Requests - Handpng Timeouts

Timeouts can be easily added to the URL you are requesting. It so happens that, you are using a third-party URL and waiting for a response. It is always a good practice to give a timeout on the URL, as we might want the URL to respond within a timespan with a response or an error. Not doing so, can cause to wait on that request indefinitely.

We can give timeout to the URL by using the timeout param and value is passed in seconds as shown in the example below −

Example

import requests
getdata = 
requests.get( https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users ,timeout=0.001)
print(getdata.text)    

Output

raise ConnectTimeout(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout:
HTTPSConnectionPool(host= jsonplaceholder.typicode.com , 
port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /users (Caused 
by Connect
TimeoutError(<urlpb3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 
0x000000B02AD
E76A0>,  Connection to jsonplaceholder.typicode.com timed out. (connect 
timeout = 0.001) ))

The timeout given is as follows −

getdata = 
requests.get( https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users ,timeout=0.001)

The execution throws connection timeout error as shown in the output. The timeout given is 0.001, which is not possible for the request to get back the response and throws an error. Now, we will increase the timeout and check.

Example

import requests
getdata = 
requests.get( https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users ,timeout=1.000)
print(getdata.text)

Output

E:prequests>python makeRequest.py
[
   {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Leanne Graham",
      "username": "Bret",
      "email": "Sincere@april.biz",
      "address": {
         "street": "Kulas Light",
         "suite": "Apt. 556",
         "city": "Gwenborough",
         "zipcode": "92998-3874",
         "geo": {
            "lat": "-37.3159",
            "lng": "81.1496"
         }
      },
      "phone": "1-770-736-8031 x56442",
      "website": "hildegard.org",
      "company": {
         "name": "Romaguera-Crona",
         "catchPhrase": "Multi-layered cpent-server neural-net",
         "bs": "harness real-time e-markets"
      }
   }
] 

With a timeout of 1 second, we can get the response for the URL requested.