timeout function

[NannoSilver]

An idea for a future improvement.
Years ago something similar has been suggested by somebody else for pytube.

Simple operations sometimes take a lot of time to be completed. In many cases is easier just cancel and run again, to get the result very fast.

Nowadays I am using the library func-timeout to limit the execution time for a given operation and backoff to retry. This works, but is not very convenient as it needs additional functions to keep the processing under control.

timeout is supported by requests, so likely not very hard to implement.

Here an example of how the code with timeout can be:

from pytubefix import YouTube

youtube_episode_id = '3p6DEyF5LZM'

url = f'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={youtube_episode_id}'
yt = YouTube(url, timeout=5)

print(yt.title)
print(yt.author)