[FIXED] Retry Request.get() Python

Issue

How do I retry the same requests.get() after 5 seconds? The timeout argument ends the program itself if connection is timed out over 5 seconds.

page2 = requests.get(url, timeout=5.000)

Solution

If your's problem is that the requests.get doesn't wait enough time, you can set the timeout argument to more then 5 seconds.

If not, as @jheld mention, you can take the approach of the try-except, like this:

response = None
try:
    response = requests.get(SITE_URL, timeout=5)
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
    try:
        response = requests.get(SITE_URL, timeout=5)
    except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
        pass

Answered By - Yuval Pruss