# Chia failed to fetch error

**URL:** <https://chiaforum.com/t/chia-failed-to-fetch-error/756>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 14, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://chiaforum.com/t/chia-failed-to-fetch-error/756 "2025-09-14T09:03:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gwosgd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@gwosgd](https://chiaforum.com/u/gwosgd)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://chiaforum.com/t/chia-failed-to-fetch-error/756/1 "2025-09-14T09:03:08Z")

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Hi everyone!  
I’m still a complete beginner in Chia mining and I want to join a pool, but every time I enter a pool URL I get this error:

“The pool URL ‘https….’ is not working. Is it a pool? Error: failed to fetch”

I’ve already tried around 15 different pool links, spent hours scrolling through Google, and even asked ChatGPT — but no luck. It feels like nobody else has ever run into this error. I really hope that at least here someone can help me figure this out.

Also, I would be very grateful if anyone could share some active links to good pools with frequent payouts — that would save me a lot.

P.S. My wallet is fully synced, everything shows green, I already have about 10 plots farming, and the app itself doesn’t show any other errors. That’s why I don’t understand what’s going wrong.

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**Author:** ![madderhat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/chiaforum.com/madderhat/32/84_2.png) [@madderhat](https://chiaforum.com/u/madderhat)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://chiaforum.com/t/chia-failed-to-fetch-error/756/3 "2025-09-14T13:56:00Z")

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See this thread: [Can not join any pool after update 2.5.5 - #5 by clydewallace22](https://chiaforum.com/t/can-not-join-any-pool-after-update-2-5-5/752/5)

This is a known bug in the GUI. The workaround is to use the CLI. The current RC2 has a fix for this.

To use the CLI:

Find your plotNFT wallet id

```bash
chia wallet show -w pooling_wallet

```

Update your pool

```bash
chia plotnft join -i (wallet id) -u https://pool.xchpool.org (or whatever pool you want to join) -m (fee in xch, such as 0.000001)

```

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**Author:** ![madderhat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/chiaforum.com/madderhat/32/84_2.png) [@madderhat](https://chiaforum.com/u/madderhat)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://chiaforum.com/t/chia-failed-to-fetch-error/756/5 "2025-10-19T16:44:02Z")

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This issue is resolved in the latest version 2.5.6

> **[Downloads](https://www.chia.net/downloads/)**