CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

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)