apify/crawlee · error · Error

]`)}: All attempts failed, and will not be retried

Error message

${colors.red(`[${label}]`)}: All ${retries} attempts failed, and will not be retried

${lastError.stack || lastError}

What it means

When downloading template files during `crawlee create`, the CLI retries failed network operations a fixed number of times. If every attempt fails it aggregates the last error's stack into this wrapped Error, prefixed with the operation label, and gives up.

Solutions

1. Read the inner `lastError.stack` in the message to find the root cause (DNS, HTTP status, etc.).
2. Fix network/proxy access (set HTTPS_PROXY, allow the template host) and retry the command.
3. Verify the template name exists (`npx crawlee create --list-templates` or docs).
4. Retry later if it's rate limiting or a transient outage.

Example fix

# before (fails behind proxy)
npx crawlee create my-app
# after
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.corp:8080
npx crawlee create my-app

await fetch(templateManifestUrl, { method: 'HEAD' }).catch((e) => { console.error('Template host unreachable:', e.message); process.exit(1); });

try { await createProject({ projectName: 'my-app', template: 'ts' }); } catch (err) { console.error(err.message); /* includes lastError.stack with root cause */ process.exitCode = 1; }

When it happens

Trigger: Fetching a project template or its manifest from the template repository fails on all retry attempts — network outage, DNS failure, 403/404 on the template URL, proxy blocking, or GitHub rate limiting.

Common situations: Corporate proxies/firewalls blocking registry or GitHub access; offline CI runners; requesting a nonexistent template name; transient network flaps lasting longer than the retry backoff (2500ms + 2500ms per attempt).

Related errors

• ]`)}: Attempt of failed, and will be retried
• Cannot fetch a request list from
• Cannot fetch a request list from
• <dynamic: message extracted from proxied error via…
• Failed to connect to remote browser at

AI-assisted analysis of apify/crawlee@dbe57fb09c (2026-08-30). Data as JSON: /api/errors/9f579483e057303a. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at packages/cli/src/commands/CreateProjectCommand.ts:62

        try {
            return (await func()) as Awaited<ReturnType<F>>;
        } catch (error: any) {
            attempt++;
            lastError = error;

            if (attempt < retries) {
                console.warn(
                    `${colors.yellow(`[${label}]`)}: Attempt ${attempt + 1} of ${retries} failed, and will be retried`,
                    error.message || error,
                );
            }

            // Wait 2500ms + (2500 * retries) before giving up to give it some time between retries
            await setTimeout(2500 + 2500 * attempt);
        }
    }

    throw new Error(
        `${colors.red(`[${label}]`)}: All ${retries} attempts failed, and will not be retried\n\n${
            lastError.stack || lastError
        }`,
    );
}

async function downloadTemplateFilesToDisk(template: Template, destinationDirectory: string) {
    const promises: Promise<void>[] = [];

    for (const file of template.files) {
        const promise = async () =>
            downloadFile(file.url).then(async (buffer) => {
                // Make sure the folder for the file exists
                const fileDirName = dirname(file.path);
                const fileFolder = resolve(destinationDirectory, fileDirName);
                await mkdir(fileFolder, { recursive: true });

                // Write the actual file

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