Set custom timeout

[mtsardakas]

It looks like it's not possible the modify the default timeout value, either at client instantiation (serpapi.Client) or when passing params to it. This is vital as the default value of 90 seconds is not enough for a significant subset of engine/parameter combos. Thanks a lot :)

[alexbarron]

@mtsardakas Thank you for reporting this. Do you have sample searches where the response time was longer than 90 seconds? If so, please provide those search IDs either here or you can email them to contact@serpapi.com

From what I understand, we return a timeout error whenever a query hits 90 seconds. Therefore you shouldn't see any queries taking more than 90 seconds. Please correct me if I'm wrong though.

[jvmvik]

Hey,

Originally I was planning to add timeout to the version 0.2.0 based on aiohttp.
but a version 0.1.6 was introduced with the timeout support which is really just a parameter pass to requests library.

import serpapi
# A default timeout can be set here.
client = serpapi.Client(api_key=os.getenv("API_KEY"), timeout=10)
try:
    results = client.search({
        'engine': 'google',
        'q': 'coffee',
    })
except serpapi.HTTPError as e:
    # ... handle HTTP errors ...
except serpapi.TimeoutError as e:
    # Handle timeout
    print(f"The request timed out: {e}")