Timeout for python requests.get entire response

Question

I'm gathering statistics on a list of websites and I'm using requests for it for simplicity. Here is my code:

data=[]
websites=['http://google.com', 'http://bbc.co.uk']
for w in websites:
    r= requests.get(w, verify=False)
    data.append( (r.url, len(r.content), r.elapsed.total_seconds(), str([(l.status_code, l.url) for l in r.history]), str(r.headers.items()), str(r.cookies.items())) )

Now, I want requests.get to timeout after 10 seconds so the loop doesn't get stuck.

This question has been of interest before too but none of the answers are clean. I will be putting some bounty on this to get a nice answer.

I hear that maybe not using requests is a good idea but then how should I get the nice things requests offer. (the ones in the tuple)

Answer 1

Well, I tried many solutions on this page and still faced instabilities, random hangs, poor connections performance.

I'm now using Curl and i'm really happy about it's "max time" functionnality and about the global performances, even with such a poor implementation :

content=commands.getoutput('curl -m6 -Ss "http://mywebsite.xyz"')

Here, I defined a 6 seconds max time parameter, englobing both connection and transfer time.

I'm sure Curl has a nice python binding, if you prefer to stick to the pythonic syntax :)

Answer 2

I came up with a more direct solution that is admittedly ugly but fixes the real problem. It goes a bit like this:

resp = requests.get(some_url, stream=True)
resp.raw._fp.fp._sock.settimeout(read_timeout)
# This will load the entire response even though stream is set
content = resp.content

You can read the full explanation here

Answer 3

this code working for socketError 11004 and 10060......

# -*- encoding:UTF-8 -*-
__author__ = 'ACE'
import requests
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *


class TimeOutModel(QThread):
    Existed = pyqtSignal(bool)
    TimeOut = pyqtSignal()

    def __init__(self, fun, timeout=500, parent=None):
        """
        @param fun: function or lambda
        @param timeout: ms
        """
        super(TimeOutModel, self).__init__(parent)
        self.fun = fun

        self.timeer = QTimer(self)
        self.timeer.setInterval(timeout)
        self.timeer.timeout.connect(self.time_timeout)
        self.Existed.connect(self.timeer.stop)
        self.timeer.start()

        self.setTerminationEnabled(True)

    def time_timeout(self):
        self.timeer.stop()
        self.TimeOut.emit()
        self.quit()
        self.terminate()

    def run(self):
        self.fun()


bb = lambda: requests.get("http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip")

a = QApplication([])

z = TimeOutModel(bb, 500)
print 'timeout'

a.exec_()

Answer 4

Just another one solution (got it from http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#streaming-uploads)

Before upload you can find out the content size:

TOO_LONG = 10*1024*1024  # 10 Mb
big_url = "http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip"
r = requests.get(big_url, stream=True)
print (r.headers['content-length'])
# 1073741824  

if int(r.headers['content-length']) < TOO_LONG:
    # upload content:
    content = r.content

But be careful, a sender can set up incorrect value in the 'content-length' response field.

Answer 5

There is a package called timeout-decorator that you can use to time out any python function.

@timeout_decorator.timeout(5)
def mytest():
    print("Start")
    for i in range(1,10):
        time.sleep(1)
        print("{} seconds have passed".format(i))

It uses the signals approach that some answers here suggest. Alternatively, you can tell it to use multiprocessing instead of signals (e.g. if you are in a multi-thread environment).

Answer 6

timeout = int(seconds)

Since requests >= 2.4.0, you can use the timeout argument of requests , i.e:

requests.get(url, timeout=10)

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Note:

timeout is not a time limit on the entire response download; rather, an exception is raised if the server has not issued a response for timeout seconds (more precisely, if no bytes have been received on the underlying socket for timeout seconds). If no timeout is specified explicitly, requests do not time out.