would attach.
                 let text = fetched
                     .render_fields()
                     .map(|(_, _, title, content, _)| x_media::site::compose_text(title, content))
@@ -652,14 +649,24 @@ async fn url_media_inner(
                 return;
             }
             let caption = fetched.caption_with(&format);
-            // Raw render data for the link cache; the send fills in the
-            // Telegram file ids and persists the entry.
             let cache_data = cached_snapshot(fetched);
             let items: Vec<MediaItemPayload> = fetched
                 .media
                 .iter()
                 .filter_map(|media| media_to_payload(media, fetched.sensitive))
                 .collect();
+            if items.is_empty() {
+                let text = fetched
+                    .render_fields()
+                    .map(|(_, _, title, content, _)| x_media::site::compose_text(title, content))
+                    .unwrap_or_default();
+                let caption = fetched.caption_with(&format);
+                let caption =
+                    send::quote_long_caption(&caption, &text, ctx.config.caption_quote_text_chars);
+                send::send_text_post(ctx, chat_id, reply_to.0 as i64, caption.into_owned()).await;
+                return;
+            }
+            *hint.lock() = ActionHint::for_items(&items);
             let task = build_send_task(
                 &chat_data,
                 chat_id,

crates/xmedia-bot/src/send/post_send.rs

@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn post_send_actions(ctx: &AppContext<'_>, task: &Task, message
                     log_key(&source_url)
                 );
                 let source_url = source_url.clone();
-                let _ = ctx
+                let saved = match ctx
                     .chat_store
                     .update(chat_id, move |data| {
                         data.edit_message.insert(
@@ -315,7 +315,25 @@ pub(crate) async fn post_send_actions(ctx: &AppContext<'_>, task: &Task, message
                             },
                         );
                     })
+                    .await
+                {
+                    Ok((_, true)) => true,
+                    Ok((_, false)) | Err(()) => false,
+                };
+                if !saved {
+                    log::error!("edit prompt {prompt_id} could not be persisted; removing it");
+                    let _ = ctx
+                        .sender
+                        .delete_message(ChatId(chat_id), MessageId(prompt_id as i32))
+                        .await;
+                    notify_failure(
+                        ctx.sender,
+                        notify_chat_id,
+                        notify_message_id,
+                        "Could not save the edit-before-forward prompt — nothing was forwarded.",
+                    )
                     .await;
+                }
             }
             Err(e) => {
                 log::error!("failed to send edit prompt: {e}");