Python - requests fail silently - python-requests

Question

import requests
is working properly for all my requests, like so:
url = 'http://www.stackoverflow.com'
response = requests.get(url)
bur the following url does not return any results:
url = 'http://www.billboard.com'
response = requests.get(url)
it stalls and fails silently, returning nothing.
how do I force requests into throwing me an exception response,
so I can know if I'm being blacklisted or else?

Answer 1

Requests won't raise an exception for a bad HTTP response, but you could use raise_for_status to raise a HTTPError exception manually, example:
response = requests.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
Another option is status_code, which holds the HTTP code.
response = requests.get(url)
if response.status_code != 200:
print('HTTP', response.status_code)
else:
print(response.text)
If a site returns HTTP 200 for bad requests, but has an error message in the response body or has no body, you'll have to check the response content.
error_message = 'Nothing found'
response = requests.get(url)
if error_message in response.text or not response.text:
print('Bad response')
else:
print(response.text)
If a site takes too long to respond you could set a maximum timeout for the request. If the site won't respond in that time a ReadTimeout exception will be raised.
try:
response = requests.get(url, timeout=5)
except requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout:
print('Request timed out')
else:
print(response.text)

Answer 2

with:
import requesocks
#Initialize a new wrapped requests object
session = requesocks.session()
#Use Tor for both HTTP and HTTPS
session.proxies = {'http': 'socks5://localhost:9050',
'https': 'socks5://localhost:9050'}
#fetch a page that shows your IP address
response = session.get('https://www.billboard.com')
print(response.text)
I was able to get:
raise ConnectionError(e)
requesocks.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.billboard.com', port=None): Max retries exceeded with url: https://www.billboard.com/