# Lambda timeouts when requesting internet resource

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/lambda-timeouts-when-requesting-internet-resource/11096>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** lambda\
**Created:** [April 12, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/lambda-timeouts-when-requesting-internet-resource/11096 "2020-04-12T13:20:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![david-sauvage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@david-sauvage](https://forum.serverless.com/u/david-sauvage)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/lambda-timeouts-when-requesting-internet-resource/11096/1 "2020-04-12T13:20:52Z")

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Hey everyone !

I’m doing a small app using serverless. I’m simply writing some webscraping in an aws lambda in order to retrieve some data with an API Gateway  
The problem is, my lambda returns a timeout (changed the timeout to 30s just to be sure) and I have no clue how to debug this in the context of serverless.

Here is my lambda :

```
import json
from lambda_decorators import cors_headers
import requests

@cors_headers
def handler(event, context):
    print("Was called with params : " + str(event))
    teamId = event["queryStringParameters"]['team_id']
    print(teamId)
    body = callNbaStatsApi(teamId)
    return {
        'statusCode': 200,
        'body': body
    }

def callNbaStatsApi(teamId):
    print("Start callNbaStatsApi")
    nbaStatsUrl = 'https://stats.nba.com/stats/teamdashboardbygeneralsplits?DateFrom=&DateTo=&GameSegment=&LastNGames=0&LeagueID=00&Location=&MeasureType=Base&Month=0&OpponentTeamID=0&Outcome=&PORound=0&PaceAdjust=N&PerMode=PerGame&Period=0&PlusMinus=N&Rank=N&Season={0}&SeasonSegment=&SeasonType=Regular+Season&ShotClockRange=&Split=general&TeamID={1}&VsConference=&VsDivision='
    headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0',
        'x-nba-stats-origin': 'stats',
        'Referer': 'https://stats.nba.com/',
    }
    url = nbaStatsUrl.format('2019-20', teamId)
    print(url)
    r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    print(r)
    print("End callNbaStatsApi")
    return r.json()

if __name__ == " __main__":
    print(callNbaStatsApi('1610612749'))

```

I notice two things :

- When calling the python script on my own laptop the request works and print the nba data.
- When the request goes to [http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com) it does work inside of the aws lambda environment.

With all this, I suppose there is something that makes [https://stats.nba.com](https://stats.nba.com) unavailable but I don’t know what.

Also, since it can be a problem, I have no VPC configuration on my lambda

The real question here is simply : how would you work to debug such a behavior ?

Thank you for your time 🙂

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**Author:** ![crushingCodes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/crushingcodes/32/6535_2.png) [@crushingCodes](https://forum.serverless.com/u/crushingCodes)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/lambda-timeouts-when-requesting-internet-resource/11096/2 "2022-01-26T14:50:46Z")

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@david-sauvage Did you have any luck with this, I am facing a similar issue