How to cancel an UrlFetchApp.fetch after specified time?

Question

When using UrlFetchApp.fetch in a loop there are some URLs that take much longer than others and fail.

• Is there any way to cancel or break out of the loop before the fetch erros out?
• Does UrlFetchApp.fetch has a timeout parameter?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

There is no good way to do this. We do not have a way to specify a timeout in the UrlFetchApp HTTP call params - https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/url-fetch/url-fetch-app#fetch(String,Object)

You should log an enhancement request in the Issue Tracker with details of your use case - https://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/list