Max retries exceeded with URL in requests

Question

Just use requests' features:

import requests
from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
from requests.packages.urllib3.util.retry import Retry


session = requests.Session()
retry = Retry(connect=3, backoff_factor=0.5)
adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
session.mount('http://', adapter)
session.mount('https://', adapter)

session.get(url)

This will GET the URL and retry 3 times in case of requests.exceptions.ConnectionError. backoff_factor will help to apply delays between attempts to avoid to fail again in case of periodic request quota.

Take a look at requests.packages.urllib3.util.retry.Retry, it has many options to simplify retries.

What happened here is that itunes server refuses your connection (you're sending too many requests from same ip address in short period of time)

Max retries exceeded with url: /in/app/adobe-reader/id469337564?mt=8

error trace is misleading it should be something like "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it".

There is an issue at about python.requests lib at Github, check it out here

To overcome this issue (not so much an issue as it is misleading debug trace) you should catch connection related exceptions like so:

try:
    page1 = requests.get(ap)
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
    r.status_code = "Connection refused"

Another way to overcome this problem is if you use enough time gap to send requests to server this can be achieved by sleep(timeinsec) function in python (don't forget to import sleep)

from time import sleep

All in all requests is awesome python lib, hope that solves your problem.

Just do this,

Paste the following code in place of page = requests.get(url):

import time

page = ''
while page == '':
    try:
        page = requests.get(url)
        break
    except:
        print("Connection refused by the server..")
        print("Let me sleep for 5 seconds")
        print("ZZzzzz...")
        time.sleep(5)
        print("Was a nice sleep, now let me continue...")
        continue

You're welcome :)

pip install pyopenssl seemed to solve it for me.

https://github.com/requests/requests/issues/4246