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

Set the timeout parameter:

r = requests.get(w, verify=False, timeout=10) # 10 seconds

As long as you don't set stream=True on that request, this will cause the call to requests.get() to timeout if the connection takes more than ten seconds, or if the server doesn't send data for more than ten seconds.