ImgKit takes a long time to convert an html file to a jpg file (3 minutes)

[MahdeenSky]

imgkit.from_file(html_filename, image_filename, options={"width": 660, "disable-smart-width": ""})
is what I ran, and for some reason, at most times, this will take 3 minutes to run, and just yesterday, and only for yesterday, was it running at around 3 to 10 secs. The html, I am trying to render, is not important to mention, as the same problem happens with "www.google.com", about 3 minutes as well. I am running on Ubuntu 20.04.

Extra Detail:
for most of the time, there is no output in the console, and only in the last few seconds, the output appears

Loading page (1/2)
Rendering (2/2)                                                    
Done                                                               

[MahdeenSky]

When i keyboard interrupt in the middle, the function appears to be stuck within what appears to be a timeout.

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 11, in <module>
    html_to_image("result.html", "result.jpg")
  File "test.py", line 6, in html_to_image
    imgkit.from_file(html_filename, image_filename, options={"width": 660, "disable-smart-width": ""})
  File "/home/smi/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imgkit/api.py", line 64, in from_file
    return rtn.to_img(output_path)
  File "/home/smi/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imgkit/imgkit.py", line 225, in to_img
    stdout, stderr = result.communicate(input=string)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1024, in communicate
    stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1866, in _communicate
    ready = selector.select(timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/selectors.py", line 415, in select
    fd_event_list = self._selector.poll(timeout)

[jarrekk]

How about the time duration for other sites?

[trae-horton]

So I just opened a new issue and it might be related to this:

#77

The conversation finally completed but I have no idea how long it took due to leaving it over night. I attached the .html to issue 77. I think if we had a timeout flag for embedded URLs in the HTML may fix our issues but idk.

[trae-horton]

Okay so I found my issue. It ended up being an IPS doing TCP-DROP instead of TCP-REST. In my opinion a flag to declare a timeout for specific TCP connection would be a good idea to prevent slow servers failing to respond to hold up the code. I would imagine that this would be a pretty big feature request though. Going to close out #77

[dreamerhyde]

Any updates? I got the same issues..