UrlFetchApp timeout

Question

I'm trying to download some reports using Google Sheets.

So basically I'm using UrlFetchAppto do the job and it does when the response is received within 1 minute. If the response is taking more than a minute then the request times out and the reports are not downloaded.

This is the options that I'm sending with UrlFetchApp:

var options = {
  "method" : "post",
  "header" : "someHeaders",
  "muteHttpExceptions" : true,
  "followRedirects" : false,
  "Content-Encoding" : "gzip",
  "payload" : "somePayload"
}

and then a simple call of .fetch().

Is there a way to increase the timeout or any workaround for it?

Answer 1

Although it's not publicly documented, I realized by testing that fetch functions for UrlFetchApp [1] have a 1 minute timeout. There's a Feature Request open to extend or allow to configure the UrlFetchApp timeout [2].

[1] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/url-fetch/url-fetch-app

[2] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36761852