Python - Playwright timeout

Question

I'm using Playwright to upload a file and download the result. When the inputfiles are large, and it takes a long time to process I get a timeout from playwright; it takes to long for the button "Download" to appear.

    raise exception
playwright._impl._api_types.TimeoutError: Timeout 30000.0ms exceeded while waiting for event "download"
=========================== logs ===========================
waiting for event "download"
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How can I let playwright wait longer on that specific event?

with page.expect_download() as download_info:
    page.locator("text=Download").click()
    #todo: wait longer?
download = download_info.value
# expect(page).to_have_url("http://localhost:8080/swagger/#/NER/post_ner")
path = download.path()
suggested_filename = file_out
download.save_as(suggested_filename)

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '22 at 13:41

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If you know that the click will take a while, you can set a timeout:

page.locator("text=Download").click(timeout=60000)

answered Jul 06 '22 at 13:41

hardkoded

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Adding on, remember that the timeout is in ms. – Charchit Agarwal Jul 06 '22 at 16:55
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I tried this: age.locator("text=Download").click(timeout=120000), but it's ignored. I get the same error message: playwright._impl._api_types.TimeoutError: Timeout 30000.0ms exceeded while waiting for event "download" This worked: page.set_default_timeout(timeout=120000) – Tralala Jul 07 '22 at 04:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '22 at 18:08

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You can also set the timeout to 0 if your not concerned with it taking too long. Though this can lead to it potentially taking hours...or never end if it gets stuck loading. A timeout of some value other than 0 is probably best practice.

page.locator("text=Download").click(timeout=0)

answered Jul 27 '22 at 18:08

pynoob

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I tried that, was also ignored. Thanks for your reply. – Tralala Jul 28 '22 at 09:09

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 13 '23 at 15:33

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Not sure if this will help, but I have used the code below successfully many times:

with page.expect_download(timeout=0) as download_info:

Setting timeout=0 causes it to wait for as long as it takes to download.

answered Feb 13 '23 at 15:33

Adrian

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Python - Playwright timeout

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