Urllib2 Connection Timed Out Error

I am trying to open a page using urllib2 but i keep getting connection timed out errors. The line which i am using is: f = urllib2.urlopen(url) exact error is: URLError:

Solution 1:

urllib2 respects robots.txt. Many sites block the default User-Agent.

Try adding a new User-Agent, by creating Request objects & using them as arguments for urlopen:

importurllib2request= urllib2.Request('http://www.example.com/')
request.add_header('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux i686)')

response = urllib2.urlopen(request)

Several detailed walk-throughs are available, such as http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/urllib2/

Solution 2:

As a general strategy, open wireshark and watch the traffic generated by urllib2.urlopen(url). You may be able to see where the error is coming from.

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