How to set timeout for http.Get() requests in Golang?

Question

I\'m making a URL fetcher in Go and have a list of URLs to fetch. I send http.Get() requests to each URL and obtain their response.

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Answer 1

If you want to do it per request, err handling ignored for brevity:

ctx, cncl := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), time.Second*3)
defer cncl()

req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, "https://google.com", nil)

resp, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)