Puppeteer: Cannot extract value when no objectId is given

An internal remote-object operation requires an objectId but received none.

Error message

Cannot extract value when no objectId is given

How this error happens

An internal reference-only operation needs a CDP objectId. A primitive handle has a by-value representation and no object ID.

The snippets use an open Chrome/CDP page named page.

const handle = await page.evaluateHandle(() => {
    return 42;
});

const remote = handle.remoteObject();

console.log(remote.objectId);

How to fix

Read primitives by value through the public API instead of routing them to a reference-only decoder.

const value = await page.evaluate(() => {
    return 42;
});

console.log(value);

Things to keep in mind

Dispose the original handle after use. The first snippet exposes the missing-ID condition; it does not itself call the internal decoder or guarantee this error.

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