Python requests error 10060

Question

I have a script that crawls a website. Untill today it ran perfect, However it does not do so now.

it give sme the following error:

 Connection Aborted Error(10060 ' A connection attempt failed becvause the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established a connection failed because connected host has failed to respond'

I have been looking into answers ans settings but i cannot figure out how to fix this...

In IE i am not using any Proxy (Connection -> Lan Settings-> Proxy = Disabled)

it breaks in this piece of code, somethimes the first run, somethimes the 2nd.. and so on

def geturls(functionurl, runtime):
startCrawl = requests.get(functionurl, headers=headers)
mainHtml = BeautifulSoup(startCrawl.content, 'html.parser')
mainItems = mainHtml.find("div",{"id": "js_multiselect_results"})
for tag in mainItems.findAll('a', href=True):
    tag['href'] = urlparse.urljoin(url,tag['href'])
    if shorturl in tag['href'] and tag['href'] not in visited:
        if any(x in tag['href'] for x in keepout):
            falseurls.append(tag['href'])
        elif tag['href'] in urls:
            doubleurls.append(tag['href'])
        else:
            urlfile.write(tag['href'] + "\n")
            urls.append(tag['href'])

totalItemsStart = str(mainHtml.find("span",{"id": "sab_header_results_size"}))
if runtime == 1:
    totalnumberofitems[0] = totalItemsStart
    totalnumberofitems[0] = strip_tags(totalnumberofitems[0])
return totalnumberofitems

How can i fix this?

Solution

Try increasing the timeout parameter of your requests.get method :

requests.get(functionurl, headers=headers, timeout=5)

But the odds are that your script is being blocked by the server to prevent scrapping attempts . If this is the case you can try faking a web browser by setting appropriate headers .

{"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 GTB7.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)", "Referer": "http://example.com"}

Comments

[brian]

I haven't got the timeout parameter but I do have the headers, (hence headers=headers). What I don't have is the .net and referer parameter. What does referer do?