add requests timeout value - prevent infinitely hanging requests

[innateessence]

This MR allows users to specify a timeout value for requests. An excerpt from the creators of the request library:
Nearly all production code should use this parameter in nearly all requests. Failure to do so can cause your program to hang indefinitely.

https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#timeouts

Might be worth setting a default value for this.

I think:

if request_timeout is None:
    request_timeout = (10, 30)

is reasonable but I omitted that

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[innateessence]

@xente Looks like some check in the CI/CD pipeline isn't passing, if this is an issue that's blocking merging this change, let me know.

Also, if you'd like anything changed, lmk

[xente]

Hi @innateessence sorry late response.

I have disabled sonarqube by the moment.

Looks like that your change has conflicts. Can you rebase from main, add into the README the new parameter and update the pr?