Requests has stopped working

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Hi My streamlit app has worked fine periodically fails with the following error. I am running in the cloud but interestingly it works fine locally and has worked OK for long periods in the cloud

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Any help would be appreciated

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Hey there, thanks for sharing your question and all the details! :blush: When your Streamlit app works locally but periodically fails on Streamlit Community Cloud with a requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout error, it usually means the app is unable to reach an external service (like an API or database) within the allowed time. This can be due to network latency, stricter outbound connection limits, or temporary network issues on the cloud platform. The error is not specific to Streamlit itself, but rather to the requests library timing out while waiting for a response from the target URL.

To address this, you can try increasing the timeout value in your requests call, add retry logic, and ensure the external service is accessible from Streamlit Cloud (sometimes you may need to allowlist Streamlit Cloud’s IPs on the external service). Also, check that your app isn’t hitting resource limits, as this can cause slowdowns and timeouts—see the Streamlit resource limits guide for optimization tips. If the issue persists, review your app’s Cloud logs for more context and consider implementing error handling to gracefully manage timeouts.

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