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title: 5001: Download capacity exhausted. | API Docs
description: Download capacity is temporarily exhausted.
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**HTTP status:** `503`.

The shared budget for attachment downloads is fully in use. The response carries a one-second Retry-After mirrored in error.retry\_after.

## Troubleshooting

- Wait error.retry\_after seconds and retry the same download; nothing about the attachment changed.

## Related

- [Downloading an attachment](/channel/whatsapp/api/resources/attachments/methods/download/index.md)