Note: The timeout parameter does not prevent the request from loading forever, it only stops if the remote server fails to send response data within the timeout value. It could still load indefinitely.
Set the timeout parameter:
try:
r = requests.get("example.com", timeout=10) # 10 seconds
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
print("Timed out")
The code above will cause the call to requests.get() to timeout if the connection or delays between reads takes more than ten seconds.
The timeout parameter accepts the number of seconds to wait as a float, as well as a (connect timeout, read timeout) tuple.
See requests.request documentation as well as the timeout section of the "Advanced Usage" section of the documentation.
Answer from Lukasa on Stack OverflowNote: The timeout parameter does not prevent the request from loading forever, it only stops if the remote server fails to send response data within the timeout value. It could still load indefinitely.
Set the timeout parameter:
try:
r = requests.get("example.com", timeout=10) # 10 seconds
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
print("Timed out")
The code above will cause the call to requests.get() to timeout if the connection or delays between reads takes more than ten seconds.
The timeout parameter accepts the number of seconds to wait as a float, as well as a (connect timeout, read timeout) tuple.
See requests.request documentation as well as the timeout section of the "Advanced Usage" section of the documentation.
What about using 'eventlet'? If you want to timeout the request after 10 seconds, even if data is being received, this snippet will work for you:
import requests
import eventlet
eventlet.monkey_patch()
with eventlet.Timeout(10):
requests.get("http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip", verify=False)
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I’m testing an API using Python's requests library but keep running into a Timeout error: "Request timed out", even though the same setup works fine in Postman.
import requests
url = "https://api.example.com/endpoint"
headers = {
"Key1": "value1",
"Key2": "value2",
"Cookie": "CSToken=the actual token"
}
try:
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=10)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
print("Request timed out")
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")Questions:
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Could there be additional settings or implicit headers in Postman I’m missing in Python?
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What steps can I take to debug or resolve this issue?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
What I Tried: I sent a POST request to the API using Python's requests library, including the Cookie header with the authentication token, as done in Postman.
What I Expected: I expected the API to return the same successful response it does in Postman.
What Actually Happened: The request timed out, raising a Timeout exception in Python, even though it works without issues in Postman.
The requests (for humans) library has connection timeouts, see - https://requests.kennethreitz.org/en/master/user/advanced/#timeouts
r = requests.get('https://github.com', timeout=(3.05, 27))
# e.g. explicitly
conn_timeout = 6
read_timeout = 60
timeouts = (conn_timeout, read_timeout)
r = requests.get('https://github.com', timeout=timeouts)
The docs are not exactly explicit about which value is which in the tuple, but it might be safe to assume that it's (connect, read) timeouts.
The timeout is used for both the socket connect stage and the response reading stage. The only exception is streamed requests; if you set stream=True, the timeout cannot be applied to the reading portion. The timeout is indeed used just for waiting for the socket to connect or data to be received.
If you need an overall timeout, then use another technique, like using interrupts or eventlets: Timeout for python requests.get entire response
I don't understand why I don't get a response from Best Buy's website. I get a status code of 200 if I swap best buy's page out for Amazon's home page. Is it a 403 Error that I'm getting from Best Buy? All I see on my end is an error:
urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.bestbuy.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)
I don't understand why I don't receive a status code, or something indicating what's happening after the request is sent. So I'm just sort of in the dark in how to proceed. I can use a different site to learn BeautifulSoup, but I'd love to know why this doesnt work. My code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36'}
response = requests.get(
'https://www.bestbuy.com', headers=headers, timeout=60)
print (response.status_code)