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Problem in node 'HTTP Request' - timeout of 300000ms exceeded

platform: n8n / category: Timeout / code: ECONNABORTED

Cause

The target API did not respond within n8n's default 5-minute (300000 ms) HTTP timeout window.

Fix

Open the HTTP Request node, click 'Add Option', and set a higher 'Timeout' value in milliseconds. If the API is genuinely slow, split large payloads into smaller batches with a Loop node so each request completes faster. On self-hosted instances set N8N_HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT to override the global default.

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