Timeout a file download with Python urllib?

Question

Python beginner here. I want to be able to timeout my download of a video file if the process takes longer than 500 seconds.

import urllib
try:
   urllib.ur         


        

Answer 1

Although urlretrieve does not have this feature, you can still set the default timeout (in seconds) for all new socket objects.

import socket
import urllib    

socket.setdefaulttimeout(15)

try:
   urllib.urlretrieve ("http://www.videoURL.mp4", "filename.mp4")
except Exception as e:
   print("error")