Python requests module is very slow on specific machine

Question

I\'ve experienced too slow execution of Python requests on some machines and with specific user while other tools (for instance curl) are quite fast. Strange thing is that i

Answer 1

There could be many things slowing the request down. Anything from DNS lookup, throttling etc.

Try getting some more information by turning requests debug logging on

logging.basicConfig() 
logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
requests_log = logging.getLogger("requests.packages.urllib3")
requests_log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
requests_log.propagate = True