requests.get timeout code example

Example 1: python requests.get timeout

# Here is how to set a time out for requests.get in python
# its simple!
import requests

link = 'https://google.com' 
request_from_link = requests.get(link, timeout=10) 
# this causes the code to call a timeout if the connection or delays in 
# between the reads take more than 10 seconds
print(request_from_link)

Example 2: python requests header

url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'
headers = {'user-agent': 'my-app/0.0.1'}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)