tonhowtf/omniget · warning

Connection timed out. Check your internet and try again.

Error message

Connection timed out. Check your internet and try again.

What it means

This error is produced by yt-dlp error classification in omniget-core. When yt-dlp's stderr contains 'timed out' or 'timeout', the wrapper converts it into a user-friendly anyhow error indicating a network timeout. It signals the yt-dlp subprocess could not reach the media server within the allowed time.

Solutions

1. Check basic internet connectivity and retry the download
2. Disable VPN/proxy or switch networks, then retry
3. Increase the socket timeout with yt-dlp's --socket-timeout flag
4. Retry later if the target host is rate-limiting or temporarily down

Example fix

// before
// raw yt-dlp stderr surfaces a cryptic timeout trace
// after
if lower.contains("timed out") || lower.contains("timeout") {
    return anyhow!("Connection timed out. Check your internet and try again.");
}

// quick connectivity probe before invoking yt-dlp
if reqwest::get("https://www.google.com/generate_204").await.is_err() {
    eprintln!("No network access; aborting download");
}

match result {
    Err(e) if e.to_string().contains("timed out") => {
        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(5)).await;
        retry_with_backoff(|| download(), 3).await
    }
    other => other,
}

When it happens

Trigger: Running a yt-dlp download/info extraction whose stderr matches 'timed out' or 'timeout' (case-insensitive) during classify; slow or unstable network, unreachable CDN, or proxy/firewall stalls during media fetch.

Common situations: Users behind corporate proxies or VPNs, weak mobile connections, throttled or blocked hosts (e.g. some CDNs in certain regions), or DNS resolution delays causing yt-dlp HTTP timeouts.

Understand the failure class

Background: Request timed out: what client-side request timeouts mean across libraries (Request timed out, TIMED_OUT, APITimeoutError) — this error's family across 39 libraries.

• Timeouts: ETIMEDOUT, deadlines, and hung requests — what actually expires when a request times out.

Related errors

• Download timeout — no data received for 30 seconds
• read timed out after
• connect timeout
• Failed to download yt-dlp: HTTP
• download falhou: HTTP

AI-assisted analysis of tonhowtf/omniget@8600b91f42 (2026-09-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/e295643fb9db5169. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at src-tauri/omniget-core/src/core/ytdlp.rs:4480

    if lower.contains("requested format") && lower.contains("not available") {
        return anyhow!(
            "Requested format is not available. The download will retry with a compatible format."
        );
    }
    if lower.contains("video unavailable") || lower.contains("not available") {
        return anyhow!("Video unavailable or removed.");
    }
    if lower.contains("private video") {
        return anyhow!("This video is private.");
    }
    if lower.contains("copyright") {
        return anyhow!("Video blocked due to copyright.");
    }
    if lower.contains("geo") && lower.contains("block") {
        return anyhow!("Video restricted in your region.");
    }
    if lower.contains("timed out") || lower.contains("timeout") {
        return anyhow!("Connection timed out. Check your internet and try again.");
    }
    if lower.contains("ffmpeg") && (lower.contains("not found") || lower.contains("no such file")) {
        return anyhow!("FFmpeg not found. Install FFmpeg to download this format.");
    }
    if lower.contains("unsupported url") || lower.contains("no suitable infojson") {
        return anyhow!("Unsupported URL. Check that the link is correct.");
    }
    if lower.contains("unable to download") && lower.contains("webpage") {
        return anyhow!("Failed to access the page. Check the link and your connection.");
    }
    if lower.contains("is not a valid url") || lower.contains("no video formats") {
        return anyhow!("No video formats found for this link.");
    }

    let last_error_line = stderr
        .lines()
        .rev()
        .find(|l| {

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