plandex-ai/plandex · error

failed to fetch content from URL %s: %v

Error message

failed to fetch content from URL %s: %v

What it means

url.FetchURLContent fails while loading a user-supplied URL as context. Covers DNS failure, non-2xx responses, timeouts, TLS errors, or content extraction failure — the URL's body could not be retrieved.

Source

Thrown at app/cli/lib/context_load.go:571

		}
	}

	if len(inputUrls) > 0 {
		for _, u := range inputUrls {
			composite := strings.Join([]string{string(shared.ContextURLType), u}, "|")
			if existsByComposite[composite] != nil {
				alreadyLoadedByComposite[composite] = existsByComposite[composite]
				continue
			}

			numRoutines++
			go func(u string) {
				sem <- struct{}{}
				defer func() { <-sem }()

				body, err := url.FetchURLContent(u)
				if err != nil {
					errCh <- fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch content from URL %s: %v", u, err)
					return
				}

				name := url.SanitizeURL(u)
				// show the first 20 characters, then ellipsis then the last 20 characters of 'name'
				if len(name) > 40 {
					name = name[:20] + "⋯" + name[len(name)-20:]
				}

				// Check the size of the URL body, just like a file:
				size := int64(len(body))

				contextMu.Lock()
				defer contextMu.Unlock()

				if size > shared.MaxContextBodySize {
					filesSkippedTooLarge = append(filesSkippedTooLarge, filePathWithSize{Path: u, Size: size})
					errCh <- nil

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Solutions

1. Open the URL in a browser to confirm it is reachable
2. Check for auth-gated or bot-blocked pages (401/403/429)
3. Retry with a direct raw-content URL or paste the content as a note instead

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at app/cli/lib/context_load.go:571 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of plandex-ai/plandex@e2d772072e (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/1066aa193274a3b7. Report an issue: GitHub.