YouTube and URL video downloads fail
Video downloads from YouTube and web URLs fail with 'Failed to download file' errors even when the site opens in a browser.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 1 February 2025 · last reported 8 November 2025
What's going wrong
Users of the Enjoy language-practice app report that adding a YouTube or other web video often fails with a download error, even when the video plays fine in their browser and a proxy is set.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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