How can I set a timeout for urllib3 request?

December 9, 2022

How can I get urllib3 to try to reach a site for 10 seconds and return an error or data if it can’t?

http = urllib3.PoolManager()

page = http.request('get', link)

>Solution :

Based on Timeout configuration ^{[urllib3-docs]}
you can set a timeout for your request when you’re using urllib3 in all the below ways:

Timeouts can be defined as a default for a pool:
timeout = Timeout(connect=2.0, read=7.0)
http = PoolManager(timeout=timeout)
response = http.request('GET', 'http://example.com/')
Or per-request (which overrides the default for the pool):
response = http.request('GET', 'http://example.com/', >timeout=Timeout(10))
Timeouts can be disabled by setting all the parameters to None:
no_timeout = Timeout(connect=None, read=None)
response = http.request('GET', 'http://example.com/, >timeout=no_timeout)

And I think your solution is sth like below the code snippet:

from urllib3 import Timeout, Poolmanager

timeout = Timeout(connect=10.0, read=None)
http = PoolManager(timeout=timeout)
response = http.request('GET', 'http://example.com/)