How can I increase timeout when using readtable to get csv data from url?

I want to use readtable function to read time series csv file from internet via an url. It works for smaller datasets but when I try to download longer datasets I get an error that the server is not responding and that it might be wise to increase the timeout from 5s to a larger number. How can I do it? I can do it with webread function but not with readtable.

Example that works (short dataset):

url = 'https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v1-1h?parameters=RSX&start=1976-01-01T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&end=1976-12-31T23%3A00%3A00.000Z&station_ids=710&output_format=csv&filename=RH_710';

% Options for reading
opts = delimitedTextImportOptions("NumVariables",3,'Delimiter',{','});
opts.Encoding = 'latin1';
opts.VariableNames = ["dateS", "stationID","dataV"];
opts.VariableTypes = ["string","double","double"];
opts.ExtraColumnsRule = "ignore";
opts.EmptyLineRule = "read";
opts.ConsecutiveDelimitersRule = "join";

% Read data using the identified decimal separator
opts.DataLines = [2,Inf];
opts.VariableTypes = ["string","double","double"];
dataTb = readtable(url,opts);

Example that does not work (long dataset):

url = 'https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v1-1h?parameters=RSX&start=1976-01-01T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&end=2020-12-31T23%3A00%3A00.000Z&station_ids=710&output_format=csv&filename=RH_710';

% Options for reading
opts = delimitedTextImportOptions("NumVariables",3,'Delimiter',{','});
opts.Encoding = 'latin1';
opts.VariableNames = ["dateS", "stationID","dataV"];
opts.VariableTypes = ["string","double","double"];
opts.ExtraColumnsRule = "ignore";
opts.EmptyLineRule = "read";
opts.ConsecutiveDelimitersRule = "join";

% Read data using the identified decimal separator
opts.DataLines = [2,Inf];
opts.VariableTypes = ["string","double","double"];
dataTb = readtable(url,opts);

Thank you

Answer 1

[Jasper Gerritsen]

You can have webread use your readtable options and increase the Timeout variable to e.g. 20 seconds as follows:

myReadTable = @(x) readtable(x, opts); 
webopts = weboptions('ContentReader', myReadTable, 'Timeout', 20); 
dataTb = webread(url, webopts);

Kind regards

[Peter Valent]

@Jasper Gerritsen Awesome. Thank you.