tonhowtf/omniget · error

Failed to access the page. Check the link and your…

Error message

Failed to access the page. Check the link and your connection.

What it means

Raised when yt-dlp's stderr contains both 'unable to download' and 'webpage', meaning yt-dlp could not fetch the page HTML itself. The wrapper reframes it as a page-access problem related to the link or the network.

Solutions

1. Open the URL in a browser to confirm the page loads and the link is correct
2. Pass cookies with --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for auth-walled pages
3. Add --user-agent or proxy options if the site blocks the default client
4. Retry after a delay if the site is temporarily down or rate-limiting

// probe the page with a plain HTTP request first
let resp = reqwest::get(url).await?;
if !resp.status().is_success() {
    eprintln!("Page not reachable ({}); fix link or use proxy/cookies", resp.status());
}

match result {
    Err(e) if e.to_string().contains("Failed to access the page") => {
        retry_with_backoff(|| download(), 2).await
    }
    other => other,
}

When it happens

Trigger: yt-dlp fails its initial HTTP request for the watch/page URL: HTTP errors, connection resets, bot checks/Cloudflare challenges, or geo/ISP blocks on the page itself.

Common situations: Sites behind Cloudflare bot protection, links behind paywalls requiring cookies, temporary site outages, or IP-level blocks after heavy scraping.

Understand the failure class

Background: 'Something went wrong' / 'Request failed (500)' / 'HTTP error! status: 404' — what failed HTTP requests actually mean and how to find the real cause — this error's family across 28 libraries.

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AI-assisted analysis of tonhowtf/omniget@8600b91f42 (2026-09-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/01893bff6ef10c06. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at src-tauri/omniget-core/src/core/ytdlp.rs:4489

        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| {
            let t = l.trim().to_lowercase();
            t.starts_with("error:") || t.starts_with("error ")
        })
        .unwrap_or("")
        .trim();

    let msg = if !last_error_line.is_empty() {
        last_error_line
            .strip_prefix("ERROR: ")

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