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Python's ConnectTimeout exception is caused when connection can't be established fast enough. Here's how to fix it.

Python requests.ReadTimeout is caused when resources cannot be read fast enough. Here's how to fix it.

Python "requests.MissingSchema" exception is usually caused by a missing protocol part in the URL. Most commonly when relative URL is used.

Python's requests.SSLError is caused when encryption certificates mismatch for HTTPS type of URLs. Here's how to fix it.

Python's requests.TooManyRedirects exception is raised when server continues to redirect >30 times. Here's how to fix it.

Python requests supports many proxy types and options. Here's how to configure most proxy options for web scraping.

Python requests library is a popular HTTP client and here's how to install it using pip, poetry and pipenv.

To save session between script runs we can save and load requests session cookies to disk. Here's how to do in Python requests.