Geopy: catch timeout error

Question

I am using geopy to geocode some addresses and I want to catch the timeout errors and print them out so I can do some quality control on the input. I am putting the geocode

Answer 1

Try this:

from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
from geopy.exc import GeocoderTimedOut

my_address = '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500'

geolocator = Nominatim()
try:
    location = geolocator.geocode(my_address)
    print(location.latitude, location.longitude)
except GeocoderTimedOut as e:
    print("Error: geocode failed on input %s with message %s"%(my_address, e.message))

You can also consider increasing the timeout on the geocode call you are making to your geolocator. In my example it would be something like:

location = geolocator.geocode(my_address, timeout=10)

or

location = geolocator.geocode(my_address, timeout=None)