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Converting to an enhancement request.

Any update on the status of this enhancement?

Fails for UrlFetches to far-away places like China. Making it configurable would be useful -- or reporting it as an actual timeout would help as well.

I also need this feature, any update on the status ?

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Any update on this feature request, Its really important for us to have this feature

I'm seeing the opposite issue lately.  The UrlFetchApp.fetch call is taking far too long, the worst today is 257sec.  I'd like to set a 10-30sec timeout and stop these calls from using up all of my time-based quotas.  There must be an issue with this function as manually calling these urls is much faster, typically a second or less.      

Yes, I need a configurable timeout to prevent a single long running fetch from eating up all the time-based quota.

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I see the same bahaviour, that the timeout happens now after several minutes.
Also my UrlFetchApp.fetch() call aborted after more than 4 Minutes (!) today with an timeout!
According to the google error mail ("summary of failures of google apps script"), there must be also UrlFetchApp.fetch() calls taking more than 9 Minutes ("script exceeded maximum execution time").
This is consuming up all my daily CPU-time, very frustating :-((

This would be a great feature, since max execution time for a trigger is 1h or 3h a day in pro plan and if a ressource doesn't respond it does eventually timeout after 5 minutes. It would be much better if we could timeout the request and try later to better optimize our ressources.

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Any update on this feature request? Would help out a lot within a very large and important application. Thanks.

yes, I need the same.  Yes, please increase timeout to 5 mins at least.

It's hard to take App Script as a serious framework when this basic functionality is missing...

a single fetch that times out eats up a good chunk of the time quota and makes a script run slow. Time out needs to be configurable

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Would really need this enhancement too

Yes, please I need this too.

I need this functionality. We were moving our code from vba to google app script, now with this limitation we can´t.

Also need to be able to decrease this!  When a website is down, the long timeouts can kill the computer time quota for the day, rendering my script useless!

Same here. A must have, also making timeout shorter (for services that take a long time to send a response. This in conjunction with max execution time of 5 minutes. Thanks.

Same comment as others. If a service goes offline, it can chew up your quota for the day very quickly.

I really need this extension too.

Configurable timeout would be preferred, even though I would manage with just extending the timeout.

Any update?

Is this still not implemented?

I have the same problem. Need to have configurable timeout

it saddens me that this discussion has gone on for 3 years - has this really not be solved yet!? this is a key feature that I need to use scripts in a real system, please add some level of configurability for timeouts!

Any updates on this yet ? Wondering why is this so difficult ?

Seems that the timeout feature is not yet implemented (3 years since the first change request).
Is there maybe a workaround to overcome this issue?

Imedanasyidashvili @gmail.com

With the advent of UrlFetchApp.fetchAll, being able to manage timeouts becomes even more of an issue. It's basically broken behaviour to have it timeout without any way of handling it, and now with fetchAll any one of those requests timing out will render the whole operation as having timed out.

I agree.  This is not a FeatureRequest, it's really a bug...

Any update on this? This is really important feature.

Is there any update on this?

Anyone? Beuler? This has been open for 4+ years with no motion yet continues to cause problems for many.

Any updates ?

If Add-on cross the execution timing(above 30s) throw the exception, how to handle these error message. Because I'm using try/catch again same issue rises.

+1 - being able to manually time out fetch requests would be ideal.
scenario: fetching several URLs, one request tries to fetch an unresponsive site. the script is suspended until the response is returned, which usually takes over 1 minute.
it would be so helpful to be able to set a time to return the fetch request, even without a response.
thanks!

This would be EXTREMELY useful!
PLEASE IMPLEMENT THIS, PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE!!!!

I'm getting a 1 minute timeout for requests in data studio. Please allow to extend the timeout!

Yes, I also need to configure the timeout. I'm working with GAS for requesting the Google URL Testing Tools API. It takes around 1-1,5min to get all data (performing the screenshot).

   I am new to Gmail Add-ons, facing the timeout issue UrlFetchApp.fetch() method. Cross the time limit call particular API in above 60s at this time doesn't handle the exceptions, also using the try/catch but doesn't handle.How is it over come this?
   Sorry for my bad English.

I would prefer we get a parameter to adjust it, as for standard HTTP requests 1 minute is an eternity.
Something to the tune of  UrlFetchApp.fetch('https://www.google.com', { timeout: 3000 }) much like the already existing UrlFetchApp.fetch('https://www.google.com', { muteHttpExceptions: true})

Keep dreaming. This is almost 6 years old. I don't understand why Google doesn't simply mark this as "won't fix", but it does not surprise me, I am subscribed to several issues in the same situation for years.

any updates ? ;-)

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Would love to have more granular control / visibility on timeout

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And here we are in 2020 without so much as a single response from Google.   Hello, testing, 1, 2, 3.  Is this thing on?

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In case it hasn't been said already (in the many, many comments), I need to be able to LIMIT the time, not extend it.

I have the same request.
I also want to LIMIT the timeout. Not extend it.

My script makes calls to an IoT device, which is sometimes offline.
UrlFetchApp.fetch expires at around 50 seconds. If my device is online, it would respond within 2 seconds required for the entire script to complete.
Even with a conservative timeout, I can set it to 5 seconds and my device would respond within that time, if online. If it doesn't I don't wish to continue trying for another 45 seconds.

At present, because of the global quota of 90 mins/day, I have to limit my trigger frequency accordingly.

Same here, allow us to configure the timeout.  In my case I want to shorten it, but that is irrelevant to fixing the problem.

This still isn't done? LMAO!

 "Unexpected error : Timeout http://blablabla...." Occur

I am not sure as same but its similar . My script was fetch the large report(html text only) as blob/html file and save it in drive. The little trick is error should occur after 3 minutes every time during fetching, I added line "cache-control": "max-age=0" in header during fetch, no more error and the file fetched. Problem is the fetch was seems still stopped on every 3 minutes, affect the html file incomplete. So what is going on.

My Log:
[20-11-11 20:17:40:174 PST] Before Fetch
[20-11-11 20:20:40:209 PST] After Fetch

My script :
//The script is working if smaller size report to fetch and complete within 3 minutes.
//some dataOptions may not necessary

function myfun(){
  var dataURL = 'https://someblablabla/report.php';  
  let form = "some payload here";  
  const dataHeaders = {    
    "cache-control": "max-age=0",      
    'Cookie' : "some cookie like login id/pw",    
    'Origin' : 'https://someblablabla'
   };
  const dataOptions = {  
    'Host' : 'someblablabla',
    'method':'get',
    'timeout' : '0',
    'contentType': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',    
    'headers':dataHeaders,        
    'payload' : form,    
    'useIntranet': false,    
    'validateHttpsCertificates': true,
    'followRedirects' : true,
    'mode': 'navigate',      
    'muteHttpExceptions' : true,
    'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked'    
   };
  Logger.log("Before Fetch")
  var dataResponse = UrlFetchApp.fetch(dataURL,dataOptions);
  Logger.log("After Fetch")
  var data = dataResponse.getAs('text/html');
  var folder = DriveApp.getFolderById('yourfolderid');
  folder.createFile(data);
}  

me too.. why urlfetch has timeout ,..p lease extend..

I would like configuration too. Stops a single request going for 100 seconds and eating too much of my time execution quota.

I too would like to see an option to control timeout, not so much to extend but shorten.

Let's go for a 10 year long ticket, shall we? :)). Obviosuly I could use a timeout option as well.

+1 for 10y long ticket ;) . I need the timeout as well obviously.

This is the issue that keeps on giving!  It's my semi-regular reminder that I really dodged a bullet when deciding not to use Apps Script for anything serious.  It's obvious that Apps Script was created merely to tick a box in the feature list so the sales guys could claim GApps had feature parity with Microsoft's offerings.

Good luck petitioning the gods to implement this feature.  I'll eat a sock if this ticket ever gets an official Google response.

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+1, One of the main reasons why i'll be switching away from apps script

+1, can't believe it is not resolved yet !

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Just checking back to make sure that there isn't any progress on this.  I'm locked at a 6 minute timeout - would love to make it lower.

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7 years later...

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I reached out to Workspace support and they do in fact have an internal feature request for this issue. Internally, the request is #131685592. If you have connections with Google Support, they should be able to provide updates on the status of this feature.

As of today, the request has been routed to the product engineering team but they have not provided an ETA for a solution.

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We need a configurable timeout as well as async downloading without the complexities of FetchAll. The year is 2022.

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My god.
I wrote this ticket almost 9 YEARS ago.
It has 139 upvotes (and counting) and over 100 supporting comments.
WHADDAYA HAVE TO DO?

^^ And I'm still following it hoping they "eventually do something".  

Hello from 2023

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yeah that or axios library

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Need to limit.

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This is freaking pathetic :D

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+1 Please we need this feature asap

At least it's assigned... will it ever get delivered? Does the person this was assigned to even still work at Google?

Relative to the age of the universe, a decade (soon) is still within the realm of ASAP...
I've stopped developing in Apps Script for a long time (I'm comment #9)  but this thread keeps reminding me what I once knew :D

Please i need this lo necesitamos, incrementen el tiempo de llamado a fetchURl

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I need to reduce timeout to avoid losing time.

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OpenAI API takes too long to respond, we all need this to accommodate the GPT hype train!!!!

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+1 I want to control time out because App Script (Spreadsheet) has a 6 mins timeout. And I want to make sure I'll not hit that limit.
GPT Sometimes takes too long for the answer

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It would be better to have the timeout as a param/option to the fetch function.

Sometimes I might expect a request to fail fast and continue with another path.

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