Upload file timeout for >200mb file

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Hello,
I’m trying to upload a big file (>200mb) to be used in an assistant rag system and after a minute or so I’m getting a timeout error.
Is there any way to increase the timeout? 1min doesn’t seem reasonable for files up to 500mb.

Thanks in advance

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Welcome to the community!

you’re saying the OpenAI API call is timing out?

Does it time out only for retrieval, or does it time out for any API call? I thought the timeout counter is usually set by the producer of the API call, but I could be wrong. I don’t think there’s a way to change the timeout counter, but I’m wondering if this is a network issue

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Thanks for your reply.
actually, I was able to solve the issues by changing the timeout at Open ai client level, I’ll leave it here since it can help other people as well:

from httpx import Timeout
from openai import OpenAI
OpenAI(timeout=Timeout(60, connect=5))

Thanks for the help once again.

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